some officers are saying legalize drugs,whats your thoughts?

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, doctors and law enforcement 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, since 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 one season.

However people don’t know the difference between industrial hemp and smokeable 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.
Also people who have any knowledge of growing high quality cannabis will tell you that male plants should never be grown next to your high grade female plants,
(unless of course you want to pollinate for future seed production).
When it comes to farming hemp the males are left in tact to pollinate the females and produce as much seed as possible.

This would mean a seedy mess for the pot smoker to clean up and produce undesirable future generations of smokeable cannabis.

If anything, Hemp farming would be anti marijuana and would harm any outdoor pot farming within a one mile radius of any hemp farm.

The petroleum industry would also be affected, since 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 bio fuel 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.

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Answer 1

LEGALIZE & REGULATE

Answer 2

America has too many silly laws regarding drugs.
The prisons are full.
The thought that drugs are addictive could mean you need help not thrown in prison.
Now America is in Afghanistan, where they are trying to stop the drug production that means money to poor farmers.
They don't need to remove all the laws, just add a little freedom to them

Answer 3

I am all FOR legalization of narcotics. People are going to make use of medicines besides, it isn't a criminal offense(or should not be) to ingest anything you select, its your frame. Prohibition simplest made criminals out of humans that desired a lager. Drug legislation simplest make criminals out of humans that simply desire to get prime. I desire to get prime and I do not desire or want you telling me I can not. I am no longer a crook, have certainly not been in prison, and feature labored all my grownup existence. I must be capable to stroll all the way down to the nearby mini mart and purchase pot if I desire to.

Answer 4

Yes, legalize cannabis. I agree with the statements listed above.

Answer 5

Prison helped my cousin beat his crack addiction. He's now a productive member of society.

Sorry... question details are too long for my A.D.D.
And as far as initial question goes, I'll keep fighting to keep drugs ILLEGAL.

Thanks for asking.

**EDIT** The sentence was about 4 years... it was just the thing necessary to help my cousin help himself. He did, indeed, relapse. Lost custody of his kid. He's back on the right track again, though.

Answer 6

Let's end prohibition, brother. Let's overwhelm the police. let's walk around with joints. Let's make it known that our body is ours. Let's show the pigs that tokin' is indeed subversive.

Answer 7

I do care for my safety and others . So I'm disagree to legalize drugs. Drug addict people are desperate they need help.

Answer 8

good answer scruffy cat I hope it was REALLY LONG SENTENCE he got,and if he relapse's prison will always be there for him.

Answer 9

No.

Go print the Doper propaganda someplace else, please.