Time to end the war on drugs
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Time to end the war on drugs
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Re: Time to end the war on drugs
#2Even coming from a respectable industry leader like Richard Branson, this will almost certainly be ignored.
Here's an interesting question: what would end the war on drugs? Is it something that can be made to happen by sane, enterprising individuals?
Re: Time to end the war on drugs
#3Even coming from a respectable industry leader like Richard Branson, this will almost certainly be ignored. Here's an interesting question: what would end the war on drugs? Is it something that can be made to happen by sane, enterprising individuals?
Get a company like Monsanto interested in the commercial cultivation of marijuana and it'll be legal within the day.
Re: Time to end the war on drugs
#4Even coming from a respectable industry leader like Richard Branson, this will almost certainly be ignored. Here's an interesting question: what would end the war on drugs? Is it something that can be made to happen by sane, enterprising individuals?
Let major tobacco companies expect that if drugs were legalized, they could expand their business. They may start lobbing in favor of legalization right away.
Re: Time to end the war on drugs
#5One has to remember that Portugal did not completely legalize drugs. Possession of small amounts and usage were legalized.
Dealing is still a big crime there, due to the citizens of Portugal not wanting to be akin the worlds drug den. The different viewpoint of legalizing usage was that it is a medical problem, and not a evil crime. Even that said, Portugal also made their problems less severe by bringing them out in the open instead of draconian punishments forcing users to hide.
The biggest hurdle for Portugal's idea to work in the USA is that we do not have any sort of socialized or national healthcare in which to attach a "fund substance abuse as medical problem" freely as Portugal does already. I can imagine that issue alone taking 10+ years in Congress, if any action is done at all.
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Re: Time to end the war on drugs
#6Even coming from a respectable industry leader like Richard Branson, this will almost certainly be ignored. Here's an interesting question: what would end the war on drugs? Is it something that can be made to happen by sane, enterprising individuals?
Get a company like Monsanto interested in the commercial cultivation of marijuana and it'll be legal within the day.
1) This is not something that "sane, enterprising individuals" can reasonably achieve.
2) Silver bullet solutions? Yeah, I believe in them. And Santa, too.
Re: Time to end the war on drugs
#7Even coming from a respectable industry leader like Richard Branson, this will almost certainly be ignored. Here's an interesting question: what would end the war on drugs? Is it something that can be made to happen by sane, enterprising individuals?
Let major tobacco companies expect that if drugs were legalized, they could expand their business. They may start lobbing in favor of legalization right away.
That's just wishful thinking, though.
What can sane, enterprising people do?
Re: Time to end the war on drugs
#8I don't understand how a world where making/selling something is a crime but consuming is not could work.
Re: Time to end the war on drugs
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get a company like Monsanto interested in the commercial cultivation of marijuana and it'll be legal within the day.
1) This is not something that "sane, enterprising individuals" can reasonably achieve. 2) Silver bullet solutions? Yeah, I believe in them. And Santa, too.
Swombat you have a brand here -- don't throw it away with low quality comments.
It is not very difficult to convince Monsanto if they can make more money in some other way -- it may not be something that can be solved by gcc, but when has raw computer programming talent ever been the deciding factor for a computer programmer?
Re: Time to end the war on drugs
#10Even coming from a respectable industry leader like Richard Branson, this will almost certainly be ignored. Here's an interesting question: what would end the war on drugs? Is it something that can be made to happen by sane, enterprising individuals?
It's simply a matter of education, access to knowledge. It's a slow process.
Organised religion fizzled away when faced with widespread access to the facts (though two world wars surely helped).