If you legalize it, you won’t have everyone out on the streets selling heroin. The government will control and regulate who can buy and who can sell. The drug dealers don’t care about your health or welfare, they care about the money. So the LEAST we can get out of legalization, is age restriction.
It's like, if they legalized gay marriage. You think you will rush out and get some gay sex? No! You think we should rush out and get addicted to heroin? or Vicodin? No! Smoke a lil pot, now thats good!
@GOPsithlord: Since drug addicts will be treated by the health care system instead of being sent to jail, health care spending will increase. On the other hand, drug abuse will decrease since addicts are treated by the health care system, which will deprive organised crime and drug cartels of their income. And health care spending on HIV/AIDS will decrease, since less people will be infected. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what the overall effect on national economy will be.
I can only but wonder what the would-be-legalizers of hard drugs think about the impact upon health care costs of their policy. Am I to believe with a straight face that hard drug addicts (b/c that's who we're really addressing here as a liability) will pay for their own treatment? To whom will the cost be deferred, especially now? I ask this b/c I want an honest answer from those who want to legalize hard drugs.
I think another incentive in the US for government to keep drugs illegal is because they can seize your property (house, car, etc.) and auction off. This can be even if someone has them in your home that the actual owner didn't know, such as a child or visiting friend.
Prohibition of alcohol didn't work, so why did they think it will work for other drugs? I think it is still illegal to make your own whiskey or hard alcohol, even though can make own beer & wine.
@MegF142857 I'm trying to organize a national protest to take place April 20th. History has shown that ridiculous laws can be changed quite hastily with the right type of demonstration. I don't have the money or the knowledge to pull this off by myself, but I have the will to do whatever it takes to help make this happen. We could force the US Government to publicly recognize the TRUTH. This is supposed to be a democracy run by the people, isn't it?
yes, a democracy is no real democracy, if there are only stupid people. most of the citiziens do not think about the current drug policy. but the disastrous war on drugs gets more and more public attention... we see the end of the war on drugs in may be the next five years.
I live in Portugal, but I am not Portuguese. After decriminalization drug use spiked way up. Cheap, (poisoned?) drugs provided by criminal gangs flooded the market. It took about 2 years for the majority of the serious drug addicts to die off. Now the population of addicts is much lower, because they are dead, and that is just fine by me!
We still have lots of drug and alcohol addled losers begging money in the streets. The problem is that they have welfare so they don't die off so quickly.
I live in portugal and i know that is not true. Descriminalization of the drug use only deacresed people that went to jail. People didn't die faster. That's stupid and doesn't make any sense.
@TlAg0 How do you know its not true? Are you an expert on the Portuguese drug situation? Do you spend much time in Barrio Alto or the Baxia of Lisbon? Do you know any addicts, or the social workers that have to deal with them? Do you live in a zone infested with crack heads?
Drugs were never truly decriminalized in Portugal (unfortunately), they just instituted a "do nothing" policy of de facto decriminalization. Violent drug dealers still control the trade. We need real decriminalization.
@XCritonX That's a big difference in your comments about what you meant by decriminalizing drugs in Portugal. One comment meant "do nothing" about prosecution and other comment is "real" by meaning it is legal.
@MegF142857 In Portugal when something is broken we hang a "do not use" sign on it and it might stay that way for years until we really fix it. Our drug laws are broken, so they decided to suspend arrests and prosecution of users and small time dealers. The big bosses are still operating illegally. They still use violence and intimidation to control the trade.
I find most Portuguese don't know what is happening in their country unless it is related to football (60% of the news is football).
Personally, I despise recreational drugs - including alcohol. However, as long as you maintain some level of responsibility, it's none of my business. Laws for these drugs should closely mirror those for alcohol. The effects of those laws would be the same as after the Prohibition: lower crime rates, as well as lower usage and abuse of those drugs.
I think the only reason our drug laws are so draconian in the US is that drugs are associated with liberal Americans, hippies, and the peace movement (all of which are deeply disliked by everyone outside of these groups).
Nixon started current "War on Drugs" and attached drugged doper pot smoker stigma to his democratic political opponents, they were caling for withdrawl from Viet Nam, (along with rioting Hippie protestors) .
