🚀 go-pugleaf

some drugs, like people, are worse than others.

i have a friend who died on saturday from a one year crack binge.  his 
family is destroyed, two kids, a wife, a home, two cars, good job, all gone. 
crack actually does kill.  anyone dealing crack should be shot and pissed 
on.  cocaine is too popular with the power brokers of our world to be made 
illegal, and crack is very easy to make from cocaine, so there is a problem 
there.

and when you talk about 'smiling' and being happy because they're high, i'm 
not sure how much crack you've smoked, but you get kinda itchy after about 
20 minutes of the hit.  you're no longer 'happy'.  if the role of government 
was to supply SOMA to the people, great.  but that's not their role. 
watching people die from their addictions is not pleasant.  for every one 
person who is spared the fate of a dying addict, the government spends its 
money wisely.  it's a fucking nightmare.

legalize pot, great, it's not addictive.  but selling crack or heroin or 
cocaine is a recipe for disaster.  highly addictive drugs with terrible long 
term side effects.  extended cocaine use shuts down dopamine production in 
the brain, meaning you can't feel happy anymore without the drug.  great. 
no, government should not be a part of that.  you have the right to do what 
you want to your body, but once addiction kicks in, you don't want to do it 
any more.  you are not 'you'.  you are a slave to a drug.  you don't want to 
be addicted any more.

the idea that we should legalize these drugs has some benefits, in terms of 
government control, regulation, and revenue.  but would you want your 
wife/kids/best friends/parents out on a saturday night smoking crack until 8 
in the morning, then taking paxil and some sleeping pills to get to bed? 
and then sunday night, too?  and monday then tuesday, etc?  surrrrrrrrrre 
you would.




"Fabrikant" <benny_patrick7@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Premiers of provinces around Canada claim to be very happy with federal
> government decision to increase penalties for amphetamine offences.
> Are they really stupid or just pretend I to be?  The history of war on
> drugs proved again and again that tougher penalties just do not work.
> I can tell you what will be the result of increased penalties.  Drugs
> will get more expensive, addicted people will have greater difficulty
> to satisfy their needs and will more often resort to robberies and
> other violent crimes to get the money.  So, the crime will not
> decrease, but rather will increase.
>
> Drugs do not create crime, absence of drugs does.  I have been an
> observer in jail for over 13 years.  Majority of people in jail are
> using drugs.  When a person is stoned, he either sleeps or smiles to
> everybody, is very happy and does not attack anyone.  When a person is
> sober and needs drugs, this is when he is dangerous.  He will not
> hesitate for a second to kill a taxi driver for $10 to get his next
> fix.  Is not it obvious that a much better solution is to give every
> addict drugs for free plus a safe place to use them?  It is none of the
> government business to put people in jail, just because they are
> harming themselves.  People have absolute fight to their bodies.
>
> The money saved on incarcerating people should be used to pay for
> detoxification programs and free drugs.  In exactly the same way as end
> of Prohibition finished with bootlegging, distribution of free drugs
> will spell an end to organised crime, since nobody will be buying from
> them drugs at their exorbitant prices.
>
> Fabrikant
>