TheAmerican Wisdom Series

Presents
Pamphlet #503


What I think of the
Drug War
by
Mel Young

Having majored in law enforcement in college forty years ago,
I wrote a term paper on exactly this subject.
I had all the data available,
courtesy of LAPD and LA County Sheriff's.

If drugs are "bad for you", how, then,
can it be possible that beating the hell out of you,
shooting you, jailing and imprisoning you,
can be "good for you"????



As the article below points out,
the active word is "addiction".
Some people react in different ways than others,
when they take drugs or anything else for that matter.
Some people just naturally become addicted easier and for many,
who are stupid enough to take drugs in the first place,
THEY WILL NEVER RECOVER!! THE ADDICTION IS LIFETIME!

Should we shoot them?
Should we blow upwards of $30 thousand bucks EACH,
a year to put them in jail or prison?

Functional junkies can be treated.
They can wear a radio tracking collar on their leg.
They can work, have a family and home, pay their
own way, instead of being a burdon on society.

Half the people in our jails and prisons
are in there for non-violent, drug offenses.
Possession, possesion with intent to sell, etc.
WHY ARE WE BANKRUPTING SOCIETY, KEEPING THESE PEOPLE IN PRISONS?

Even such a simple and common sense idea as providing clean needles
is met with garbage-speak by those who should know better.
Offering clean needles is not "sending a message that it's OK to use drugs",
anymore than having clean glasses on the shelf is "sending
a message to grab a glass, grab a bottle of booze and drink yourself into oblivion."



One of the most erroneous terms used today concerns violence and drugs.
VIOLENCE IS RARELY EVER ABOUT DRUGS, AS SUCH,
BUT ABOUT DRUG MONEY! There is a huge difference.

1. Money needed to purchase drugs because of the ridiculous, black market street price.

2. Stealing drug money from others.

3. Stealing the drugs themselves because they are too expensive to purchase.



One of the largest flim-flams ever perpetrated on the un-thinking public is our "War On Drugs".

We have been loosing that war for decades now and yet,
they keep lying, telling the taxpayer they are winning.

Columbia is not the reason for our drug problem.

Mexico is not the reason for our drug problem.

The Golden Triangle is not the reason for our drug problem.

OUR DRUG PROBLEM IS HOME-GROWN.....MADE IN U.S.A.!!
Most of it is caused by the office workers, lawyers, doctors, stock
brokers, actors, business men and women, etc. who use drugs recreationally.

RULE #1:  Stupid people do stupid things. Learn it. Learn to live with it. It is a fact of nature.

RULE #2: Putting stupid people in jail for doing stupid things creates far more problems than it solves.

AS I CONCLUDED FORTY YEARS AGO......THE SOLUTION IS TO LEGALIZE DRUGS.
STOP TRYING TO PREVENT THEIR USAGE BY FORCE.
IT DOESN'T WORK.



Anytime there is a demand for a product and people are willing to pay for that product,
there will be people who will supply that product for a price.

(After WW II, France placed a huge tariff on American cigarettes
to thank us for saving their miserable asses.
All that did was set up a bunch of ex-fighter and bomber pilots in business,
flying bootleg American cigarettes into France.

The same for booze. Joe Kennedy made millions,
smuggling booze into New England during Prohibition,
while running guns to the IRA in return.)



Right off the bat, of course,
mommie will scream that by legalizing drugs,
her "baby" will be able to purchase them easily.

I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU, MOMIE-DEAREST.
IF YOUR "BABY" WANTS DRUGS,
HE OR SHE IS ALREADY PURCHASING THE THINGS;
PROBABLY BY LIFTING CASH OUT OF YOUR PURSE
AND YOUR HUSBAND'S WALLET,
USING THEIR LUNCH MONEY AND/OR STEALING FROM OTHERS.
If your kid doesn't learn right from wrong,
don't blame the rest of us for your lack of teaching or your kid's stupidity.

Parents of most kids who use drugs want to see the sellers castrated,
hung by their thumbs and tortured as punishment for their evil doings.
They fail to realize that the average street dealer is also someone's kid
who got hooked and, along the lines of the famous AMWAY Pyramid,
has been forced to either sell drugs to support his or her habit,
or to take up a life of armed robbery,
car jacking and murder to do so.
When is "someone else's kid" no longer someone else's kid??



It would make far better sense for the FDA
to contract with growers and processors to provide sterile,
uniform strength drugs and provice them for a buck a pop at drug stores and pharmacies.
Toss in the clean needle.
Much cheaper than treating the many diseases passed on by dirty needles.

Spend a fraction of the money we now spend with the DEA,
Coast Guard, Navy, Air Force, NASA and all the rest,
on DRUG EDUCATION AND TREATMENT.



The one thing the government has managed to do over the years
is to trash our Constitution and Bill of Rights
using crooked judges and courts; always,
of course, in the best interest of the war on drugs.
Search and seizure rulings of the Supreme Court
have been reversed by more "modern" courts.
What was once known as "Entrapment"; a violation of the Constitution,
is now supposedly legal because they changed the name to "Sting".

The Supreme Court once required evidence
of a criminal act having been committed
before a search warrant could be issued unless a police officer
personally observed an act that gave him or her REASONABLE CAUSE
to suspect that a criminal act was or had taken place.

Today, the cops search your person and your car
without a warrant or reasonable cause.
If you deny them the right to search your vehicle,
they hold you against your will and summon drug sniffing dogs to search,
which is also a violation.
It is an assumption of guilt until proved innocent.

Same with the new, breath-sniffing flashlights
now coming into use by law enforcement.
They poke it in your car window
and sniff your
exhaled breath to see if there is any alcohol in it.
That is an assumption of guilt.

Same with road blocks / traffic stops,
which were declared unconstitutional, many years ago,
but now are constitutional to stop drug users and drunk drivers.
All assume guilt until proved innocent.

End of rant.



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