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Talking Sense About the Drug WarPosted on Apr 14, 2006Don’t miss this column at the Huffington Post about our nation’s ineffectual and morally indefensible drug war.
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By James, April 15, 2006 at 2:22 am Link to this comment
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“If you buy drugs, even pot, your money may go to fund terrorists”
In the UK, it generally goes to a burgeoning horticultural and all-night shopping industry (Britain consumes a record amount of chocolate), which is one of the most basic points of the whole drug war. Make something that people want to obtain illegal and you create illegality around the control of said.
I have stated many times before that if you wanted to seriously reduce smuggling and crime around drugs, make them freely available. And before someone starts to mention the apocalyptic consequences of such an action, consider that you’re already being pushed lifestyle drugs by an industry that advertises on the television and is starting to enter your schools to medicate your kids.
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