Cafferty: Time To Legalize Drugs
by Buck • Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 - 10:27 amJack Cafferty makes a damn fine argument for the legalization of drugs.
No matter what we do, curtailing illegal drug use is simply impossible. But the cost of the war on drugs is too expensive. People are going to have their drugs, whether they’re illegal or not. So why not legalize and tax drugs, and empty out all those filled to the brim, expensive to operate prisons? Our court system is strained, mostly from drug-related crime. Legalizing drug use would remove that strain. And imagine the tax revenue that would be generated… It’s a win, win, win!
Tagged: Jack Cafferty, legalize drugsCommentary: War on drugs is insane
NEW YORK (CNN) — Here’s something to think about:
How many police officers and sheriff’s deputies are involved in investigating and solving crimes involving illegal drugs? [...] How many prosecutors and their staffs spend time prosecuting drug cases? [...] How many hours of courtroom time are devoted to drug trials? [...] How many prison cells are filled with drug offenders? [...] And how many ex-offenders turn right around and do it again?
So how’s this war on drugs going?
Someone described insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time. That’s a perfect description of the war on drugs.
The United States is the largest illegal drug market in the world. Americans want their weed, crack, cocaine, heroin, whatever. And they’re willing to pay big money to get it.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:35 am
At John Kerry's meeting yesterday in El Paso TX to investigate and possibly curtail the drug cartel violence across the border was told by a UTEP (University of Texas El Paso) professor that the way to do this is to end the prohibition of Marijuana. He said that when you take the profit out of the deal the cartels lose interest. Simple HUH?
March 31st, 2009 at 10:58 am
Makes the most sense, Buck. But that religious crowd won't have any of it.
March 31st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Not the religious crowd, money people as in Congress critters, Senators and even ex-vice prez. Own stock in or outright own these prisons and are paid a daily amount to house, feed, guard and generally harass these miscreants. Services for incarcerated is getting to be big business also. Did you watch the Bob Dylan movie called Masked and Anonymous. In it he remarked that "Keeping people from being free is turning into big business" Or something like that, but it is absolutely true. In any governmental discussion of prisons or prisoners the first thing mention is how much it costs per prisoner to operate these torture facilities.
March 31st, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Oh yeah, the more prisoners that they have the more money that you and I give them to incarcerate our children and brothers and sisters the better that they like it. A police state cannot exist without criminals. If you do not have enough criminals what you do is pass laws that cannot be obeyed.