Canada's Marijuna Farmers

[billyo]

farmers in british columba are growing funny fags on a industrial scale they want to legalize it but the U.S.A. SAY IF THEY DO it will sour relation with them, and they will put tigther boarder controls on,
should the whole world legalize and tax it ,just make people be over 21 to buy or try it.
All country's could home grow it and save millons going to crime boss's

 

[JohnD]

keeping the drug trade illegal keeps costs high, increases profits for the traders, and leads users into crime to pay for their habit. Product is of unknown quality and often dangerous. Usage is often filthy and leads to infection. Drug profits feed organised crime.

compare this to the alcohol trade, which is legal but controlled, pays taxes, and dealers will lose their licences if they sell to minors, encourage drunkenness, permit unruly behaviour etc. Quality is controlled and poisonous or adulterated products are not permitted.

We know that when the USA outlawed alcohol during prohibition it had exactly the same undesirable consequences as todays prohibition on drugs.

Prohibition is counter-productive folly.

 

[joe-90]

I guess that includes heroin too then John?

 

[JohnD]

If you believe that for heroin "keeping the drug trade illegal keeps costs high, increases profits for the traders, and leads users into crime to pay for their habit. Product is of unknown quality and often dangerous. Usage is often filthy and leads to infection. Drug profits feed organised crime. "

then I can see why you would say that "Prohibition is counter-productive folly."

I am no more in favour of people being addicted to heroin than I am in favour of them drinking themseves to death, but if they have to do it, I'd rather they drank vodka at home than metal-polish on park benches. And I'd rather they didn't commit crimes to feed their habit.

Hands up anyone who prefers the criminal route.

 

[billyo]

johnd. why do goverments not want to legalize it , could it be because they may have a hand in the crime side of it like running illegal wars on its proffits C.I.A. for one

 

[hi1]

Legalise their use. Show people the video of what might happen to their health, sign on dotted line, put big D on their i.d card for druggie which means no driving, no teaching ,no piloting in fact nothing which can put the general public at risk with a loonngg prison sentence for those who don't comply. Age limit on use, even longer prison sentence for those who supply under age. Sell quality from licenced retailers, collect taxes, watch crime fall. Use only in private premises, any abuse long prison sentence. Nasty prisons, no t.v, no separate rooms,no day release, no holiday camp. No nhs treatment for drug related illnesses. Or fags or booze, make your choice live with the consequences.
Whilst we're doing this legalise the oldest profession. Check the health of those involved, get rid of pimps, collect the taxes, stop kerb crawling. Setup a regulated area say on an industrial estate most of which are less busy at night or in the evening, they are usually out of residential areas, go there, pay, do your business. It ain't gonna be stopped so make it safer for those involved and keep the nuisance away from those who don't want to be.

 

[joe-90]

No it's because a drug-crazed society would collapse totally and completely.

Yeah man!

 

[JohnD]

johnd. why do goverments not want to legalize it

my suspicion is that they are trying to appease voters who are organised and whose anti-drug convictions lead them to oppose liberalisation, even when their actions have the opposite effects to those desired.

A similar phenomenon occurs with groups who are opposed to condom use on the grounds that they might reduce inhibitions on people having sex with the result that they oppose simple and effective protection against unwanted pregnancy and disease infection. Again this policy has the opposite effects to those intended.

In northern parts of Nigeria, polio is rampant because a religious group opposes the well-known and effective vaccination which has wiped out this terrible disease in most of the world. Nigeria now accounts for more than half the world's polio victims.

 

[billyo]

hi1. sounds good to me ,we do most of this with booze now so extend it to drugs and the sex trade