Dopey Pot Laws For Dope Growers
DOPEY LAWS NEED LOOKING AT
Politicians' best intentions often fail to produce any substantial
benefits for the general population.
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The drug war may be one
example of this. The current drug laws may be benefiting dope growers
more than anyone else. Drug laws were enacted to reduce the public
health risks associated with drug abuse. Given that drug use has not
been reduced, it seems that the well-intentioned laws haven't produced
any substantial benefits. The public health risks have been exacerbated,
however, by eliminating all regulations on drug potency, purity and
toxicity. Moreover, just as gangs fought over the alcohol market in Al
Capone's time, much of the gang violence is currently related to the
drug business. If drug laws are not discouraging people from using dope,
we should probably look at what these laws are doing. They are enabling
a small group of criminally minded individuals to have an extremely
lucrative monopoly in the dope industry. The laws are enabling dope
growers to sell their crops tax free at hyper-inflated prices. The laws
are also motivating growers to heavily arm themselves against both the
police and rival drug dealers. It is probably much less expensive for
dope growers to deal with the police than with the taxman. There isn't
anything inherently criminal in smoking marijuana. It isn't worse than
sniffing glue, diesel or paint thinner. Moderate drug use probably isn't
even worse for your health than being 50 pounds overweight. Heart
disease -- not drug use -- all is by far the biggest killer in this
country. Many people worry that by legalizing marijuana, Canadians would
be giving their children the message that smoking dope is a worthwhile,
socially acceptable thing to do. It doesn't have to be like that.
Legalized drugs could be treated just like tobacco products. Even though
tobacco is legal in Canada, Health Canada has been very successful at
reducing smoking by its packaging laws and education campaigns.
Canadians are giving the message that using tobacco is a very unhealthy,
socially unacceptable thing to do. Similar packaging laws and education
campaigns could be directed at reducing drug use. If people are still
foolish enough to abuse drugs, heavy taxes would at least partially
offset the costs of treating lung cancer and other drug related
diseases. I heard that Health Canada was even thinking of suing the
tobacco companies for all the suffering they cause. We could also sue
the dope companies if they weren't underground and too hard to find.
Think about it. |