posted on May, 26 2011 @ 05:24 AM
Prohibition never works, as proved by the US banning of alcohol, all that arose from that was to give criminals easy access to cash and power, which
of course results in violence as individuals and groups try to solidify their power base.
The story of drugs is a quite an interesting one if you if you care to do the research, for example hemp was made illegal, not because of the effects
of it as a narcotic, but because of money. The Du Pont family, one of the reported PTB families had acquired the patent for nylon, but knew that for
it to be successful he needed to get rid of hemp because it was used in all the processes he wanted to sell nylon to, Hearst who ran the media
campaign against hemp also needed it to be banned, he had the largest timber holdings in the US and someone had managed to find a way to make paper
pulp from hemp using a machine called the
decorticator and Hearst stood to lose a lot of
money.
There is the moral issue also, at what point does the state have the right to tell a person what they can or cant do in their private life? Just
exactly who does your body belong to, you or the state?
Drugs do have a negative impact on society, but banning them compounds the issue, it drives those that use drugs underground, makes criminals of
normal people, and allows the true criminals to amass huge wealth and power and of course the ensuing violence, not to mention the drain on the
national cash reserves, just think of how many billions (trillions over the decades since the bans began) that have gone into the hands on the
criminal gangs, and continue to go each year, more bans and more prohibitions just make it worse for the people and better for the dealers
About time the issue was looked at with a clear rational head rather than knee jerk reactionary attitudes
edit on 26-5-2011 by PrinceDreamer
because: Grammer