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Unfortunately the gambling establishments that have contributed a lot to the state and support a lot of sub industries are probably the ones that are going down one of these being the great race place Santa Anita Racetrack and Hollywood Park, these go back as legendary places they do not look like they are going to survive.
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He has lost a lot of support since he got into office i guess it depends who runs against him, i do not think he will get re-elected.
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I would agree with the general concensus of the board. Pot is minimally destructive by itself. Might as well make it a resource.
The harder stuff is what kills, rots, and turns people criminal.
Up in my country the hardest hit drug areas are all the little rural towns. Meth is huge out there! Everybody makes it, sells it, takes it. It is destroying rural America and making thousands of houses toxically hazardous to live in all for a quick buck.
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On the contrary, legalizing drugs would virtually eliminate drug-related murders. Plus, the crime rate in general would go down substantially as drugs would be available through legal channels.
Another thing: do you honestly believe that there are those who don't murder just because it's illegal? LOL
quote:Originally posted by BuyTex: Pot...illegal...why not outlaw oleander?
Gordon, you have a point. On the other hand? Immigration law hasn't really worked, either.
By extension? Murder is illegal, but it happens all the time. So should we drop the ban on murder?
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I think I know what you are trying to say but I still don't see how it connects.
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This just blows me away. I can understand legalizing pot but in reading the list of other drugs I am totally amazed what they approved.
While I don't use pot or anything else other than the regular Miller Lite I know people who do and they're productive members of society.
But legalizing Heroin and some of the others is going to really screw up their country. I've seen people who started as "recreational users" and just totally destroyed their lives...
oh well, leave it up to the Mexicans to do something totally stupid like this...
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...And the people who are using heroin, meth, crack, etc., are buying it on the black market (war on crime costing billions of tax payer dollars), using dirty needles (which spreads disease), and going to jail (costing billions of tax payer dollars and tying up the legal system, which is giving real crimnals all the breaks).
Possible solution? Ease up the laws on non-violent offenders and put that money towards education as a means towards prevention. If that works work, work towards eliminating the black market from the problem.
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A drug addict or even a casual drug user will go to any length to fulfill his/her desires. Laws matter not. Prison matters not. Loss of freedom matters not. Even death matters not.
No lawmaker on the planet could ever devise and enact a law that's going to solve the drug problem. And I don't think more education is going to solve the drug problem either. You see, when we think of "drug addicts" the image that comes to mind is either a ghetto-fied black person hitting a crackpipe, or a redneck piece of white trash hotrailing a line of crystal meth in his rusted out doublewide.
In my own personal experience as a "street pharmacist," I can tell you a large segment of the drug society are highly educated, degree-holding, white collar suburbanites. These highly educated folks are using the same narcotics as the dirtbags but to an even higher degree because they can afford it.
Rush Limbaugh is a perfect example - highly educated, successful, rich, and completely addicted to pharmies.
Education is not the solution. Just like millions of other kids, I went through all the drug awareness education programs and watched all the scare-tactic videos. It sure did make me aware and educated... and gave me quite an appetite of curiousity that could only be filled one way...
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Good point BL, I too feel that the current anti-drug education is basically useless in the prevention of drug use. However, I don't feel that, therefore, we should do away with drug prevention education entirely, simply because it doesn't "work". My feeling is that if the education wasn't created by the same people who are waging the war on drugs but, maybe by the people who have recovered from drug use, we may be working towards something that "works" better. JMHO.
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