Isn’t it kind of impossible to have a large quantity of illegal drugs around unless there is corruption in the drug enforcement part of the government?
If they want a real pricey item, they should ship Saffron, Radish.^http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/01/spice-hunting-saffron-how-to-use-guide.html^The climate of Afghanistan is supposedly very good for the growing of saffron, but it is a much more labor intensive plant than opium.^The war on drugs is a war on Americans and too many of those profiting from this war are outside of our borders. In the late 1970s, five NYC hospitals were mentioned in an issue of Reader’s Digest because well over 50% of their ER intake was drug related. Users having bad reactions, sellers beaten or shot by competitors, or good citizens attacked in and/or out of their homes by users desperate for something to steal and sell in order to buy more drugs. Heroin was the drug causing the most problem then, but within a few years, cocaine, crack, and other physically and psychologically addictive drugs were competing with heroin and opium. We can now add prescription drugs, methamphetamines, and others to the mix. Marijuana is not the threat to mind, body, and spirit that the aforementioned drugs present. It is less of a “gateway drug” than alcohol, and has numerous beneficial uses ranging from the treatment of PTS, to increasing the appetites and pain control in cancer patients, to reducing the number of seizures in children, and is not part of the following suggestion.There could be a benefit to making the use of the more addictive and harmful drugs legal if used under medical supervision. “Patients” could be admitted to hospitals that are already seeing much of their losses come from treating addicts and the victims of addicts. The addict could receive counseling and would be required to give information that would enable family members to find and visit the ‘patient’. Addicts would not have to attack homes or citizens in order to steal for their drug money, and drugs taken from pushers could be tested and used by hospitals if safe.But the real benefit from having these self destructive personalities in one place is education. Starting at middle school, field trips could walk through the hospital where at risk teens could look through one way glass and see for themselves the “joy” of being high. They could talk to addicts who are trying to come clean in this controlled environment and have something to think about on that day when a person offers them a drug at school or on the streets of their neighborhood. The costs would initially be high, with security for the hospitals themselves being the most costly as drug dealers seek to regain the upper hand. However, the Reader’s Digest article addressed the high cost to hospitals, the police departments, and the victims of drug addicts and their costs and if this program was properly managed and enacted, with a very short time, the costs overall would begin to drop.This is an outline of an idea and would need a great deal of effort to make it a real solution, but in the absence of any other solution than incarceration within unfriendly prisons, prisons that train addicts to be better at crime and more dangerous to the population, it could be a good start.@ Braindead08 - Is it corruption to make a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical corporations head of the FDA as happened in 2006? Is it corrupt to allow lobbyists for drug makers to draft legislation a politician then submits for votes, sometimes without review?I think so, but Washington DC seems less certain.It is a good question, Mr. Einstein… and quite relative to the discussion.Respectfully,C.
BTW, I am not advocating for the war on drugs. It was phony in the beginning. It’s phony now, and was phony the time between.-The problem is that there is corruption somewhere within the enforcement mechanism because either the money or the drugs themselves are too tempting to resist, at least in some cases, and that’s enough to allow the drug trade to flourish. -Obviously, I can’t prove anything, but I’d bet that examination of sealed diplomatic pouches entering and leaving most countries would find more than a little contraband.
Test welfare recipients, great idea. Also, test upper management of every corporation that gets a tax subsidy, GE, ADM, Koch industries, PG, XOM, HAL, etc.-Also, every executive at every bank that gets a bailout.-And, of course all elected and appointed officials, especially in Florida. -It would be a great growth industry and might be able to provide jobs for people who would otherwise be on welfare. -win-win-win
braindead Premium Member over 10 years ago
Isn’t it kind of impossible to have a large quantity of illegal drugs around unless there is corruption in the drug enforcement part of the government?
chazandru over 10 years ago
If they want a real pricey item, they should ship Saffron, Radish.^http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/01/spice-hunting-saffron-how-to-use-guide.html^The climate of Afghanistan is supposedly very good for the growing of saffron, but it is a much more labor intensive plant than opium.^The war on drugs is a war on Americans and too many of those profiting from this war are outside of our borders. In the late 1970s, five NYC hospitals were mentioned in an issue of Reader’s Digest because well over 50% of their ER intake was drug related. Users having bad reactions, sellers beaten or shot by competitors, or good citizens attacked in and/or out of their homes by users desperate for something to steal and sell in order to buy more drugs. Heroin was the drug causing the most problem then, but within a few years, cocaine, crack, and other physically and psychologically addictive drugs were competing with heroin and opium. We can now add prescription drugs, methamphetamines, and others to the mix. Marijuana is not the threat to mind, body, and spirit that the aforementioned drugs present. It is less of a “gateway drug” than alcohol, and has numerous beneficial uses ranging from the treatment of PTS, to increasing the appetites and pain control in cancer patients, to reducing the number of seizures in children, and is not part of the following suggestion.There could be a benefit to making the use of the more addictive and harmful drugs legal if used under medical supervision. “Patients” could be admitted to hospitals that are already seeing much of their losses come from treating addicts and the victims of addicts. The addict could receive counseling and would be required to give information that would enable family members to find and visit the ‘patient’. Addicts would not have to attack homes or citizens in order to steal for their drug money, and drugs taken from pushers could be tested and used by hospitals if safe.But the real benefit from having these self destructive personalities in one place is education. Starting at middle school, field trips could walk through the hospital where at risk teens could look through one way glass and see for themselves the “joy” of being high. They could talk to addicts who are trying to come clean in this controlled environment and have something to think about on that day when a person offers them a drug at school or on the streets of their neighborhood. The costs would initially be high, with security for the hospitals themselves being the most costly as drug dealers seek to regain the upper hand. However, the Reader’s Digest article addressed the high cost to hospitals, the police departments, and the victims of drug addicts and their costs and if this program was properly managed and enacted, with a very short time, the costs overall would begin to drop.This is an outline of an idea and would need a great deal of effort to make it a real solution, but in the absence of any other solution than incarceration within unfriendly prisons, prisons that train addicts to be better at crime and more dangerous to the population, it could be a good start.@ Braindead08 - Is it corruption to make a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical corporations head of the FDA as happened in 2006? Is it corrupt to allow lobbyists for drug makers to draft legislation a politician then submits for votes, sometimes without review?I think so, but Washington DC seems less certain.It is a good question, Mr. Einstein… and quite relative to the discussion.Respectfully,C.
taratus over 10 years ago
Long Life to Respectful Troll. May his seed be productive in the uteruses he thus quickens with his sterling logic.
braindead Premium Member over 10 years ago
Hmmm, anybody ever see the sheik and neoconman at the same time?
braindead Premium Member over 10 years ago
BTW, I am not advocating for the war on drugs. It was phony in the beginning. It’s phony now, and was phony the time between.-The problem is that there is corruption somewhere within the enforcement mechanism because either the money or the drugs themselves are too tempting to resist, at least in some cases, and that’s enough to allow the drug trade to flourish. -Obviously, I can’t prove anything, but I’d bet that examination of sealed diplomatic pouches entering and leaving most countries would find more than a little contraband.
braindead Premium Member over 10 years ago
Test welfare recipients, great idea. Also, test upper management of every corporation that gets a tax subsidy, GE, ADM, Koch industries, PG, XOM, HAL, etc.-Also, every executive at every bank that gets a bailout.-And, of course all elected and appointed officials, especially in Florida. -It would be a great growth industry and might be able to provide jobs for people who would otherwise be on welfare. -win-win-win