Comments on: A Police Officer’s View on Drugs

By: coolrayfruge

coolrayfruge — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:22:22 +0000

Good article.
The war on drugs is just a excuse to rob non-violent people of their Freedoms and constitutional rights
To enslave them in their labor camps.
It Nazism all over again.

By: MythMonk

MythMonk — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:35:33 +0000

@Matt K: I believe the point was that education and rehabilitation is what works, not criminalization and jail time.

The fact is, there will always be people who abuse the system, do it wrong, act out of ignorance (blatant or accidental), and break things. But just because a few people overdo it and commit crimes does not mean that the alcohol was the cause, because literally BILLIONS of people partake without taking a golf club to their neighbors’ mailboxes. The minority who DO abuse alcohol or other drugs need help, and education, not jail time.

By: Belgiano

Belgiano — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:04:40 +0000

I love the people who pick and choose which drug to believe the propaganda about.

Gasoline is a common reagent in many chemical reactions because it’s one of the cheapest solvents – impossible to control, and effective. Large-scale manufacturers could easily filter out the really toxic stuff – it’s the amateur-chemist addicts who get screwed. Large-scale manufacturers operating in a legal environment wouldn’t need it, because they could use proper reagents without the need to obfuscate the supplychain.

Methamphetamine’s effect on teeth is not an indication of “poison” – it’s an effect of the prolonged drymouth, extended waking periods without brushing, tooth grinding, and caffeinated sugar-based beverages which usually accompany recreational doses.

Toxicity varies, but the vast majority of the commonly used drugs do infact have mind-altering effects far in excess of the effects of their short-term damage to the human organs – whether addictive, pain-relieving, stimulant, hallucinogenic, etc. Only *certain* inhalants disobey this rule – even if the press is ready to label any asphyxiant a drug.

Don’t trust anything you read about drugs – ever – from a law enforcement professional. <-An article from award-winning journalist Michael Pollan.

By: BJ

BJ — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:05:45 +0000

I think the number one obstacle is not legalization; but rather who is going to control the MONEY. It is clear to those with minimal common sense that it is insane not to legalize marijuana. However, no one has gone to the next level to determine who will control it. Of course the government (who established prohibition) would have to determine the who, what, when, where and how marijuana will be legalized – talk about putting gansters out of business – you are talking billions of dollars who is going to do that???? That is why it is not legalized.

By: A Police Officer’s View on Drugs: Part 2 | Demockracy

A Police Officer’s View on Drugs: Part 2 | Demockracy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:15:36 +0000

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By: Mark Wilson, Editor

Mark Wilson, Editor — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:54:51 +0000

This is worth reading, too. It’s an analysis of the U.S. government’s wrong-headed drug policy for the last twenty years. For some reason, the people being employed as “drug czar” think marijuana is the most horrible drug to ever befall humankind. Sure, it’s more prevalent than worse drugs, but then again, the worse drugs are worse! Take methamphetamine, for example. Marijuana use throughout your life will not kill you (unless you smoke it, in which case you’re susceptible to the same diseases that go along with inhaling any kind of smoke). Heroin use might kill you (although, with Nalaxone, an overdose can be reversed). With meth, you’re guaranteed to be dead in twenty years. Guaranteed! It’s vile stuff, made from psuedoephedrine and gasoline. It’s a cocktail full of poison which, among other things, causes your gums to rot and your teeth to fall out.

By: mik

mik — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:08:54 +0000

To Matt K (1st commenter):

Recommended reading – http://www.marijuana-uses.com/essays/025.html
Alcohol is quite different from most illegal drugs. To a drug user (like me, just weed though), the fact that the substance is illegal has absolutely no bearing on the availability, rate of consumption or effects, positive or negative. That essay makes some very lucid observations on this point.
Basically, people will take drugs no matter what, and the same proportion of the population will be predisposed (through various contributing factors) to addiction. This does not mean the drug of addiction is itself dangerous. Would you consider hammers so dangerous that they need to be banned, given that many murders have been committed by hammers, but despite the fact that hammers have been used perfectly safely by millions more people before?
[I was going to use alcohol instead of hammers, but that would have been far too easy!]

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:26:54 +0000

Stupid keyboard.

‘replacing lost slave labor with prison labor.’

Dunno how that happened… maybe it’s cuz I’m drinking alcohol, the only legal recreational drug, aside from tobacco/nicotine, which kills thousands every year, while cannabis (”marijuana”) kills none.

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:25:27 +0000

You people are missing the point entirely. The effects of alcohol make someone belligerent, aggressive, and hostile. Alcohol is the only drug which does that to the user. The effects of other drugs, all the drugs that grow right out of the ground without any help from mankind, are not nearly as detrimental. Drunk people swear they’re ok enough to drive a car. Then they commit vehicular homicide. Alcohol consumption lowers ones coordination.

The effects of other drugs are not nearly as dangerous as the effect of alcohol.

Read tinyurl.com/1mn and tinyurl.com/potconviction and see how the ‘war on (some) drugs’ is just the government’s way of replacing lost slave labot with prison labor.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:25:12 +0000

Matt, i agree there seems to be an error in logic they way you say it, but what he is saying is that if alcohol is worse then illegal drugs now that it is legal, and it was so much worse when it was illegal, doing the math backwards for the illegal drugs now, they would cause barely any crime at all if legalized.
Good article Tony, I’ve actually been looking forward to the next DARE talk at my high school since I’ve memorized most of the statistics to show how bogus all their “facts” about illegal drugs, especially marijuana, really are.