Drugs Are Killing the USA
Mar 17th, 2009 | By David Kenyan | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I am not referring to legal drugs. Mexico has now been taken over by gangsters and it is spilling into America. The USA supplies the cash and weapons for this. Mexican gangsters and others have even gone as far North as peaceful Vancouver, Canada, which has had 32 drug-related shooting in the past month.
We have fought the war on drugs for decades and it is only getting worse. Billions of dollars are shipped out of the USA to fuel the gangsters. These gangsters would otherwise be productive citizens. I was talking in the Circus Circus Las Vegas bar with a Mexican/American last week. I learned that a friend of his in Mexico used to be a welder but now makes much more working for the cartels.
The police depend upon the drug industry for their jobs. The gangsters depend upon the police in order to keep the competition down and the prices up.
There is a simple solution that needs to be sold to the public because no politician would be in power very long if he expressed support for it before the public was sold on it.
Take the profit out of trafficking. Keep these drugs illegal but provide them free of charge to the users along with education, treatment and training. These free drugs would be provided by health care professionals and be of high quality. Some addicts would kill themselves as they would anyway, but they would do so in a controlled environment without harming others. Most addicts would choose proper treatment and become productive citizens again.
Pushers would have no reason to encourage others to get hooked on their “free” drugs and pimps would no longer be able to force our most vulnerable to hook for their vile product, because they can now get it for free.
The taxpayer cost of these drugs would be nothing because they would be offset many fold by the reduced cost of auto insurance alone. The majority of all crime in the USA is associated with desperate addicts doing whatever necessary to get the next fix. They will smash a car window if they see a few coins in a car. They will steal the entire car for a few dollars more or just for the rush. They have nothing to loose. Everyone pays for this. One car theft can destroy many lives and cause severe harm to even more.
Our society is fragile and chaos is not far away. The balance between productive citizens who obey and enforce the law is being tilted toward those who destroy our society and drugs greatly exacerbate this.
We can do what we have been doing and get killed by the drug industry or we can turn it around and kill the drug industry by killing the profit. Doing the same or nothing different is certain death for us all. It is late in the game. It is time to send in quarterback Obama and many other players to change what is not a game at all. First step is to sell this plan to others. We are trying here. Do your part to pass this along. We all depend upon it.
Name withheld because this message is death to the drug Cartels.
I would say Good Luck…but it has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with taking action. Get to work.
Regards,
David Kenyan
March 17, 2009
When not sending in thoughtful submissions to the Whiskey Room, David Kenyan is making sure that airplanes don’t collide…in Canada of all places.
Drug dealers would be hurt, but not eliminated. They would continue to “market” to kids.
Who grows or processes these “free” drugs? Does this include just Marijuana and Cocaine or also crystal meth and the whole array of “designer” drugs? What about LSD? The government may supply these drugs for free to whomever wants them, but someone has to make them, whether it be by growing and packing (MJ), or growing, harvest and processing (Coke), or just manufacturing (crystal meth, lsd, and so on)–and all of this costs money. Whose money? Yours and mine, of course. And this would likely double or triple car insurance, because instead of just stealing the cash, those high on meth or similar stuff would be into stealing the entire car, hijacking, and wrecking the things in wild car-based street brawls and in-town demolition derbies.
Sorry, this is a bad idea. Let’s get back to what would work: legalize and tax. Legalization would take the immense profits out of the picture, but those currently producing the stuff could still remain employed–only the profits would be less and there would be no middle men. Then tax the production and the purchase. This way, the money stays here–and isn’t sent overseas to the drug lords and tax havens.
The United States of America and many other countries should legalize, regulate, and tax the sale of marijuana, heroin, and cocaine for people who are at least 18 years old.
The United States of America should allow farmers in Afghanistan to grow opium and sell it to us and others. We might have more friends in Afghanistan, our soldiers might be safer, and the terrorists might obtain less money from their opium.
http://www.stratfor.com has had articles dealing with the problems illegal drugs are causing Mexico and the United States of America.
Figures a moron from an immoral pit of depravity would come up with the pit of hell solution.
Not only will you have more prostitutes, but you’d have more people on drugs, more disillusioned, depressed, dumb and ignorant losers in our nation.
This is the typical short-sighted liberal or so-called intellectual solution of non-interventionist or “Libertarian” amoral agnostics.
What you end up with is a blind society of moonbats like in areas of Europe who import radical Islamic barbarians into their midst. And they wonder why all the new immigrants full of religious zeal are raping their women?
All the Euro-weenies turn into namby pamby boys while their nations deteriorate into dust.
Loser.
That speaks much for the morality of this site.
My goodness, you did stir up a hornets’ nest with a perfectly sensible solution.
