Cop wants drugs legalized

Walmart shoppers already freak out like they are giving away crack. What would happen if they actually did.

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So you want the government to make money off of selling drugs. Awesome. I already think it's hypocritical for buildings to be built on the back of tobacco sales, and then not let tobacco to be used in those buildings. How bout we stop sending our troops elsewhere, and let them help law enforcement battle drug dealers, guard borders, and inspect ports.

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Don't buy into USB's bullcrap Featherstone, he's never been off American soil or barely Trumbull County. Anytime a conversation takes place and a Country is mentioned he claims to have been there. He's one of about 4 or 5 angry idiots logging in to this site for the wrong reason.

With USB the motivation is either racial bashing or Political partisanship or some other means of antagonizing ordinary people logging in to leave their opinion or dialog on the subject of the day.

He's already confessed to living in his mom's basement and baby sitting his sisters children to earn money between checks, which I suspect is SSI. Lot's of anger & jealousy directed at folks who have done ok with their lives & families... Don't get caught up!

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At the very least, pot should be legalized for medical reasons. My son has epilepsy and the drug he is on, Depakote, has many horrible side effects. Medicinal pot is being used in Michigan to prevent seizures, same as Depakote, but no side effects. Unfortunately, you cannot get it unless you are a Michigan resident.

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Yes I am on the right and although I would not encourage drug use, I believe that in a free country you should be able to put whatever you want into your body.

Those on the left want to control you (e.g. ban on large soft drinks in New York City).

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Yea, I can see it now. Legalize drugs. Companies will still test and not hire you and then they are on the public dole.

And I see a lot of Rightwing Tea'ers on here that are all for it. Wow, Really messed in the head.

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Legalize them and tax them. Start by legalizing marijuana and slowly add from there. It will add to the tax money collected and make it safer for the police to do their jobs.

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Of course there are people who would be against legalization.

Since we fill our prisons with non-violent drug offenders, many people would lose jobs if drugs were legalized:

Drug lords, street dealers, hitmen, Judges, lawyers, prosecutors, bailiffs, bail bondsmen, prison guards, the prison warden's secretary, etc.

So... a lot of money is being made whether drugs are legal or not, but I would rather see drug addicts treated as a medical condition rather than being locked up with violent criminals.

But through legalization and taxation, the money could go towards more constructive projects like road paving, rehab centers and other such things.

In either case it is a huge industry, it would just change where the money goes.

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35,000 dead in Mexico since '06 when they declared their 'War on Drugs'.

Legalization & regulation is the only solution.

You can't control demand but at least we can regulate the supply through legalization.

The demand is what creates the black market.

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Mullets, kind of were I was going. Many have traditional purposes in some cultures. Of course its not White Anglo Protestant, so to many its wrong.

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Reason I ask Blues, you said many people wouldn't do drugs if they were legal because of MORAL , and RELIGIOUS reasons. Many native American Indian tribes smoked Hemp, Hash and other mild Hallucination plants, for customary and RELIGIOUS purposes. How do you feel about that?

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I'm glad to see there is a cop out there with at least half a brain.

It should be obvious to everyone that the 'War on Drugs' has been a failure, just as prohibition was a failure.

I would disagree that all drugs are 'terrible', as marijuana has medical uses and of course cocaine derivatives are used medicinally as well (e.g. lidocaine). And don't forget that opoids and their derivatives are also used medicinally for pain control (of course they have addictive potential).

Other so-called 'drugs' that are illegal include entheogens such as peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, etc. which have cultural use going back thousands of years and, again, I would not say that these are 'terrible'.

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Usblues, did you do any drugs in Amsterdam? Serious, just asking..

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I would be interested in trying pot if it was legal, but I do not think it is going to happen in my lifetime.

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Legalizing drugs would be instant economic depression, with millions of people being rendered jobless.

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Legalize and regulate is not an oxymoron. People will smoke weed, whether legal or not. I knew a dealer who sprayed his with Black Flag to get a harsher smoke, making buyers think they are getting stronger stuff. So when people bought it from him for whatever reason--such as when Hospice of Youngstown told me to buy some for a relative dying of cancer--they were inhaling Black Flag. Regulating it makes it safer. Same as alcohol, you can buy it legally and know that it's clean and pure or buy it from a moonshiner who may have cut it with something to give it a rougher taste, making people think it has a higher alcohol content, stuff you can go blind by drinking.

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"legalize and regulate?" isn't that an oxymoron? Going on the premise, shouldn't Uncle Same just "legalize" everything that is currently illegal. There is some merit to the proposal, but no way in*****would it ever work.Prohibition didn't eliminate alcoholics and/or drunks....(alcoholics attend meetings)

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I wonder if alcohol use is more prevalent now, than it was during prohibition?

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Daniel, alcohol is legal. Does that mean the government is endorsing its use? Not at all, just saying that it's legal.

Please take out a history book and read about the Prohibition era. Violence in the streets as rival gangs fought it out over turf wars, criminal kingpins getting rich, innocent people getting shot. Now substitute "alcohol" for "drugs." Same thing is happening today. Legalize, regulate it, and tax it. Not even to mention the pharmaceutical benefits of marijuana, not the least of which are relieving symptoms of glaucoma and epileptic seizures.

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"Retired police Capt. Peter Christ said that his mission to legalize drugs should not be mistaken as an endorsement to use them."

That is exactly what your saying!

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ALSO keep in mind there still are . . . in 2013, people who don't do things, cause it's illegal.

Even if drugs are generally "legalized", there should always be some small degree of illegality to illicit drugs.

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My understanding was that in Holland there was an initial sharp increase in drug use that eventually became an overall reduction . . . human nature.

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I reject the idea that legalization would turn into a "free for all" drug party society. Those who are unlikely to use for moral, health, religious or other reasons will not suddenly become addicts when drugs are decriminalized.

I have not heard of any increase in usage in Countries (Amsterdam) that have legalized & regulated pot smoking or other drugs. And I believe if you stepped up penalties for selling to or buying drugs for minors that would minimize our teens getting ensnared. Although we know teens when so inclined are going to find their way into drugs whether legal or not.

As a society we must try something knowing that prohibition and the "war" has failed miserably while making millionaires of Cartels south of the border and major players north of the border.

And lastly, I've not heard where California's legal marijuana industry has created additional addicts among teens or anyone else not already indulging...

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A point on which we can agree!

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you will begin to see a massive drop in crime and drug addicts more or less at the same time. all the dying drug addicts will be the example we can use to the kids of what a poison those things are. problem solved.

give it to em.

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