The War on Drugs
This put the tired-looking McCain on the defensive. He calmly explained to me that alcohol can be ingested in moderation without ill effects, but that any amount of heroin or cocaine was harmful to a person. Of course he didn?t mention marijuana, which millions of Americans apparently find useful in some regard, and which is demonstrably less harmful than alcohol or cigarettes (tobacco, incidentally, should be quite illegal by his bogus harm-causing standard). These legal substances have killed an awful lot of people, but there is no record in human history of a person who has died just from smoking marijuana. Alcohol is heavily linked to domestic abuse, assault, and impaired driving, whereas marijuana users (despite their omnipresence) don?t seem to cause so many problems for their neighbors.
So getting back to McCain? McCain told me there was no similarity between Alcohol Prohibition and the War on Drugs. And like Romney, he thinks we need to institute another ?Just Say No? campaign, as if that actually worked the first time around.
- Via Send the Right Message!.
One of my best friends from high school is currently incarcerated for running a grow-op for the Hell’s Angels. The bosses aren’t. I think Bill Hicks said it best: “George Bush says ‘we are losing the war on drugs’. Well you know what that implies? There’s a war going on, and people on drugs are winning it! Well what does that tell you about drugs? Some smart, creative motherfuckers on that side.”
Regardless of your stance, if you believe that the “War” on drugs is working, you’re probably an idiot.
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