[Mb-hair] Re: The Americas Need A New Bold Policy On Drugs

[Michael Butler]

I sent it to Civic
Michael

> 
> The older  I get, the more I'm convinced that there's potentally very
> little difference between my wanting to have my Jack Daniels on the
> rocks, every once in a while, and some one else wanting to do their,
> within a sense of reason, drug of choice.
> 
> There's really no reason, perhaps, why someone shouldn't be able to go
> to their physician, and say, "I'd like to do a little Coke this weekend,
> Doc."  With a PRESCRIPTION, there could be some sort of control over the
> process.
> 
> You'd remove the black market and the billions earned by organized crime
> (and the related violent crimes that go with the current infrastructure
> of the illicit drug economy).
> 
> On top of everything else, you'd have a marvelous new tax revenue
> stream!
> 
> It would also help, I believe, deal with the problem that NO ONE in
> America wants to talk about; the problem tha no one has wanted to talk
> about for over thirty years:
> 
> Children doing drugs.
> 
> Do you have any idea how many fourteen year-olds are going to part of
> their high school day, high?
> 
> When you remove the hysteria, the arguemnt can be made that there really
> isn't much of a problem--once you remove the illegality, with an adult
> "doing drugs."
> 
> But we have completely failed as a nation to confront why so many MIDDLE
> and UPPER class youths like getting stoned...
> 
> Legalizing drugs, implementing some type of prescription program, would
> make it easier to deal with, what to me, is the greatest sadness.
> 
> You'd still have abuse, much as with teenage alcoholism, but if you
> removed the glamour of an "underground" transaction, things might be,
> much diferent.
> 
> Adults, of course, should be allowed to chose what they wish to do, as
> long as it harms no one else...
> 
> There's another major problem with revising our country's drug laws.
> 
> People are marking money on putting folks in jail.
> 
> Forget municipalities.
> 
> If the trend towards privatization of prisons continues....
> 
> (PRIVATE companies are now in the busines of running prisons, in parts
> of the United States)
> 
> There will be a price tag on the back of any potental arrest.
> 
> And there will be many folks unhappy at any law-change that promsies to
> put fewer people behind bars.
> 
> It'll be bad for business.
> 
> 
> Jim Burns
> 
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