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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:42 am
Personaly, I think the US drug policy is insane. It treats pot like its as bad as heroin, and it's cleary not the same thing. Personaly, I think we should take on a drug policy like the Dutch have. The only problem I have with the Dutch policy is that they say it's ilegal to have pot but then have a policy where they won't charge people who have 5 grams of pot on them. And they have no problem with the coffee shops people buy them from, in fact they give them a liscense to have more than 5 grams. However, they do have a problem with the cofee shops' sources. Why not just say pot is legal but regulate it.
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:46 pm
The funniest thing about our government and illegal drugs is how they tested them, LSD in particular. They'd spike random people's drinks with LSD, stick them in a room, and watch them through a one-way mirror.
But anyway, yes, I do believe we are in need of drug reform. Our government is not supposed to act as our parent; we should be able to make the decision ourself as long as we're not harming anyone else.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:49 pm
I don't like Drug Prohibition, and not just marijuana, but I don't see any reason for any unhealthy substances to be illegal. End Drug Prohibition and you save money, empty our prisons, put a dent in organized crime, and give the police something they don't have to focus on. Better to focus on marijuana for the time being though, baby steps. 3nodding Very informative online graphic novel if anyone is interested: A Drug War CarolI've posted it before, but since it's so long I never recieved much of a response for it...
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:28 am
Melchior727 I don't like Drug Prohibition, and not just marijuana, but I don't see any reason for any unhealthy substances to be illegal. End Drug Prohibition and you save money, empty our prisons, put a dent in organized crime, and give the police something they don't have to focus on. Better to focus on marijuana for the time being though, baby steps. 3nodding Very informative online graphic novel if anyone is interested: A Drug War CarolI've posted it before, but since it's so long I never recieved much of a response for it... I used your link. It was awesome.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:48 am
The whole drug war is waste of time and our tax dollars.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:11 pm
weve frightened people away from getting help...they may say that there will be more drug users if we legalize them...but the truth be told it will only look like it. cuz all those drug users who never got caught will be more willing to go to rehab therefore according to statistics there will be more drug users. just like it looks like there are more alcoholics after prohibition. when in reality most of them were in hiding. people love to bend statistics there way to get what they want.
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:01 pm
Lol dudes. DUDES!!! Most of the tax dollars spent on the war on drugs are located to the war on weed. Even though there is increasing amounts of peeps admitting to smoking and all the studies done on it were all flukes.
When I smoke weed im just keepin to myself. Not hurtin noone. Just chillin with my possie. I'm not goin out killin people for more weed money like crackheads, coke addicts, and meth addicts do. No, I'm just smokin a bowl and maybe eatin some food. Whats so wrong with that. Its my choice and im not harming anyone or anything. Just leave me be.
Yet they seem to love paying attention to them lil stoners while the crackheads sneak around the corner.
It seems almost as if they are using weed as an excuse to not pay much attention to the real problem.
Not only that but they view pot smokers a threat to the econemy. That problem is because if it was legal and sold in cofee shops or something them lil stoners would actually be boosting the econemy. But since we're paying drug dealers for the weed. It's not really goin to the econemy.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:39 am
I think they're just being stubborn. I think the government just plain doesn't want to admit that they were wrong about marijuana. Back when Prohobition was repealed, the government wasn't nearaly as focused on appearing all knowing and unquestionable as they are today. Back then, it was ok for the government to say, "Ok, we screwed up." Today, its almost unthinkable that Government Studies could be wrong, or that they were lying to us this whole time to gain support for the "Drug War." I think the whole problem is that Uncle Sam doesn't want to be embarrassed, and so the weed has to stay illeagal.
Also, the War on drugs has given the governemnt a heck of a lot of Unconstitutional, and therefore, illeagal, powers which they make full use of. End the war on drugs, and the basis for a lot of the Gpvernments illeginament power dissapears. Winning the fight against the War on drugs should be one of the LP's Top Priorities.
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:33 am
I did a little homework, in light of the Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program.
Started in 1978, CINDP was created to test medical marijuana on a select group of patients. The program was closed to new entrants in 1991, leaving seven surviving patients receiving government toke today. Two of these patients remain anonymous.
As of March 20th, 2006, the five patients that are not anonymous receive a collective 45 ounces per month. This adds up; CINDP distributes 538 2/3 ounces a year. Assuming that cannabis is $250 an ounce (Office of National Drug Control Policy,) $134,666.67 are being spent on pot a year.
The most recent entrant into the program joined in August 1991. Excluding the anonymous patients, our tax dollars bought a total of $2,154,666.72 in cured MJ.
In a fit of irony, the average annual income for a drug abuse counselor is $56,300.
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