It is hard to watch a news program these days without there being some mention of drugs. We hear about huge busts where Law Enforcement seizes huge quantities of illicit drugs destined for the streets of urban America. We also hear of prescription drug abuse, the recent death of Michael Jackson is a good example of that.
Drugs are everywhere. I live in a sleepy little town in Mississippi, it is as far from fast paced as you can get. Yet, a couple of months ago I was in my local gas station when a young man came in and asked if the station sold glass pipes! Shocked, I mentioned this event to some people I know, they were not surprised and went on to explain that even in this quiet little town there is a defined ‘hood’.
On Saturday Aug/22 at 3pm central we will be running a call in talk radio show on the subject of drugs in America. My panel will be author Armando Aldazabal, Attorney Mitch Stone from Stone and associates, we are also working to actually include an addict.
To listen in point your browser to www.blogtalkradio.com a few minutes before 3pm central and you will see the link to the program on the main page.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDebaters debate the two wars as if Nixon’s civil war on Woodstock Nation didn’t yet run amok. One needn’t travel to China to find indigenous cultures lacking human rights or to Cuba for political prisoners. America leads the world in percentile behind bars, thanks to ongoing persecution of hippies, radicals, and non-whites under banner of the war on drugs. If we’re all about spreading liberty abroad, then why mix the message at home? Peace on the home front would enhance credibility.
The drug czar’s Rx for prison fodder costs dearly, as lives are flushed down expensive tubes. My shaman’s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God’s gift. In God’s eyes, it’s all good (Gen.1:12). The administration claims it wants to reduce demand for cartel product, but extraditing Canadian seed vendor Marc Emery increases demand. Mr. Emery enables American farmers to steal cartel customers with superior domestic product.
The constitutionality of the CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) derives from an interstate commerce clause. This clause is invoked to finance organized crime, endanger homeland security, and throw good money after bad. Official policy is to eradicate, not tax, the number-one cash crop in the land. America rejected prohibition, but it’s back. Apparently, SWAT teams don’t need no stinking amendment.
Nixon promised the Schafer Commission would support the criminalization of his enemies, but it didn’t. No matter, the witch-hunt was on. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA halted all research. Marijuana has no medical use, period.
The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote, which functions like LSD. Americans shouldn’t need a specific church membership to obtain their birthright freedom of religion. Denial of entheogen sacrament to any American, for mediation of communion with his or her maker, precludes the free exercise of religious liberty.
Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Mayflower sailed to escape coerced conformity. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction.
Common-law must hold that adults own their bodies. The Founding Fathers decreed that the right to the pursuit of happiness is inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. Lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers’ self-exploration.
Simple majorities in each house could put repeal of the CSA on the president’s desk. The books have ample law on them without the CSA. The usual caveats remain in effect. You are liable for damages when you screw up. Strong medicine requires prescription. Employees can be fired for poor job performance. No harm, no foul; and no excuse, either. Replace the war on drugs with a frugal, constitutional, science-based drugs policy.
Bill Harris, you nearly lost me at “My shaman’s second opinion” but I kept plowing through. (Yes, you should thank me sincerely. It was not easy).
I don’t claim to know what the right thing to do is but I don’t understand how legalizing an addictive drug (especially without a prescription) helps much. Even if LE stopped arresting addicts on the street, those addicts still have to support their habit somehow - and many do by committing crimes. Do you think people are going to decide to kick their habit because they can’t afford their drugs anymore?
I suppose some idiots think that will happen with smokers since they keep raising the price of cigs. Personally I think the gov’t hopes people will keep smoking because that means MORE tax dollars!
But I don’t know how many people quit smoking because of the cost. And will the gov’t do the same when drugs are legal? Make them expensive? Tax the heck out of them in order to (supposedly) pay for the resulting health care costs?
Society will still suffer the same way - as victims of crimes to support addicts’ habits.
Or are you suggesting that the government provide the drugs free of charge? And then continue to have to arrest addicts for their other crimes? I know not every addict is a criminal but a lot are and I don’t see how legalizing drugs helps anyone. I wish the answer was that easy. It isn’t.
accually in most cities they do supply a free drug its called methadone, they have methadone clinics everywhere its suppose to keep the heroin addict from using…HA all it does is get a bunch of heroin addicts in one place usually about 8am for thier fix of methadone then when that stops working they go back to heroin also so then they are double addicted and methadone is way harder to come off than heroin the withdraw ia HORRIBLE, say you are new to town and dont know where to score well just go to your nearest methadone clinic and ask anyone there youl find anything you want!! oh yea they even bring the methadone to the jail for you….
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