RE: Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?
September 21, 2014 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2014 at 12:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 21, 2014 at 3:32 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Most of what I have encountered personally (although that means jack shit in the over all scheme of things) is junkies ripping people off to pay for their habit.-and there are plenty of junkies ripping people off to pay for their eating habit, their housing habit, their electricity habit (and at least a few that are ripping people off for no discernible reason...their needs are met, they're wealthy beyond all description)........
Meth is an amusing animal - it's one of the easiest drugs to manufacture - and you can get the materials dirt cheap just about anywhere - ammonia, methanol and a dehydrating agent (iirc). If it were well regulated and legitimate as a business then it would be difficult to see it costing much more than aspirin sans whatever obscene taxes we might put on it in order to dissuade users (not that doing so actually works, but that's a whole different can of worms). Sure, people steal aspirin and the money to buy aspirin - but again, people steal food as well. So, here's a suggestion. All of the money we spend on our drug war can be diverted to funding college educations, vocational programs, and public works that enhance our national infrastructure while providing employment. Something tells me that there would be less theft in the world if there was less poverty and more opportunity- even if there wouldn't be fewer "junkies". I say that because the residents of affluent neighborhoods manage to fund their much more expensive addictions without rummaging through each others townhouses on a daily basis.
-but it's just a suggestion.
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