The Only Answer That Will Work

            Once re-legalized, drugs would be inexpensive, produced by legitimate businesses, and sold through regulated outlets.  Most drug users today moderate their use, including those using alcohol. They would continue to do so.  Drug addiction problems would be minimized, not presenting as big a problems as alcoholism does, which we live with day in and day out.  Besides, we don’t arrest alcoholics for their drug use, only for their behavior if it violates or threatens to violate the rights of others.    In a truly free and liberty-loving nation, ruled by a secular, not religious, government, that is how it should be, regardless of whether you think drug use is moral or immoral . . . a religious concept.

            Re-legalizing drugs would put the violent drug cartels out of business, cut off the major (if not only) source of income for violent street gangs, make it harder for minors to get those drugs, reduce the overcrowding in prisons and the courts systems and, being inexpensive, no one would have to steal or prostitute themselves to support his or her habit.  Any drug addict who wanted help to kick his or her habit wouldn’t have to worry about running afoul of the law by admitting to their addiction. Re-legalization would also stop a major source of funding for  the Islamic terrorists who want to destroy America.  All that and a savings of untold billions of tax dollars per year, not to mention the billions that the government would take in by taxing those re-legalized drugs.

             But it will never happen.   Regardless of the fact that adults have a right to use drugs if they wish—alcohol and tobacco for instance, the two most harmful drugs overall—re-legalizing the presently illegal drugs is logical.  The so-called war on drugs is driven by emotion: religious or pseudo-religious moral outrage that some people would dare pollute their bodies with a mind-altering, possibly addictive, possibly dangerous substance (alcohol and tobacco

notwithstanding, of course).  Besides, there is a whole “prison-industrial complex” devoted to the continuance of the war on drugs to provide them with a living . . . at the expense of your tax dollars.  Those people so employed would fight tooth and nail to stop the logical and right thing from happening.

            Re-legalizing drugs is the only option that will work to stop the drug-related violence in America, Mexico, and worldwide—the only one that will make the world, and especially America, a better, safer, place to live, with our full adult rights intact.  It sounds radical, but it isn’t, because, once upon a time the presently illegal drugs were legal, and because they were, there was little to no violence or other criminal activity associated with their use.  It could be that way again.

One last note: There is also the possibility that with re-legalization the economy of Mexico could collapse—no more billions of narco-dollars to support it. The Mexican government could fail and civil war and anarchy would rule, which could be another reason why the U.S. Government really doesn’t want to do anything serious about fixing this easily fixed problem. Of course, with all the corruption, violence and drug-related murders happening down there now, would we, in the U.S., notice a difference? I believe that the only logical thing to do is to re-legalize full adult rights in America and let the Mexicans take care of Mexico.

Sources:

1.  The Fresno Bee, Sunday, March 2, 2008, A14.

2.  The Fresno Bee, Sunday, March 30, 2008, A10.

3.  The Fresno Bee, Sunday, April 27, 2008, A1.

4.  The Fresno Bee, Sunday, April 27, 2008, Section A, International News.

5.  Cato Institute Policy Analysis #121, May 25, 1989, “Thinking About Drug