I am only going to disagree with you on one thing, a minor detail. There would be FEWER drug deaths because those are almost always from the substances with which drugs have been cut, not the chemicals themselves. Or so they told me when I was earning a masters on Counseling with an emphasis in drug abuse. Not that it would bother me (to set off some others, possibly) because I am in favor of being responsible for our own behavior; if they want to fry their brains I haven’t any problem with that.
It would HELP if we stopped lying to the kids about how lethal marijuana is (no, of course I do not use “recreational” drugs, not unless you count menthol cigarettes and Lambrusco.) That’s the cry of “Wolf!” that makes them distrust what else we say. The big danger is what great-granny said about running around with evil companions.
MY favorite idiotic objection to legalizing drugs is that “We’d have to pay their medical bills!” Well, no, we wouldn’t. “Free” medical care is not anything authorized by the Constitution.
To your critic who wanted to know where the drugs would come from…basically, we’re talking about WEEDS. Marijuana is a weed, poppies are flowers that grow like weeds, and cocaine comes from tree leaves. They are not at all expensive to produce;marijuana was grown extensively for both rope and bird seed in former times! England has given drugs away for years without any serious costs. I, too, am in favor of legalizing and taxing at least marijuana because that would not only stop creating prisoners we spend the equivalent of a Harvard education to house every year, but it would certainly increase tax revenue.
It is not possible to wage successful wars against abstractions, and it is not possible to keep people from doing what they want to do short of killing every one you catch. All we have done is create a vast criminal network and seen a lot of very bad “law enforcement” laws and regulations promulgated. It isn’t good policy to allow the police to confiscate anything they have a fancy to on “suspicion” that the owners are trafficking in drugs or bought items with drug money.
Yup, a lot of people confuse liberty with amorality.
Lbierty means accepting that people have a right to do things which you may find personally distasteful.
You’re annoying, but I’m refraining from calling you names. If you can’t do the same, don’t come back to this site.
The drug issue in “peaceful Vancouver” is endemic and was well established before Mexican gangsters purportedly showed up there. it’s smorgasbord drug culture is part of its West Coast lifestyle. Drugs are the main reason why law enforcement and corruption are both out of control. Vancouver has lost its appeal and large chunks of it are “no go” areas at dusk.
When you attend a business meeting in downtown Vancouver and realize that those “professionals” you are meeting have been toking and snorting for hours beforehand, you get a pretty good indication of their standards.
Drugs will implode that city. B. C. no longer stands for British Columbia. It stands for either Basket Case or Basically Corrupt. You choose.
I think just using the term namby pamby makes you namby pamby.
I see no harm in getting moonbatted occasionally.
Portugal legalized ALL drugs a while back. There is a clear consensus in portugal that decriminalization is what has enabled them to manage more effectively the drug-related problems (goal for both sides) and that the nightmares predicted never materialized.
>>> Vancouver has lost its appeal and large chunks of it are “no go” areas at dusk.
I’ve lived in Vancouver for 20 years, and I work as a professional downtown. Nothing you wrote could be further from the truth.
There isn’t a part of this city where even a woman can’t walk perfectly safely at all hours of the night. Easily one of the best cities on earth, especially in summertime. But the last thing we need is more people coming here, so by all means spread your lies but do it elsewhere where someone who knows fact won’t call you out on your blatant BS.
Facts on Portugal’s decriminalization of drugs in 2001:
“the number of crimes that were ‘linked strongly to drugs’ rose by 9% between 1999 and 2003 (Tavares et al. 2005).”
Overall drug use rose from 12.3% to 17.7% in 4 years.
http://www.idpc.info/php-bin/documents/BFDPP_BP_14 …
Legalize everything, let 2/3rds the prison population out of jail and end the war on drugs. There is 2Trillion $usd per year right there.
To Moonbats: my blatant BS huh? Thanks for the predictable denial and the usual outrage expected from Vancouverites. This isn’t the appropriate forum to deal with your angst but if it makes you feel any better, I too lived there for over 15 years before leaving in disgust.
Legalize (or at least de-criminalize) all drugs—the drug-gangsters will evaporate overnight, in the same way as the booze-gangsters did after the end of prohibition. Why is freedom such a hard sell in the “land of the free and the home of the brave?”
Why is freedom such a hard sell in the “land of the free and the home of the brave?”
I sincerely wish I knew.
>>> I too lived there for over 15 years before leaving in disgust.
My angst? Right. Please tell me where are these “large chunks of [Vancouver] are “no go” areas at dusk.”?
I’m regularly in the worst part of the city late at night, which in truth is only a small contained part not a “large chunk”, often parking there and walking for blocks – often alone and looking like I’m worth robbing and I do carry a lot of cash – and never even once have I been accosted, nor have my cars (Porsche, BMW).
Vancouver is very safe.