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According to the State Department's annual drug-trafficking report, a federal law took effect in 1985 authorizing the United States to penalize countries that do not control illicit narcotics production. Today, these same countries are now producing larger quantities of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and other drugs, Furthermore, three years after installing a pro-U.S. government, Afghanistan has been unable to contain opium poppy production and is on the verge of becoming a narcotics state. Opium poppy is the raw material for heroin. Colombia is the source of more than 90 percent of the cocaine and 50 percent of the heroin entering the United States. The report also listed Mexico as a major producer of heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana destined for U.S. markets. Source: New York Times and Associated Press.
Some would argue that the only solution would be the legalization of drugs. By removing the criminality of drug sales, possession and usage, the United States government could devote more of its law enforcement resources on other crimes such as murder, rape, assault etc. Furthermore, they argue that regulation of such drugs could create a revenue enhancement for federal, state and local governments. The counter argument suggests that by legalizing drugs, the government grants an implicit consent that drug consumption is morally acceptable. Others argue that the U.S. should focus more on the demand side of the problem by increasing funds for psychiatric and psychological counseling. Their argument is based on the idea that if the individual is properly counseled and medicated, the demand for illegal narcotics would drop significantly. The counter argument is that this solution is cost prohibitive and will only result in replacing one problem with another. Still others offer a more hard-line approach when it comes to dealing with foreign countries such as setting a deadline for the removal of narcotics production. If the deadline passes, the U.S. should utilize various crop-field-burning methods so as to totally obliterate any type of crop production. This would effectively eliminate the central piece of drug production across the planet. The counter argument, however, is that this policy would prevent farmers from switching to other crops in order to earn a legitimate living. I believe that the problem of illegal narcotics in the United States poses a greater threat to the average citizen than any terrorist and/or nuclear threat in existence today. Perhaps a balanced integration of all three of these solutions is our only answer.
drugs will always be a problem IMO and are just to hard to regulate. eventhought drugs have benefits and you can have great experiences using them, in the long run i think they probably do more harm than good. ofcourse, this whole war on drugs thing is a little hypocritical to begin with, eighter that or it has a pretty inappropriate title. it should be called the "war on certain drugs". it's ok to drink your drug but dont smoke it.
Afghanistan is not on the verge, it's already there!
We've been allowing the Afghans to pump up their opium crops since the war by protecting them against the Taliban. Habib loves the US protectorate! Just look at him go!
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*slowly walks to the exit before the pot heads take notice of thread*
Education + legalizing easier drugs such as majijuana that actually isnt very dangerous is the solution imo...
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| Originally posted by St_Andrew Education + legalizing easier drugs such as majijuana that actually isnt very dangerous is the solution imo... |
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| Originally posted by shaolin_Z pot is probably the softest/safest drug you can do. i don't think legalizing it would be a big deal. but the problem is deciding on what's safe and what's not. |
I love that we can drink ourselves stupid and become alcoholics but getting stoned and falling asleep in the midst of eating a bag of chips is VERY VERY VERY bad.
I also love how Cigarettes remain legal since they are full of GREAT poisonous ingredients and contribute to countless deaths per year.
Drug laws are fucked up in general.
Our drug education system is a fucking joke. They try to run the scare tactic game so much that when these "fearful" kids actually try drugs and realize that there's not much to fear they say fuck what I've been taught drugs aren't like that. Then before they know it they get sucked too far in w/o any REAL knowledge and fuck themselves up. We need an education system that teaches you FACTS about drugs in a real way. Not "drugs will kill you" they need to provide kids with all of the information, good and bad so at least they might be able to make a truly EDUCATED decision when it comes down to drug use.
There is good news in drugs as of recently. The government has FINALLY been intelligent by allowing doctors to use MDMA has a therapudic drug once again. In my opinion MDMA is probably one of the most USEFUL illegal drug the world has stumbled upon in a really long time. I am very happy that this drug is getting PROPER use. It's sad that it so widely abused by teens (3rd most used drug in the world).
The drug war is necessary but it is also very ineffective.
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| Originally posted by smokeape Afghanistan is not on the verge, it's already there! We've been allowing the Afghans to pump up their opium crops since the war by protecting them against the Taliban. Habib loves the US protectorate! Just look at him go! [[[smoke]]] |
Funny picture and a very true statement.
Hey! It's Joe!!! Where's Drug_Tito to welcome back our friend??? We only have 24 hours!
And he's hard at work spreading his message as usual!!!
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http://www.able2know.com/forums/about47293.html
http://www.ariannaonline.com/forums...8&mode=threaded
http://www.itsallpolitics.com/viewtopic.php?t=2517
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excellent points and analysis...illegal narcotics are a symptom of our country imploding (addiction) as compared to exploding (terrorists)...
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| Originally posted by occrider And he's hard at work spreading his message as usual!!! http://boards.charlierose.com/board...&ti=11689&fi=32 http://www.able2know.com/forums/about47293.html http://www.ariannaonline.com/forums...8&mode=threaded http://www.itsallpolitics.com/viewtopic.php?t=2517 etc., etc., etc. |
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| Originally posted by JOEBIALEK excellent points and analysis...illegal narcotics are a symptom of our country imploding (addiction) as compared to exploding (terrorists)... |
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