how about fixing the problem, instead of just making it so they don't bother you? the problem? education and poverty.
Why does this remind me so much of soma from Huxley's 'Brave New World'..
To be honest, I like the idea of drug users being punished by ODing on the drugs due to excessive availability, but this is unrealistic, and only a sick an twisted dream, where we enjoy drug users' suffering. Don't get me wrong - I agree completely, but it is immoral and unjustifiable, and way too expensive in short term.
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That would be the tyranical nature in which we approach the problem now. Also, did you know on average white people get less time for drug offenses than black or mexican people? Funny little system. And the OP is right about the cost. 50 billion dollars spent on the War on Drugs in 2007 so far. None of thats pork Im sure.Spark wrote:
Why don't you go join the Nazi Party while you're at it?
ill say this, you want to stop drugs, you have to come up with a way to get people to believe that money is not all that important. if you want to stop crime in america or reduce its levels, you got to improve the educational system/ economic system in this country.
people steal/ people do and sell drugs because the system has failed them over and over to offer them some kind of worth. why is the crime/ homeless levels in europe so damn freakin low= because the govt takes care of them even if the average family in europe makes only 1/4 of the income of a middle class family in the US. the tax system in Sweden sucks ass, but everyone has good health care/
its legal to smoke marijuana in the Netherlands, but it is illegal in the US to do so. the war on drugs has failed way too many times. and dont say Colombians are the sources when countries like Russia, France, India are doing the same thing. people do drugs because they feel unhappy in life. we have become a society / already a society where we put faith and hope in things that dont last. reducing the economic and social problems in the US is the only way we can stop drug pushers from taking our kids away.
Laurence Fisburne in "the boyz in the hood" said something ill never forget. he said that there is drugs, gangs and alcholism in Compton, but when you go to LA or some rich area like Malibu, you barely see any of that. there is more drugs and violence where the average home income is below 20K per year. you dont see that in Malibu beach or some rich area in the US. think about it.
people steal/ people do and sell drugs because the system has failed them over and over to offer them some kind of worth. why is the crime/ homeless levels in europe so damn freakin low= because the govt takes care of them even if the average family in europe makes only 1/4 of the income of a middle class family in the US. the tax system in Sweden sucks ass, but everyone has good health care/
its legal to smoke marijuana in the Netherlands, but it is illegal in the US to do so. the war on drugs has failed way too many times. and dont say Colombians are the sources when countries like Russia, France, India are doing the same thing. people do drugs because they feel unhappy in life. we have become a society / already a society where we put faith and hope in things that dont last. reducing the economic and social problems in the US is the only way we can stop drug pushers from taking our kids away.
Laurence Fisburne in "the boyz in the hood" said something ill never forget. he said that there is drugs, gangs and alcholism in Compton, but when you go to LA or some rich area like Malibu, you barely see any of that. there is more drugs and violence where the average home income is below 20K per year. you dont see that in Malibu beach or some rich area in the US. think about it.
Not everyone has a job, here, in the UK, there are 30 people on benefits due to "Spots, or... Acne" and 30,000 or something people on benefits because they are obese.bonedoc69 wrote:
The same way everyone else does. It's called a job.ig wrote:
so how will the drug dealers make money?
There are drugproblems? ....
/lighting my spliff up and drinking a beer after popping some pills.
wait...now I have no drugs left......I see your point....
/lighting my spliff up and drinking a beer after popping some pills.
wait...now I have no drugs left......I see your point....
Some people just do drugs because its fun.
Wouldn't that be because white people are typically abusers, while blacks and mexicans are more frequently dealers, and thus subject to a much wider and much more severe spectrum of punishment?Mason4Assassin444 wrote:
That would be the tyranical nature in which we approach the problem now. Also, did you know on average white people get less time for drug offenses than black or mexican people? Funny little system. And the OP is right about the cost. 50 billion dollars spent on the War on Drugs in 2007 so far. None of thats pork Im sure.Spark wrote:
Why don't you go join the Nazi Party while you're at it?
Education, maybe. Poverty *buzzer*. Look at all the celebs that are on drugs. They're not in poverty, though they are morons.twiistaaa wrote:
how about fixing the problem, instead of just making it so they don't bother you? the problem? education and poverty.
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Lawrence Fishburne is full of crap, specialistx2324. There is plenty of drugs and alcoholism in Malibu and the like, just look at the news every day . . . and they have access to the best education and are in the upper end of income. So it’s obviously not lack of income and lack of education that leads to drug use and alcoholism. If that were the case, why aren’t all poor/lower income people on drugs and all “rich” people clean? Life sucks sometimes, but I don’t go have a pity party because I need money and burn it up with drugs and then piss and moan that it’s someone else’s fault that I don’t have money or opportunity. People choose to do drugs because they’re unhappy, but education and money don’t automatically bring happiness and aren’t the solution.
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I think you mean "a modest proposal"FlemishHCmaniac wrote:
Why does this remind me so much of soma from Huxley's 'Brave New World'..
Selling drugs is a job.bonedoc69 wrote:
The same way everyone else does. It's called a job.ig wrote:
so how will the drug dealers make money?