re: #58 Justanotherhuman

Please explain why you think the “war on drugs” is “bullshit”? And what “circumstances” do you think drug dealers and gangsters come from?

The war on drugs is bullshit because we shouldn’t criminalize use or addiction, and mostly shouldn’t criminalize sale. The very worst of hard drugs, like PCP, shouldn’t be sellable but they should still be dealt with as a medical, not a legal problem for the users.

The circumstances that breed drug dealers and gangsters are groups who are cut off or inhibited from mainstream achievement, or people who are recruited into that lifestyle because something about it appeals to them.

side from the myth that drug traffickers and dealers are somehow from the lower classes who have no other choices in life, quite the opposite is more often true.

It depends what drug you’re talking about. Low-level street dealers make a pittance in wages. The drug traffickers, the big guys, often do start from money, or from legacy in a crime family, but sometimes start up from small groups or individuals, too. Pablo Escabar started from nothing, and Frank Lucas started low down, too.

There’s plenty of middle-class drug dealers, and middle-class gangsters, but they don’t tend to be the targets of the ‘war on drugs’.

There are plenty of opportunists out there who would make huge profits from legalizing all sorts of banned substances as we are seeing from the legalization of pot. Get ready for the marijuana millionaires.

Not sure what this has to do with anything I said.