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I mean let's talk about it. I don't have any stats, so I'm coming here without preparing myself. My claim is that this whole thing is nothing but a failure and adding to the problem. It's not helping any, it's doing the exact opposite.
I base my argument on the fact that prohibiting something that people want, and people WANT drugs no matter what you say, you are creating a black market.
When you create black market, the criminals will take over those markets. Ok so the old we're not getting tax money when we could be making profit from this. Yes but that's not it alone.
What you really do is you PUSH the criminals do this market because someone will take over, so they're in this new field and they're making money. It's just like the free market .. you have to be in it or you're losing. SO other criminal gangs who had no business in drugs, or no wish to do so, they are being pushed to do it, because if you miss on that, and others get fat and powerful, you're out soon.
So by creating black market for all kinds of drugs, you effectively push all criminals to it, and as a result, we have drug wars between these gangs, that's the REAL drug violence. It's not because some dude took drugs and got upset and hit someone, that's life. But what is extra, is all that violence from that drug trade. All those criminals taking each other out, taking civilians out, blackmailing, bribery, all that crime comes from that.. that's extra and that's a lot and that's the real violence you have to worry about. There's really no other kind of violence that is a problem.
THen there is the moral problem. Why are they illegal in the first place? Let's face it, no one has the God given right to come and tell me what I can do with my body. As long as I'm doing it to myself, you can't stop me and throw me in jail.. ? I mean you can, but that's because things are screwed up.
I base my argument on the fact that prohibiting something that people want, and people WANT drugs no matter what you say, you are creating a black market.
When you create black market, the criminals will take over those markets. Ok so the old we're not getting tax money when we could be making profit from this. Yes but that's not it alone.
What you really do is you PUSH the criminals do this market because someone will take over, so they're in this new field and they're making money. It's just like the free market .. you have to be in it or you're losing. SO other criminal gangs who had no business in drugs, or no wish to do so, they are being pushed to do it, because if you miss on that, and others get fat and powerful, you're out soon.
So by creating black market for all kinds of drugs, you effectively push all criminals to it, and as a result, we have drug wars between these gangs, that's the REAL drug violence. It's not because some dude took drugs and got upset and hit someone, that's life. But what is extra, is all that violence from that drug trade. All those criminals taking each other out, taking civilians out, blackmailing, bribery, all that crime comes from that.. that's extra and that's a lot and that's the real violence you have to worry about. There's really no other kind of violence that is a problem.
THen there is the moral problem. Why are they illegal in the first place? Let's face it, no one has the God given right to come and tell me what I can do with my body. As long as I'm doing it to myself, you can't stop me and throw me in jail.. ? I mean you can, but that's because things are screwed up.
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