Joanne98
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Sun Apr-11-10 03:15 PM
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FORMER POLICE CHIEF WANTS TO LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS!!! |
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Sun Apr-11-10 03:18 PM
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1. Hows about a small clue for those of us on dial-up? |
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:06 PM
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3. Former police chief in Seattle |
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arguably a more civilized place than meth soaked Podunk.
However, he's absolutely correct. Legalize it all. Sell it from behind a counter at Walgreen's or any other drug store. Make people show identification to prove they're of legal age. Undercut the black market price (easy to do!) and offer purity and reliable dosages. That will make black market dope unattractive and the lack of profits will bust the drug gangs here and abroad.
It would have the added benefit of closing the wide open pipeline to kids. Black marketers don't care who they sell to. Walgreen's would.
Oh, kids here and there would still get it, but fewer than do now.
Yes, some people will always run into serious trouble with any psychoactive substance. However, we waste billions on interdiction, imprisonment, and paramilitary operations overseas where we have no business interfering. Translate that into millions for inpatient treatment and you have a much saner, more cost effective system.
It's time to end the drug war because it was lost a long time ago, the drugs won.
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:30 PM
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4. +1..and many of the group who oppose legalization get their drugs prescribed.. |
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by the bucketful. Prisons are big business...and keep minorities in place..still. Real criminals could also be attended to..like the guys who just broke the backs of the middle class..and got bonuses instead of jail.
I liked this ex police chief and he puts forth sound ideas.
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:36 PM
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the taxes that could be collected on the sale of these substances. We'd pay off our national debt in a few years!
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Sun Apr-11-10 07:35 PM
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http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.phpThere are a surprising number of police who oppose the drug war and especially want to have marijuana legalized. They even have an organization.
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Sun Apr-11-10 08:02 PM
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7. This guy was on Thom Hartmann |
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