M. SIMON:
When the Harrison narcotics act was passed in 1914 about 1% of Americans (more or less) were considered addicts.
Today the number is around 1%.
I'm not looking for utopian results. Just some results.
In exchange for no results we are way undermedicating chronic pain in America. However, their suffering is required in order to get no results. They should be thankful or commit suicide. The ingrates.
I'm all for that. Making people suffer for the desires of others is what government is for after all. We are quite fortunate that it is only people in pain who are required to suffer. A small minority. Easily ignored.
BTW if we outlawed tobacco and guns we could have a lot more informants. If we outlawed enough stuff we could turn the whole population into informants.
It only requires enough laws.
Today the number is around 1%.
I'm not looking for utopian results. Just some results.
In exchange for no results we are way undermedicating chronic pain in America. However, their suffering is required in order to get no results. They should be thankful or commit suicide. The ingrates.
I'm all for that. Making people suffer for the desires of others is what government is for after all. We are quite fortunate that it is only people in pain who are required to suffer. A small minority. Easily ignored.
BTW if we outlawed tobacco and guns we could have a lot more informants. If we outlawed enough stuff we could turn the whole population into informants.
It only requires enough laws.
Ayn Rand"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against . . . We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted [Editor: Obfuscation of meaning is a key element of the con games bureaucrats and politicians play.] -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
2 comments:
if i assume for a minute that your basic assertion that drug users are depressed is correct, then why should i accept that letting them self-medicate on drugs is a good idea?
and, if you are proposing that we prescritive-pize these drugs, then what will make them less prone to a black market than oxycontin.
there's a lot of misuse of all kinds of drugs.
i think their misuse should be a crime.
how we punish it should be re evaluated. but that doesn't have to mean legalization.
Reliapundit said...
if i assume for a minute that your basic assertion that drug users are depressed is correct, then why should i accept that letting them self-medicate on drugs is a good idea?
Because people ought to be allowed to make their own decisions on such matters. It is all about Liberty. Something Americans used to believe in.
What you are in fact proposing is socialized medicine. Which you say you oppose.
Fine. You are against socialized medicine and the control of the healing arts by the medical cartel except where you favor it.
Now let me ask this - should we be funding the Taliban in Afghanistan in the hope that we can turn a few Americans into informants?
If the misuse of drugs ought to be a crime why not the misuse of alcohol? Or food? Or tobacco?
The drug war is a prototype for depriving Americans of their liberty.
As I have said so many times. Americans will not get a tyranny imposed on them. They will instead ask for it. Beg for it even.
We have increased the crime rate for non-drug crime in this country by a factor of 2 to 7 in order to fight drugs. We have doubled the murder rate. We are financing vicious gangs.
I don't think fighting drugs is worth it. YMMV.
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