Cops say legalize drugs ask me why?

Question

Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, and doctors to control cannabis use.

The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful. This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.

Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect. There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.) That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.


Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it’s a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it “ a war on drugs” (Sorry John but it's true look at the Netherlands)

America loves a war even if it is on it’s own people.

One of several reason they don’t legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry, the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don’t drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.

The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it’s possible to get two harvest in in one season.

However people don’t know the difference between industrial hemp and smokable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country’s like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.

The petroleum industry would be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it’s land for hemp production we could create enough biofuel to supply an area the size of Canada.

Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells.
So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.

Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc

or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,

(they would miss there green $$$)

Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Answer 1

Some of the reasons you gave as to why America doesn't legalize cannabis are probabl...yet you seem to be contradicting yourself throughout this question. There are more teens in treatment centers for marijuana than there are for alcohol?? This is just absolutely untrue. And alcohol is not legal because everyone is so "responsible" about it. Alcohol is a drug that kills people more than any other drug combined. It seems as if you're saying "I drink, so alcohol is OK". The carding system has proven time and time again to NOT work. I don't know of one teenager under 14 in my area who haven't had some alcohol. The fact that it's legal just makes it easier to get. You even write "Drugs, not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society", then you go on to say that nobody should be checked for the presence of drugs. I am for now going to imagine you meant "Drugs are NOT the cause of the fundamental ills of society" to which I would say they most definitely are part and parcel of those ills.

It would be lovely if we could test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power but who's to say we'd have unbiased, brilliant, charitable, humane judges? It's simply impossible. You mention schizophrenia as well. Schizophrenia is a genetic disease. The way a person is raised and the environment in which he/she is raised in affect his chances of developing the disease. We have forces of nature and nurture here, for sure. There has been some evidence of a link between marijuana and schizophrenia (researchers certainly have not concluded for sure) and I honestly believe that if America legalizes marijuana, a LOT more kids are going to get their hands on it - which means a lot more people will be at risk of the disease, once suppressed, manifesting itself.

Don't get me wrong, I've used marijuana and I'd like a toke right now (it's been years). Yet I know too that if marijuana was legal I very well may have been a pothead, and it didn't take college degrees to make me come to this conclusion. People I know and love HATE it when I say alcohol should be illegal. I know statistically, however, that the number of deaths in a year would decline greatly. People would have it but it wouldn't be right at their disposal and many would question it more on a moral basis. Kids wouldn't get it from their parents houses or from the 21 year-old down the block who they give extra money to so that he/she will buy it for them. The risks of lung cancer, car accidents, assaults and maiming would decrease. Pot certainly doesn't cause anywhere near as many deaths as alcohol.

I do understand that many people do not know the difference between industrial hemp and smokable cannabis. I couldn't agree with you more in regard to the paper & textile industry. I cannot agree, however, that our prison system would become almost "obsolete" because it is extremely rare that someone selling or using marijuana gets an elongated sentence unless there is a "three strikes" law in effect. The majority of our prisons, as any statistic can tell you, are not inhabited by peaceful pot smokers. Most people who sell pot also sell other drugs, and I have seen that firsthand on a number of occasions.

I find your knowledge of alcohol and its dangers personally upsetting, because I have to bring up children in a world where a drunk driver can come careening around the block any second and run them over. The chances of my children getting hurt in the car with me or on the street is much greater because of alcohol. I have seen too many lives ruined or nearly ruined because of alcohol. You say only an idiot would call it the "#1 problem". Well, then, I'm proud to be such an idiot. In regard to drugs, it is still the greatest problem. I love a drink every now and again but to say it isn't a 'problem' or that 'people are responsible about it' is simply fooling yourself.

I hope this country begins to educate itself about the uses of hemp for paper and petrol. I believe marijuana should be legalized and regulated within the medical community. Making it legal to smoke it, however, is not the answer.

All the best. I know you may disagree but I gave some thought to your question and I hope you can do much the same for my response.

Answer 2

Drugs should be legalized. Here's why: 1) No black market. Undercuts funding for terrorism and a lot of other illegal activities. 2) Control of what goes into drugs. Fewer deaths. 3) If drugs are legal, our prisons would not be overcrowded. 4) Treatment and rehab would be funded from the taxes raised by drug sales.

Answer 3

The War On Drugs is an unwinnable war.

Check out LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition:

http://www.leap.cc/

Answer 4

grown in doors, or in tropical climates, you can get 3 to 4 harvests per twelve month period. that amounts to an astounding statistic: one acre of marijuana is equal to 20 acres of fully matured trees. (that is estimated over a twenty year period, the time it takes for a certain type of tree, {of the most rapidly maturing trees used in production today}, to mature). drugs are consensual crimes (the only person hurt is the user). sure you can say they rob and steal to get drugs, but that is only do to legality and accessibility. the sad thing is that they (uncle SAM and co), try to convince the public that only criminals profit from drugs!!! also, inhaling marijuana smoke is like inhaling an expectorant, (helps you cough up the bad), whereas cigarettes are a coagulant, (clogs the lungs)

Answer 5

Damn Dude, are you writing a Book!
Prohibition, when they tried to ban alcohol, is what made
the Gangstaz Phat in the first place.
Some big chemical company got cannabis put on the
Hit List because you can make so much out of it, and it was competing with their bank account.
I don't think they need to legalize anything. They just need to quit prosecuting it so damn hard!

Answer 6

I don't agree. I was a police officer for almost 10 years and I AM NOT FOR legalizing any drugs. Some of your arguments are valid, but not enough to warrant legalizing another harmful substance in my opinion.

Answer 7

What relevance does legalization of marijuanna have to do with Religion or Spirituality ? Isn't this more of a Pollitical issue or a Social issue?

Answer 8

That wasn't a question, that was a soapbox. I don't disagree with the few things I caught from skimming your horrendously long post, but... this is what blogs are for.

Answer 9

Take the drug dealers out of the equation and you've solved 80% of drug related crimes.

Answer 10

Wow that's a long question...I would answer it but I don't want to read all of that. Oh wait, did you even ask a question or are we supposed to ask you? Hmmm...Why?

EDIT: Oh yeah, plagerism is illegal.