War against drugs is lost

IT IS sad but true. The war on drug abuse is lost.

Just as lost, in fact, as the war on alcohol was lost in the US in the 1920s. Sadly, the parallel does not end there

Now, as then, the master criminals have set up legitimate businesses, to be enforced by criminal means.

What would be the worse aspect of a total decriminalisation of drugs?

Would government ministers die of overdoses? Would ordinary citizens? No, because if they really wanted drugs that badly, they would have obtained them long ago.

We cannot even control drugs in our prisons, never mind in free society

Would airline pilots and surgeons indulge and destroy those persons under their charge? No. Some people still have ethics.

Who would lose? The dealers, because the profit would drop out of their trade. Anyone else? Yes. The users

Nature eliminates the foolish.

Rob Hall
Casuarina

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Pubdate: Thur, 19 May 2005
Source: Northern Territory News (Australia)
Author: Rob Hall
Copyright: 2005 Northern Territory News
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