I have long
come to the same core conclusion although I am actually far more proactive
regarding the demands put on users to be productive citizens. Addiction is a trap that is difficult for the
victim to escape. Thus intervention
needs to happen. Progressive health
farms that use short session labor as part of the therapy helps achieve those
ends. Here I return to my core idea of a
warm bed, a solid breakfast and four hours grooming woodland followed by a hearty
lunch as a reasonable demand and reward.
After that the individual can make additional choices on his own hook.
All forms of
prohibition actually serve to promote a willing criminal class to exploit the
obviously vulnerable. We learned that
the first time around and we have now taken it the second time around to an
absurd level. Thus it is a good time to
abandon the practice fully.
Cheap drugs
for the addicted or at least well taxed drugs serve to cut out the criminal
class who no longer can promote new victims.
Reagan-Appointed
Judge Wants to Legalize Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, LSD
The Huffington
Post | By Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court judge
nominated by former President Ronald Reagan believes that all illegal drugs
should be decriminalized and regulated by the government.
Richard Posner, who sits on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, writes in The New Republic that he believes
alcohol and tobacco may do more harm than illegal drugs and treats the
legalization of marijuana as inevitable:
The sale and possession of marijuana are en
route to being decriminalized; and I am inclined to think that cocaine, heroin,
methamphetamime, LSD, and the rest of the illegal drugs should be
decriminalized as well -- though not deregulated. They should be regulated by
the Food and Drug Administration for safety, like other drugs, and they should
be taxed heavily, like alcohol and cigarettes. Alcohol and cigarettes are
“recreational” drugs, too -- and quite possibly more destructive of the users
than the illegal drugs are, and, in the case of alcohol, also of acquaintances,
family members, drivers, and pedestrians. The revenue from a sales tax on
marijuana alone would pay for a substantial chunk of the cost of our prison
system.
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