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August 24, 2007
Legalize Drugs?
"According to the local prosecutor, Rikard was convicted in 2004 of robbing a man who he had encountered in a bar of $10, and beating him to death with a tree branch. Philip Heithecker, Rikard's attorney, said in court Thursday his client was so high on drugs when he broke into the Oroville woman's home years earlier that he didn't even
remember committing the crime. The attorney said Rikard cried upon being told details of the brutal attack ..."
This and much, much more is what awaits us if we legalize drugs. Some people can't wait because they see legalized drugs as the solution to drug smuggling and the big money it brings in and it may be, but at what cost to society in other areas? Don't even tell me how wonderful life is in Amsterdam, I've been there, I've seen it and there are a lot of zombies walking thanks to all the available, cheap drugs.
There's always a price to pay for a vice....always. Drug abuse will never be solved no matter what we do. Nor will rape, child molesting and probably a few dozen other human abberations, because it is part of what makes us, us.
We can reduce criminal conduct and its impact, but wiping it out...nah, it just won't happen, not in our lifetimes anyway.
This not to say I wouldn't be willing to give legalizing drugs an opportunity.
I think we ought to take Senator Ted Kennedy's home state, Massachusetts, and let it be wide open for free drugs and lets monitor how it goes. Maybe we will learn something from this noble social experiment. This will take the profit out of drugs and that should reduce drug trafficking...I'm sure of that. However, there might be some drug exporting going and some drug induced crimes...but lets not worry about the small stuff, lets just see how the free drug state fairs and give them a chance. Then we will finally know if it works or not.
Posted by Post Scripts at August 24, 2007 09:38 AM