drug legalization (from: GOP talk of military action in Mexico)

[jsbhike]

I’m not sure if my style of writing/sarcasm is the problem here, or if you didn’t really read what I wrote.

I am pointing out the remarkable (but predictable) movement of what drug the pro drug crowd is trying to equate to alcohol. It used to be marijuana, but now that most people think it should be legal you all are comfortable comparing meth and opioids to my drinking a couple beers.

You brought up "gateway drug" and alcohol is frequently the first drug that a person tries.

I have also pointed out that as bad of an effect alcohol has on society, prohibition(which may have lowered the numbers drinking based on lower numbers of cirrhosis cases) was still worse overall due to the crime associated with it as well as tainted alcohol related health problems.

Imagine alcohol was still illegal at the federal level, but your town decided against enforcing laws against alcohol. Now imagine someone brewing up your beers and either not knowing what they were doing or figuring out they could add various chemicals to the process to increase yield or give it more of a kick.

[Todd.K]

You keep missing my point. Legalizing pot has become a gateway to legalizing hard drugs.

People have been making beer for thousands of years. It’s not hard or dangerous. Bad liquor during prohibition came from the government regulations for denaturing.

Liquor is nowhere near as unregulated as most of the legalize drugs crowd thinks, or wants fentanyl to be.

[jsbhike]

You keep missing my point. Legalizing pot has become a gateway to legalizing hard drugs.

People have been making beer for thousands of years. It’s not hard or dangerous. Bad liquor during prohibition came from the government regulations for denaturing.

Liquor is nowhere near as unregulated as most of the legalize drugs crowd thinks, or wants fentanyl to be.

Not missing the point you want to make at all that drugs are bad. One drug that is bad is alcohol. As bad as alcohol is, alcohol prohibtion was even worse.

Alcohol frequently leads to the use of other drugs.

Government decreed denatured alcohol was not the only route to bad alcohol.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon...lead%20content.

[WillBrink]

So, maybe the ridiculous scheduling of MJ is going to change, but that's going to get dragged out and out. Nice to see a GOP Congressman pushing for MJ changes with evidence why it should be done:

[jsbhike]

Narcan addicts.

[WillBrink]

I generally prefer stories from the US because it's the US war on drugs I'm most focused on - which impacts the entire world one way or another - that matters to me mostly. Many (most in my personal experience) LEOs who actually deal with drugs on a ground level conclude drug laws and their enforcement are net negative to society. Most start out feeling one way about drugs and drug users, have a red pill transition, which is always interesting aspect to me. I can't fathom doing that work and the stress levels and dangers involved.

"Successful drug policing just increases the violence" is his conclusion.


Interesting interview: