Guess we need to make convenience stores illegal… They get held up for MONEY all the time…
How many other asinine laws can we come up with to “prevent” crimes that may never happen…?
While we’re locking everyone up for those crimes we can create an entire industry that profits off of incarcerating Americans thus creating more jobs!
Or we can legalize a lot of these drugs so they can be turned into legitimate markets that can be regulated and taxed… Thus, creating more jobs And also keeping millions of Americans from being institutionalized.
The DAs in NJ think possessing magazines that carry more than 10 rounds in them leads to more crime… Matter of fact they made it a felony to possess them… EVEN IN YOUR OWN HOME!
Luckily, what those DAs think is a law in NJ isn’t law in NC…
Man… It stinks when people went to trounce on your liberty, huh…?
There is just wrong about making a profit from charging money for prison space occupation.
There is just too much temptation for corruption, — plus it only worsens the lives of people (minus those making a buck) — in that kind of deal. Humans get that way sometimes, some humans.
This is beyond disgusting! I label it “inhuman” and unconscionable. And it goes on all the time.
I think everyone can see how privatizing prisons would be a bad idea. If there is a profit incentive to keeping X amount of folks locked up then that number will be very consistent.
I think this is where you have to differentiate between various drugs. Marijuana =/= Meth.
I would venture to guess that the true “addicts” that are stealing and/or committing violent crimes for their addiction are not potheads. That’s cocaine or meth, or opiates.
I won’t say that there’s no addictive qualities of marijuana, but not in the same ballpark as cocaine, meth, opiates, or even (IMO) nicotine and alcohol.
I’ve never figured out where exactly to draw the line on legalization, but to me there’s a clear distinction between marijuana and the meth/cocaine/heroin groups. Hallucinogens like LSD, mushrooms, peyote, are non-addictive, and (IMO) mostly harmless, but not 100% harmless either. You shouldn’t be able to pick those up at the corner Stop & Go like grabbing a beer for the drive home.
I believe the model should be as simple as the village and tribal people used and still do use in places in the world. The state should provide places where the citizenry can come to get there fix ( can like go to the medicine man to get your trip) but the medicine man was the narcotic supplier whom had the knowledge on how to administer the narcotic also was a be spiritualist psychiatrist in trained shamanic ways to help heal the individual by guiding him to what the mental and spiritual problem were to help that individual self heal and to make them a viable function part of the village or tribe in otherwords back to being functional human being within the community. With our modern understanding of the human mind these centers would be full of psychiatrist, theologians and other expert personnel to help the individual overcome the inner demons to where they felt the need to turn to drugs and make them hopefully functional members of the community once again. I know many people are going to disagree with this (think it’s utopian) view along with the perceived tax cost to the state and the seemingly condoning of drug use by the state. It’s drug use provided by the state to get to a end game of no drug or alcohol addiction by the individual period. But we must look at the total cost that we pay as a society now, in the causing of murders, theft of property, child abuse, psychological damage inflicted on others by the addict and their willingness to do what it takes to get their fix, incarceration cost etc. In fact I believe you could shift a lot of the money in state as well federal prisons to these centers. Which would be a zero sum loss to the taxpayers. What we are doing now obviously is not working.
That is old history. The new strains of ganja developed has tremendous THC levels. The heavy smoker gets psychotic, paranoid and there’s quite a bit of schizophrenia happening now. Not your mom’s pot.
I’d like to focus on keeping violent criminals locked up. When that’s under control we can address dope.
When I pull up to an ATM in Houston my thoughts aren’t on dope smokers. I’m just trying to survive the next five minutes.
When we were getting money out of an ATM during Christmas I put my son in the back seat with a Springfield 5.56 NATO…you know, just to take the edge off.
(I know! I know! Why don’t I give him the Geissele SD556 Super Duty Semi-Auto?!?!
Because the damn thing is so long it puts the barrel over my ____ shoulder.)
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Corectomomundo. The latest Colorado statistics posted above are highly concerning. Indeed today’s legal pot is in a different class by itself. The only positive is that the “buyer” knows it is not laced with an “add on”
