Saturday, December 19, 2009

Legalize it all!

I read about how much money is spent on prevention, health care, law enforcement, and detention related to drugs and it was in the trillions. Seriously, lets legalize it all - heroin, cocaine, marijuana... all of it.

Legalize it, regulate it, tax the hell out of it. Put all the government warnings on it you want, ensure the quality, sell business licenses to the street thugs for growing, distribution, export and import, selling... do you see what I'm saying here?

The biggest reason for emergency room visits related to drugs is the lack of quality assurance of the drugs. There is no oversight at all. Drug dealers may cut that stuff with Draino. Its the stuff that its cut with more often that ends people up in the emergency room.

Think about it. We have hundreds of thousands addicted already (remember its illegal), thousands go to the ERs every month, and billions go to drug lords in South America. Why not keep that money here at home? Lets grow, produce and sell American made drugs? We could create millions of jobs, create tax revenue to pay off the national debt, and a million chilled out Americans.

1 comments:

Melissa said...

And a way to also a way to get some of the working, tax paying people's taxes BACK into the system - i.e. from the lower spectrum of the drug users who may already be on food stamps, and section 8, etc. They'd be a more productive part of society by paying some of that money back instead of sending it off to Columbia. And the upper class recreational users...won't argue with them paying either.