@ambigera Nixon hated the hippies because once they'd smoked pot, they didn't want to be sent to Vietnam to get killed for his stupid war. It's not pot that makes you stupid, it's the idiotic system we have that says you have no rights, you're a consumer, shut up and behave like some ass in a suit wants you to.
There will come a day in the United States when people say "They ACTUALLY put people in prison for that back in the day? What was the big deal? It's only pot. "
@mathers3000 God made weed. In God We Trust. Therefore, we should trust weed. Alcohol, on the other hand, was invented by yeast. Yeast was invented by God, but there's a bit of a roundabout there...
As a libertarian, I"ve always had a difficult time coming to the conclusion of decrimalizing drugs. To me it always seemed a bizzare and unsound thought.
However, I've come to the exact conclusions as Gary Johnson.
However, the greatest case comes with self liberty. It's my body. Not the governments, the state of "............", or a local or federal law.
Paul, Johnson 2012!!!!
lumberjacks22 6 days ago
If you legalize it, you won’t have everyone out on the streets selling heroin. The government will control and regulate who can buy and who can sell. The drug dealers don’t care about your health or welfare, they care about the money. So the LEAST we can get out of legalization, is age restriction.
j2ching 8 months ago
Gary Johnson and Ron Paul 2012 would probably be the best ticket in all history...they would probably make America a true Utopian society
HerbalJah 9 months ago
What an honest politician! I will vote for this guy for president next year!
chrisfriez 10 months ago 2
It's like, if they legalized gay marriage. You think you will rush out and get some gay sex? No! You think we should rush out and get addicted to heroin? or Vicodin? No! Smoke a lil pot, now thats good!
nobodyslaw 1 year ago
please tell me he is running for president
redrajani 1 year ago 2
@redrajani
he is
CrazyItalian992 1 year ago
@GOPsithlord: Oh, and all these hard drug abusers sitting in jail -- they dont sit there for free.
oliverigeler 1 year ago
@oliverigeler Yeah and the ones in jail get health care too I might add
Darkwizzrobe 1 year ago
@GOPsithlord: Since drug addicts will be treated by the health care system instead of being sent to jail, health care spending will increase. On the other hand, drug abuse will decrease since addicts are treated by the health care system, which will deprive organised crime and drug cartels of their income. And health care spending on HIV/AIDS will decrease, since less people will be infected. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what the overall effect on national economy will be.
oliverigeler 1 year ago
I can only but wonder what the would-be-legalizers of hard drugs think about the impact upon health care costs of their policy. Am I to believe with a straight face that hard drug addicts (b/c that's who we're really addressing here as a liability) will pay for their own treatment? To whom will the cost be deferred, especially now? I ask this b/c I want an honest answer from those who want to legalize hard drugs.
GOPsithlord 1 year ago
great video!
a4finger 1 year ago
Listening to the harm coming from the war on drugs in numbers simply makes me wanna scream. *shakes head*
Akatam0t0ma 1 year ago
I think another incentive in the US for government to keep drugs illegal is because they can seize your property (house, car, etc.) and auction off. This can be even if someone has them in your home that the actual owner didn't know, such as a child or visiting friend.
Prohibition of alcohol didn't work, so why did they think it will work for other drugs? I think it is still illegal to make your own whiskey or hard alcohol, even though can make own beer & wine.
MegF142857 1 year ago 10
@MegF142857 I'm trying to organize a national protest to take place April 20th. History has shown that ridiculous laws can be changed quite hastily with the right type of demonstration. I don't have the money or the knowledge to pull this off by myself, but I have the will to do whatever it takes to help make this happen. We could force the US Government to publicly recognize the TRUTH. This is supposed to be a democracy run by the people, isn't it?
Please follow us at twitter(dot)com/marchon420
MarchOn420 1 year ago
@MarchOn420
yes, a democracy is no real democracy, if there are only stupid people. most of the citiziens do not think about the current drug policy. but the disastrous war on drugs gets more and more public attention... we see the end of the war on drugs in may be the next five years.
Patriol666 8 months ago
I live in Portugal, but I am not Portuguese. After decriminalization drug use spiked way up. Cheap, (poisoned?) drugs provided by criminal gangs flooded the market. It took about 2 years for the majority of the serious drug addicts to die off. Now the population of addicts is much lower, because they are dead, and that is just fine by me!
