🚀 go-pugleaf

Rather than "give" the addict thier drugs at the taxpayers expense, there 
should be a government regulated program to make them available for sale, 
and subject to taxation. The proceeds from the legal sale of them would then 
finance the detox and rehabilitation programs. The crime element will be 
taken care of with the de-criminalization of the trafficing. If there are no 
massive profits to be made, the crime will stop.

The US Government is the biggest drug trafficer in the world. There should 
be no problem with supply.

- NuTs


"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
>