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Retired cops: Legalize drugs
Abstract:
Having spent 36 years as an officer with the Denver Police Department, Tony Ryan holds a rather unusual belief on the national drug policy: it needs to go.
Ryan, a speaker with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), will be speaking at the North Wing of Clark A103 Thursday at 5:30 p....
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A Concerned Citizen
posted 10/24/07 @ 8:24 AM MST
Yeah, let's make laws discouraging drug use go - We'll save money punishing lawbreakers, but it's alright to let people destroy their lives and others. They do it with Alcohol already.
Hey, at least the money we save can go to funding hospitals and emergency rooms. If drugs are legal, we'll only get about, what, millions of drug-related-injuries and overdoses? EMTs can make loads of money then - Better start training to work in the ER! Nurses and EMTs will be in demand once it's legal to huff enough Cocaine to kill a horse.
Hey, at least the money we save can go to funding hospitals and emergency rooms. If drugs are legal, we'll only get about, what, millions of drug-related-injuries and overdoses? EMTs can make loads of money then - Better start training to work in the ER! Nurses and EMTs will be in demand once it's legal to huff enough Cocaine to kill a horse.
concerned about concerned citizen
posted 10/27/07 @ 4:56 PM MST
To concerned citizen;
I hope you realize that all the citizens of countries like the Netherlands are NOT drug abusers. They actually have less teenage drug use then we here in the US (see below for references). Sounds to me like if drugs became legal you'd go out the same day and start shooting up heroin just because you could. Is that right? That is the sort of logic you are using in your argument.
You obviously have no concept of personal responsibility. If you want someone to tell you what to do, go live with your mommy. It shouldnt have to be the governments to tread on everyones personal freedom.
If you really are interested in educating yourself about this instead of just believing in what our oh-so-trustworthy government SAYS (NOT what they actually find in their studies), please check out www.drugwarfacts.org. Heres a quickie for you...
Lifetime prevalence of marijuana use (ages 12+)in 2001. USA:36.9% #1, Netherlands: 17.0% #2
Source #1: US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Household
Survey on Drug Abuse: Volume I. Summary of National Findings
(Washington, DC: HHS, August 2002), p. 109, Table H.1.
Source #2: Trimbos Institute, "Report to the EMCDDA by the Reitox
National Focal Point, The Netherlands Drug Situation 2002" (Lisboa,
Portugal: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction,
Nov. 2002), p. 28, Table 2.1.
I hope you realize that all the citizens of countries like the Netherlands are NOT drug abusers. They actually have less teenage drug use then we here in the US (see below for references). Sounds to me like if drugs became legal you'd go out the same day and start shooting up heroin just because you could. Is that right? That is the sort of logic you are using in your argument.
You obviously have no concept of personal responsibility. If you want someone to tell you what to do, go live with your mommy. It shouldnt have to be the governments to tread on everyones personal freedom.
If you really are interested in educating yourself about this instead of just believing in what our oh-so-trustworthy government SAYS (NOT what they actually find in their studies), please check out www.drugwarfacts.org. Heres a quickie for you...
Lifetime prevalence of marijuana use (ages 12+)in 2001. USA:36.9% #1, Netherlands: 17.0% #2
Source #1: US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Household
Survey on Drug Abuse: Volume I. Summary of National Findings
(Washington, DC: HHS, August 2002), p. 109, Table H.1.
Source #2: Trimbos Institute, "Report to the EMCDDA by the Reitox
National Focal Point, The Netherlands Drug Situation 2002" (Lisboa,
Portugal: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction,
Nov. 2002), p. 28, Table 2.1.
A Concerned Citizen
posted 10/29/07 @ 7:02 AM MST
You forget one thing...this isn't the Netherlands; this is AMERICA. You forget how stupid a majority of the country is. If it becomes legal to take LSD, it becomes easier for our children to get their hands on it. LSD is baaaaad, mmkay?
Not to mention, legalizing drugs would decimate the economies of Peru, Colombia, and Afghanistan - They have to grow drugs; their government isn't helping them.
Not to mention, legalizing drugs would decimate the economies of Peru, Colombia, and Afghanistan - They have to grow drugs; their government isn't helping them.
Craig Hawley
posted 10/24/07 @ 4:29 PM MST
Hmmmmm Tough dilema. Let me smoke a bowl and get back to you guys on that.
Hey how come when I come to this site it keeps launching Trojan viruses. I sense a vast left wing conspiracy. Just kidding.
Go Rockies beat the Red Sox
Hey how come when I come to this site it keeps launching Trojan viruses. I sense a vast left wing conspiracy. Just kidding.
Go Rockies beat the Red Sox
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jimmy
posted 10/24/07 @ 8:09 AM MST
That is the whole point, by legalizing the government instead of spending money can actually make money. then we could switch the emphasis on the war on drugs to be about treatment and prevention, not criminality. the way our system works...once your booked you are toast for life. Since decriminalization in Europe, use has actually gone down. they have switched their emphasis to treatment. In fact, if you are a heroin addict in Switzerland and you want to get off, the police station will give you your dose in the morning before you go to work. they will gradually lower the dose, while still letting you function in society. I do not feel like we should go this far at all, but we need to focus on the addiction not the drug!