Big Pharma is the biggest drug pusher and they kill more people than everything else put together.
De-criminalize ganja.
For the hard core addicts they can come in everyday and get a shot of methadone. This will stop many of them of having to steal or rob to support their habit. Also they will be less inclined to push drugs and that will slow the rate of new people becoming addicted as many start by associating with drug users.
Since prostitues also use drugs in many cases the profession should also be legalized in a red light area.
As far as ecstacy, they should re-name it, xt. It is not ecstacy.
As far as coke, base cocaine or crack, most of the people need drug rehab similar to alcoholics.
How can they win a war on drugs when they
can't even keep it out of the prisons.
when they hand out pharmacutical drugs like candy.
When they sell alcohol everywhere.
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THE "War on Drugs" Thread (merged)
Re: Wars on Drugs
by manu » Sun 14 Dec 2008, 04:46:01
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Re: Wars on Drugs
by smallpoxgirl » Sun 14 Dec 2008, 08:05:29
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', 'A')h, but I would almost be willing to bet that if you examine the drugs of choice of each of those broad demographics, you would find that the cubicle rats tend toward the legally sanctioned ones
Marijuana, IMHO, is a completely separate issue.
Heroine, cocaine, meth - I just really just don't see those leading to people jogging in the park. I'm not saying they literally go with working in a cubicle. I think they are a pretty gray prison of their own and really don't go along with an interesting, bright, fulfilled life. They are a way to numb yourself and tune out life rather than live it.
"We were standing on the edges
Of a thousand burning bridges
Sifting through the ashes every day
What we thought would never end
Now is nothing more than a memory
The way things were before
I lost my way" - OCMS
Of a thousand burning bridges
Sifting through the ashes every day
What we thought would never end
Now is nothing more than a memory
The way things were before
I lost my way" - OCMS
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Re: Wars on Drugs
by vision-master » Sun 14 Dec 2008, 10:10:58
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'W')hat side do ewe choose?
I'm not sure what that graphic has to do with this topic. Most people I've ever known that were heavily into drugs, it was a way to treat the pain of that cubiclized side. It didn't mean they started living, just that they zoned out and were able to ignore the slow death that is modern "life". Not that I'm endorsing the war on drug users by any means. Create a life that's an intolerable hell and then jail people who seek a means of escape. That's not doing anything good. (Unless you happen to be in the business of selling cop gear, prison space, or crude moral dichotomies.)
Ah, but I would almost be willing to bet that if you examine the drugs of choice of each of those broad demographics, you would find that the cubicle rats tend toward the legally sanctioned ones --which are coincidentally (yea right) the most profitable ones to the system in which they toil, not to mention minimally disruptive of their ability or more importantly, their desire to continue performing within it (and in fact often augment performance through a tendency toward a narrowing of focus) -- and that the creative, individualistic, more self-directed types lean toward those drugs which tend to expand consciousness and lead one to less acquisitive, more inwardly directed lifestyles. Another reason why 'The System' seeks to demonize them, incidentally...
BINGO!
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