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Kudos to Kash Heed for perfecting the melodramatic drug war photo op. Did you catch that moment 24 seconds in where he almost stares into the camera when saying “”must be destroyed”". All that was missing was sinister music right after he finished his sentence.
Anyway, you know where I’m going on this news story. Yep – we wouldn’t have illicit drug labs if our laws didn’t create an illicit black market for drugs. Atleast that’s the most obvious angle I would take on a story like this but I actually want to focus on a little statement made in that news piece.
Did you catch the part where they say the US has stricter laws regarding possession of precursor chemicals? They said that the drug labs moved to Canada from the US when the laws in the US got stricter. So what do you think will happen when Canada equalizes or goes even farther than the US with its precursor laws?
Logic would dictate that the drug labs would either stay put or maybe even move back to the US for a short period of time. Until they get even tougher laws. Then they’ll move back to Canada, until we get tougher laws too. Do you see the cycle? It ends in the removal of our freedoms and a police state. You can see this is true by studying the evolution and history drug prohibition. Under prohibition our society has become less free, less safe, and more overseen by our Government. Not exactly how our founding fathers envisioned our free new land now is it?
As difficult as it sounds to most people the best solution to our drug related problems is to legalize drugs to eliminate the black market. So much of the harm that we, and the media, so often refer to as drug caused problems are in fact drug “”prohibition”" caused problems.
The next time you see a story on the news about drugs and the drug trade ask yourself this: “”was this problem caused by the prohibition of drugs or by the use of drugs?”" 9 times out of 10 you’ll find that prohibition is the cause not the drug itself. And that other 10 percent of problems aren’t worth the Billions of dollars all of us have to spend each year in the name of the drug war. We could deal with that 10 percent much better under a non criminal (yes that means legalized) health care based drug policy. Our current policy of outright prohibition and scorn for drug users isn’t working and never will.
