This to me just totally seems like something they would do.
The drug war is a disaster in itself that was started by the deep state in order to wage war on Americans, anyway. Like every deep state plan they phrase it as something that's for our own good. After decades of drug war, overdoses are at an all-time high, drug-use is at an all-time high, deep state was flooding inner cities with crack, using drugs as pretext for violation of 2A, as well as excessive and seizure and civil asset forfeiture. I could go on at length about this but that's what my assessment of what the plan is.
Trump said in office that if congress gave him a bill to legalize cannabis he'd sign off on it, but otherwise took no real action. As someone who works in legal cannabis I was very pleased with how much he left us alone at the state level and only intervened in operations that trafficked stuff into or out of their respective legalized states, therefore breaking the laws of the states that legalized it and infringing on the sovereignty of states that didn't.
Now the deep state is trying to sell conservatives on more drug war by hyping up military intervention against the cartels. Was that ever necessary when Trump was in office? We don't need another long drawn out expensive foreign military intervention, he had a great relationship with the president of Mexico and was working with him to clean up corruption!
But I think the deep state will try this, give a too-little-too-late concession (they've already lost the optics war for the most part and now just appear brazenly tyrannical) on cannabis legalization, and have their controlled op conservative mouthpieces really step up the attacks on cannabis, so it drives the liberty minded people and moderates away from conservatives and back towards Dems.
And it's really fucking funny seeing all these conservatives/GOP who for the last few years were ranting and raving about tyrannical government and appearing to be the "party of liberty" jumping back on the prohibition train and speaking out against cannabis.
God damn I hate RINOs. If it weren't for Trump I would probably vote libertarian, except the Libertarian party is also fundamentally broken.
The sooner we legalize all recreational drugs the better IMO.Once the prices drop,there will be no cartels.Dopers gonna dope.The casualty rate is supposedly why it's illegal.When I look at the people in pain because marijuana is illegal,it enrages me.They are caught in a world of risk or be in pain.Primarily our veterans and elderly.
Decriminalize. Not legalize.
We still have a black market because of all the government fees and bank regulations
If there’s any group that can screw up drug money it’s the government.
Good point,dead on right.Just like liquor stamps.Thanks.
These people are gangsters. These plants and fermented drinks have been here for hundreds of thousands of years. One day a group of people organize and tell you you can’t use unless you pay them if not they’ll kill your.
Same thing with paper money. It’s extortion.
Literally,when they need enforcement,they draft your children to go enforce.
Decriminalization only benefits cartels and organized crime. They’ll dominate a brutal monopoly, without any oversight. Yes government is inept, but we need to fully legalize and leave it to the free market. I would support regulations to report purity and potency/dosing, but not for government distribution, licensing, etc.
Decriminalization is a half measure. We need full on legalization.
I think you are confusing terminology. Decriminalization isn't a half-measure. It just means to make something not a crime - like possession, for example. A crime is an infringement of another person's rights. How does possessing a plant violate someone else's rights? It doesn't, so it should not be considered a crime.
Legalization means the government gets to write down rules that everyone has to follow then they can stick their noses in everyone's business to make sure everyone is following those rules, but mainly it's so they can take their cut through taxes and licenses. It doesn't mean it's a free market, because the government will still enforce the regulations, so it won't just be a free-for-all.
Decriminalization means it’s not a crime to possess or use a substance. It does not make it legal to produce, manufacture, market, and distribute said substance.
Defining a substance as legal allows for the above. If you don’t want government oversight and regulations, I’m all for that, but it’s incongruent with everything else in our society. It would be a distinct anomaly when it comes to products and services that are traded and sold in markets.
In my opinion, the answer is that the substance be recognized as legal on a federal level, and then any potential regulations are determined on a local level.
When it comes to hard drugs that can easily kill someone, I think it would be reasonable to have standards for potency and purity, in a similar way that we have standards for proper food handling. We don’t want people dying unnecessarily from an accidental overdose - that’s one of the biggest problems with the current black market.
But again, that’s up for the individual localities to determine in my opinion.
We could discuss the potential of a self regulating industry, but this would all stem from a substance being recognized as legal.
If this describes your idea of Decriminalization, unfortunately I think you’re the one who is confusing terminology.
Ya fuck that. Decriminalize fentanyl lol.
Rather give death penalty to drug pushers. That works well in all the countries that did it. No more drug problems. Drugs fuck up alot of families.
Ummmmm fentanyl is a pharmaceutical.
Sold by big pharma drug pushers. Trump goal is go after all these drug pushers. They shouldn't even sell this.
If you legalize recreational opiate use people will gravitate towards morphine or heroin. Why? Because they are comparatively safer, longer lasting, and more euphoric than fent is. Fent is less euphoric, harder to dose safely, and short acting so more prone to compulsive redosing more often, leading to more chances of improper dosing and greater chances of using it in risky areas/situations.
Plus, people will know that they're not going to get spiked with fentanyl when they don't want it, so they will be less prone to accidental overdoses.
Please come and visit Kensington in Philadelphia, where people are literally losing limbs due to continually shooting up at and around the open-air drug market.
Then tell me we should legalize all recreational drugs.
I lost a wife and many friends and family to dope.If it is no longer illegal,there is no profit in it.No turf to fight over,no draw to the gangs other than what would be there anyway.People who want to get high or drunk and fight will always be there.I would wager that most shootings are over community status or conflicts between drug financed gangs.Our young people,particularly our poor frequently have no hope of wealth or prestige within their neighborhood.No car,no ability to have their own home.No hope.Deep state maintains this environment in order to keep a market for drugs.Drugs are a primary commerce in American power broking all over the world.I saw it all over the world.America is the primary culprit in drug trafficking.As a fren noted,we don't want to make it legal,just not illegal.I once felt as you do.I will note that I was a Marine and later a nurse,ER,surgical-scrub and circulator.Nurse manager for a surgery unit.16 years in ICU.Yes, I've treat injured from the shootings,stabbings,curbing,overdoses,gangrenous needle riders.The war on drugs will never be won until we remove the profit at all levels.IMHO.
Yep. Rather give death penalty to drug pushers.