Research the topics Opium, Coca leaves, Coca and Vin Mariani on my
blog 'Freedom of Medicine and Diet' and elsewhere. If you really
support what we are doing with prohibiting cocaine and opiates than
propose the same for caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol. As addictive and
reinforcing the latter two are, how many are distilling them into grain
alcohol suppositories or shooting or smoking Black Leaf 40? Meth
however is a synthetic chemical and way more toxic- but by lumping it
with the others you are further demonstrating a severe case of tunnel
vision- which is what the perpetrators of prohibition and its
benificiaries of court personal, police and drug treatment want- to
continue to make money so perversely.
Douglass, you are the one who suffers from tunnel vision. I am a
pragmatic realist. You are a zealot. We aren't going to ban alcohol or
nicotine because we can't. We tried with alcohol. It is too ingrained in
our culture and too easy to make. It is a hard drug. It causes
enormous problems. Nicotine is incredibly addictive and kills those who
use it. Neither bring in enough tax revenues to cover the costs that
society incurs from them, but it would cost way more to try to ban them,
and we'd still have the costs from the use we couldn't stop. Hardly
anyone uses drugs like heroin and meth
(and I don't even want to hear
the synthetic vs. natural argument because it's just plain stupid).
You're wasting your time and mine. I have work to do. You could be
better utilizing your time rather than chasing a pipe dream. It ain't
gonna happen. We are never going to legalize all drugs. Support for that
languishes at below 10% even though support for legalizing marijuana
has climbed to over 50% from 12% back in 1969. People realize how bad
drugs like meth and heroin are for society. Not only are they incredibly
addictive like nicotine (or more so), but they contribute to crime,
child neglect, loss of productivity, crazy behavior, etc., and just
cause our communities enormous problems. Alcohol does a lot of the same
even though it's not as horribly addictive as heroin, but alcohol is
here to stay. There's no making it go away or even putting an
appreciable dent in use.
So no, I'm not going to support banning alcohol or nicotine, and I'm not
going to support legalizing meth and heroin and cocaine either. I've
dealt with enough people addicted to those drugs and seen enough harms
caused by addicts to know that we don't want to risk having several
times as many using these drugs that so few use today. You wouldn't
even be able to find heroin in my town. I've handled thousands of pounds
worth of drug cases, countless drug cases here, and we just don't see
heroin here. The last thing I want is for some store to be selling it
because while most would be smart enough to leave it alone some would
buy it and before long we'd have a bunch of heroin addicts we see in
court over and over again when we have none now. No thanks.
Stay ignorant of the facts and continue to leach off the tax payer with your criminal "defense" practice.
People
like you do not care about the truth, but ONLY about leaching off of
people with your NON defense of people, only defense of an evil status
quo that has killed 100 million people via the market distorting of
lying about cocaine - safer than caffeine and nicotine when used as such
with the criminal ban on Coca that was pushed by the USDA-AMA-APha.
"(and I don't even want to hear the synthetic vs. natural argument because it's just plain stupid)"
You have zero credibility.
http://freedomofmedicineanddie...
There
is NO justification for the ban on Coca nor Opium, and if the statutes
had any legitimacy they would merely be targeting highly concentrated
substances. Please stop pretending to be a reformer. Your idiot-logy
is a sick joke that simply serves to en-richen big Tobacco, alcohol,
coffee and countless leaches in law enforcement, treatment and of course
criminal defense. Continue to keep your head stuck in the sand about
God's gifts of Coca and Opium - you WANT to remain selectively ignorant
so you can leach off the taxpayers and your clients.