WHY NOT LEGALIZE & TAX RECREATIONAL DRUGS

[Barney]

THE NATONWIDE DRUG ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM IS A COLOSSAL JOKE FORUM MEMBERS. IT WAS AND HAS BEEN AHUGE FAILURE, HUGE EXPENSE, AND WASTE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT RESOURCES AND TIME, AND HAS GOTTEN USMORE, NOT LESS DRUGS AND DOPEHEADS IN OUR SOCIETY.A GOOD ANALAGY IS THE ERA OF PROHIBITION WHICH ENDED WITH THE ELECTION OF FDR. THE BOOTLEGGERSINCLUDING JFK'S FATHER, JOSEPH KENNEDY SR., BECAME NEAR BILLIONAIRES FROM THE IMPORTATION AND ILLEGALSALE OF BONDED AND BOOTLEGGER ' BATHTUB' BOOZES OF ALL VARIETIES. THE MAFIA AND OTHER BOOTLEGGERSBASICALLY ABANDONED THE BUSINESS ONCE IT WAS LEGALIZED AS UNPROFITABLE AND NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE, MOVING MOST OF THEIR ASSETS INTO RACETRACKS, CASINOS, PROSTITUTION RINGS, GAMBLING, DRUG AND GUNRUNNING TO SE ASIA, SOUTH AMERICA AND MEXICO.LEGALIZE THE LESS DANGEROUS DRUGS, GET A DOCTORS PRESCRIPTION, AND BUY THE SAME COKE AND MARIJUANAFOR A SMALL PRICE, WITH A LIMITED NUMBER OF REFILLS PER MONTH, TAX IT, AND LET THE POLICE AND US MARSHALS START WORK ON THE REAL CRIMINAL ELEMENTS IN OUR SOCIETY. SO SAY YOU WHAT ????????BARNEY; BY THE WAY HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ONE AND ALL HERE.

[Ray Mitcham]

I agree entirely, Barney. Take the illegal trade away and you can control the problem much more easily. They decriminalised drugs in Portugal in 2001 and drug use and accompanying problems declined (See this article. http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 46,00.html If you take the profits out of the drug business, the pushers will no longer have any reason to exist.(Disclaimer- Only drugs I use are alcohol and coffee!!! )