Cops say legalize drugs ask me why?

Question

Cops say legalize drugs ask me why?
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

None of your logic worked in the sixties and those that rule have gotten more conservative and controlling.

Answer 2

No, pot does not cause cancer. Any study that says it does, links it with tobacco use. Smoking marijuana with tobacco increases rates of cancer compared to people who smoke tobacco alone, but people who smoke only marijuana do not get cancer.

The government also tries to claim that marijuana contains more tar than tobacco. While pound for pound this is true, it is blown out of proportion. A recreational marijuana smoker who smokes one joint a day is smoking as much tar as 3 cigarettes (minus the carcinogens). This may seem like a lot but considering that living in LosAngelas is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day, why does the government not care about that?

I completely agree that as soon as pot is legalized, it becomes much easier to tax, regulate, and inform the public about it.

It is kind of sad how much more efficient of a drug marijuana is than alcohol. Consider buying a 6pack of beer. The beer is produced by distilling hops or what not in the mideast, packaged in glass or aluminum, put in a cardboard box and shipped across the nation where it is put on a shelf and refridgerated until you drive down to the store and buy it. OR.....

you can pick a flower off a plant in your backyard and smoke it.

I WONDER WHICH ONE IS MORE EFFICIENT? (dont forget the hangover from alcohol when you wake up the morning)

Answer 3

Good arguments can't really disagree with it.
Now go & tackle the whole Cancer myth and the American med. assoc.or something.(not kidding) But try a blog & let me know the address. This really didn't look like a question.

Answer 4

If we were face to face, I would applaud. Very nicely put.

I'm very impressed. I've known and told others about all this for some time now, but youve organized it and put it down very well.

Good job.

Answer 5

the only drug that has to be legalized is pot..No harm comes from this plant that god created. look at alcohol and tobacco..how many people die a year from that???? how many people die from pot?? NONE

Answer 6

i just wanna get high. the government turns it into a big fuss

Answer 7

good grief why indeed?? drugs kill