We are throwing people in jail because they don't have a doctors note for their painkillers. Does anyone else see the MADNESS of that? Am I taking crazy pills!?!? It's criminally insane, truly.
The elements of a crime are injury and intent. Actus Reus and Mens rea. When someone possess or sells something, anything, neither are present. Certainly medicines/drugs.
The only people who benefit, besides the medical cartels, are cops, judges, prisons, lawyers and the KM/DS.
Also, if "they" want someone in jail or dead, all they need to do is plant some "drugs" on them and that's all she fucking wrote. Done.
All drugs need to be legalized immediately and sold to adults in drug stores, pure and clean. All the associated crime/gangs will disappear overnight. It's the ONLY solution. We MUST drop the brainwashing and face this.
They had been fighting the biker gangs in Canada for decades, at great cost. They legalized weed and the bikers were put mostly out of business almost overnight. If they legalized everything else, they'd be totally gone.
Using the criminal law to parent adults is fucked up beyond measure.
The idea of making all drugs legal is part of the Libertarian's platform. There's a lot of reasons for drugs being illegal. None of them are good ones. There's a lot of money being made in the illegal drug business. Lawyers, the courts, the prisons, the federal and local police, doctors... Oh yeah, the actual importers and all the way down to the street level crack dealer, I almost forgot. Illegal drug business is their life blood. These systems are dependent on the fact that recreational street drugs are illegal. The old saying of, "When guns are made illegal only criminals will have guns" can be applied to drugs. I'm pretty sure that the legal/prison systems make more money than the suppliers from the illegal drug laws.
The fact is that some people are going to use drugs, period. The solution is make all drugs legal. Control the quality of them and eliminate the criminality of the industry, spend a fraction of the money to help those that are hopelessly addicted and yes, tax the sale of them.
The problem is that politicians have campaigned on drug law platforms for a very long time and it's hard to take the anti drug laws away considering the fact that the system is as addicted to the laws as a heroin addict is to heroin.