Ron Kuby: War on Drugs, 2009 Edition

http://www.airamerica.com The War on Drugs is back! Apparently it was so much fun and so completely unsuccessful back in the 80s, were going to go through the same wonderfully fruitless exercise again. This time politicians even acknowledge that its fruitless, which makes the second time around even better.

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[HugeJohn51]

no doubt, make pot legal and you pull the rug out from under the drug dealers. they're out of business today!

[sachaput]

Damn you, Ron! Sometimes you make too much sense. You've got to stop doing that.

[eastern2western]

the best way to make the drug business is make it legal. then the market would simply be flush with supply and make the drugs so cheap that it would be no longer profittable for the drug business

[Scyllax]

How safe are nicotine and alcohol?

[Scyllax]

Harmful drugs are already legal and available without prescriptions (alcohol, nicotine). The only purpose of a firearm is to kill or maim others or one's self. Dangerous chemicals are not necessarily killing tools, and their illegallity and resulting illicit trade causes much of their social dangers. If we adopted the European model of decriminalization and public health focus on these chemicalls, the criminal trade would be over and the persons dependant on them could be controlled better.

[daderone]

What do we have to do to get Randi Rhodes back? I mean for real.

No offense to all other parties concerned but Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes were far better.

[gwengoadalso]

YEP!

[anthonytaurus]

That's what we call semantics. You take the CSA word for word but you don't grasp the meaning or appreciate the repercussion of the wording.

The scheduling is a degree of danger of drugs going from the most dangerous being heroin all the way down to Tylenol w/codeine.

The real question is: Do you believe the scheduling is appropriate as it pertains to marijuana (I) vs cocaine (II)? vs PCP (III)? vs alcohol? vs tobacco?

[ennivzarf]

Having been inspired by Ron, I believe we shouldn't just stop at legalizing drugs. We should totally legalize killing. I believe if we legalize it first degree murder, it will decrease the murder rates throughout the United States.

So Ron, would you be willing to test out your theory in your hometown where your children goes to school? I like to see how that turns out.

To legalize all drugs in one simplistic, blanket law is as intelligible as legalizing all guns to stop guns violence.

[VirtualBizWeb]

Sched. I controlled substances are categorized as such because they have no known medical uses. Schedule II controlled substances DO HAVE known medical uses. In 1970, medical marijuana and THC-based drugs were not mainstream or existent in some cases.

Sched. II are ALSO listed as causing psychological and physical damage, whereas Sched. I substances are not. Your assertion that cocaine is said by the DEA to be safer than marijuana is directly contradicted by the text of the act you cited.

[Originalqtruth]

I can't believe that rational people would EVER hold that legalizing hard drugs solves any problem. The real culprits here are the drug users. I did a Youtube video on just this issue: check out my "Drug Essay"...