We still have lots of drug and alcohol addled losers begging money in the streets. The problem is that they have welfare so they don't die off so quickly.
XCritonX 1 year ago
@XCritonX
I live in portugal and i know that is not true. Descriminalization of the drug use only deacresed people that went to jail. People didn't die faster. That's stupid and doesn't make any sense.
TlAg0 1 year ago
@TlAg0 How do you know its not true? Are you an expert on the Portuguese drug situation? Do you spend much time in Barrio Alto or the Baxia of Lisbon? Do you know any addicts, or the social workers that have to deal with them? Do you live in a zone infested with crack heads?
Drugs were never truly decriminalized in Portugal (unfortunately), they just instituted a "do nothing" policy of de facto decriminalization. Violent drug dealers still control the trade. We need real decriminalization.
XCritonX 1 year ago
@XCritonX That's a big difference in your comments about what you meant by decriminalizing drugs in Portugal. One comment meant "do nothing" about prosecution and other comment is "real" by meaning it is legal.
MegF142857 1 year ago
@MegF142857 In Portugal when something is broken we hang a "do not use" sign on it and it might stay that way for years until we really fix it. Our drug laws are broken, so they decided to suspend arrests and prosecution of users and small time dealers. The big bosses are still operating illegally. They still use violence and intimidation to control the trade.
I find most Portuguese don't know what is happening in their country unless it is related to football (60% of the news is football).
XCritonX 1 year ago
JOHNSON / PAUL 2012 TICKET
bajoverga 1 year ago
this talk is simply a common sense talk about american drug policy...
Th3Wab3 1 year ago
Personally, I despise recreational drugs - including alcohol. However, as long as you maintain some level of responsibility, it's none of my business. Laws for these drugs should closely mirror those for alcohol. The effects of those laws would be the same as after the Prohibition: lower crime rates, as well as lower usage and abuse of those drugs.
pkninja47 1 year ago 3
I think the only reason our drug laws are so draconian in the US is that drugs are associated with liberal Americans, hippies, and the peace movement (all of which are deeply disliked by everyone outside of these groups).
ambigera 1 year ago 2
@ambigera
Nixon started current "War on Drugs" and attached drugged doper pot smoker stigma to his democratic political opponents, they were caling for withdrawl from Viet Nam, (along with rioting Hippie protestors) .
nobodyslaw 1 year ago
@nobodyslaw just another way of government control.
throwntomato 1 year ago
@ambigera Nixon hated the hippies because once they'd smoked pot, they didn't want to be sent to Vietnam to get killed for his stupid war. It's not pot that makes you stupid, it's the idiotic system we have that says you have no rights, you're a consumer, shut up and behave like some ass in a suit wants you to.
signalfire6 6 months ago
There will come a day in the United States when people say "They ACTUALLY put people in prison for that back in the day? What was the big deal? It's only pot. "
MagnusIan 1 year ago 3
I cannot believe that an American governor is saying this... Awesome.
This can only be a good sign.
wespayne67 1 year ago 17
Where would this movement be without CATO?
Clint7981 1 year ago 4
he is an immoral man. God would never approve people to smoke weed. But Alcohol is okay by the man in the sky :)
mathers3000 1 year ago
@mathers3000 God made weed. In God We Trust. Therefore, we should trust weed. Alcohol, on the other hand, was invented by yeast. Yeast was invented by God, but there's a bit of a roundabout there...
signalfire6 6 months ago
@signalfire6 everything came from somewhere natural when you think about it.
lumberjacks22 6 days ago
thumbs up
yougiberishtube 1 year ago
A great governor, not afraid to tell it like it is, but he goes above and beyond by actually doing something about it.
bittergunowner12 1 year ago 3
As a libertarian, I"ve always had a difficult time coming to the conclusion of decrimalizing drugs. To me it always seemed a bizzare and unsound thought.
However, I've come to the exact conclusions as Gary Johnson.
However, the greatest case comes with self liberty. It's my body. Not the governments, the state of "............", or a local or federal law.
1czelaya 1 year ago
@1czelaya If you're interested, look into the history of heroin -- use increased exponentially after it was made illegal. Same with Cocaine.
chris3443 1 year ago
I love Gary Johnson, I will be dissapointed if he doesn't run in 2012.
evilsceptic 1 year ago 6