Do You Agree That Ron Paul Is Right on One Thing? Stopping the War on Drugs.?
Question by x z: Do you agree that Ron Paul is right on one thing? Stopping the War on drugs.?
It had to be a maverick like him to say what most people know in their guts that the War On Drugs is not controlling drug traffick, or illegal profits funding gangs and terrorists all over the world. In Afghanistan drug moneys are killing our soldiers, we may even lose that war.
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Answer by Ashley G
nah not really
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Ron Paul has the most interesting ideas on the campaign trail, which is easy considering none of the front runners are coming up with any good ideas.
Yes, I agree the War on Drugs should be stopped. Regulate it. Legalize it. Tax it.
No, once you let it come in prices fall, more people get hooked, Cartels choke supply and prices skyrocket making them more money.
Supply and demand. Unfortunately, illegal drugs are addicting thus making an artificial demand shifter.
KEEP THE WAR ON DRUGS GOING!!!!
Ron Paul is right on a lot of things.
Prohibition brings gangsters. But what are the gangsters going to do, if the legal pharmeuceutical companies or booze consortia move in on their trade?
you dont REALLY know the facts. everything you said there is speculation based on stuff you have researched, and you really dont know. theres no way to predict what the US would be like without the stronghold from the government cracking down on it. I think everything fine the way it is, as far as drugs are concerned..
He may have a point. However, If there is a demand, there will always be a supply. In the USA, people just make their own.
I will agree that the war on drugs is a failure if you and Ron Paul will agree that the war on poverty has been an equal failure and disaster.
Let’s do away with both. Billions upon billions spent with no good result. We still have addicts and we still have poor.
If Ron Paul wants to be honest, truthful and consistent, he should agree that both these programs with all their many government programs should be done away with.
Agree?
Polaris, Paul agrees with you on both of those issues.
NO,
Maverick? closer to glue factory
That’s the Libertarian Party view. If you legalize drugs, you run a lot of the bad guys out of business. You would also have oversight of production so drugs wouldn’t be cut with more dangerous/poisonous chemicals. And you could tax them just as we do with cigarettes. Those taxes could be used to fund treatment centers for people when they decide it wasn’t such a good idea to use drugs.
In addition, the jails wouldn’t be overcrowded.
It’s actually a pretty good solution.
>>>we may even lose that war. (Afghanistan)<<< What did we have to win there? Osama bin Laden is NOT wanted for 9/11. If we really wanted to find him, I'm sure a few people at the Carlyle shareholder's meeting had his address. But he's been dead since December 2001. So why are we still there? Why were we there in the first place?
He’s right about stopping the war in Iraq, too.
I like Ron Paul, but all these wars he wants to end, well, he needs to reconsider. While the war on drugs won’t stop them, it does lower them and force them underground. Without a vigilant effort to pursue these drug traffickers, the practice would become more widespread and you can’t convince me that widespread drug use, or increased drug use is a good thing. Drugs are bad for you, that won’t stop people from using them, but it’s important to know what they can do to you.
Well they’ve done a fine job so far haven’t they? I mean, it would take me nearly 10 minutes to buy an eight ball if I wanted one. Now that’s progress!
I will just say this, if the big names behind dealer are ever reveal we all will be shocked. If it the big guys in Government
are behind some of this ,why would they care if our soldiers are getting kill?, As long as they are making the money. This is a dog eat dog world. people care only about their fat pockets.
And man wise, only we the people can stop it, by knowing who we are sending to Washington. But no,I have not found too much of anything to agree with Paul on.
Yes because the ‘war on drugs’ is illegal. It doesn’t matter whether you think drugs are good or bad for society, there just is no provision in the constitution to federally prohibit or regulate drugs. How did they prohibit alcohol back in the day? With a constitutional amendment! That is the way it has to be done; if the federal government wants to control something, they have to first amend the constitution to give them that power. Otherwise, according to the tenth amendment, everything else is left up to the state and the people.
Congress at least started its war on drugs in a sly fashion by imposing taxes on drugs but never actually allowing people to pay them. As it evolved into the DEA, it has become nothing short of a facist-like control. Now the federal legality of these substances can be determined on a whim by a group of unelected officials who depend on a never-ending war on drugs to keep them gainfully employed. That my friends is not even close to being a republic form of government.
Not to mention how big of a waste of money it is. We spend tens of billions of dollars every year on the war on drugs, and drug use has changed little since the prohibition movement. If anything, the problems have gotten worse. Our current approach is to throw addicts into jail for a period of time and let them out so they can get right back to their addictions. Personally, I see drugs as more of a health issue than a criminal issue; these people need to be put in rehab and educated, and not just thrown in jail. In countries like Holland where drugs are treated as such, there are far lower rates of drug abuse because people can openly seek help without the fear of prosecution.
Also, it should be understood that ending the war on drugs does not automatically make drugs legal, it leaves it up to the individual states to decide how drugs should be handled. If liberal states like California want to subsidize crack or if conservative states like Alabama want to shoot drug offenders in the street, that’s up to them. The states have a lot better idea of what works for their inhabitants than the federal government does.
You cant lose a war that you dont needlessly fight.
Dr. Paul is right about a lot of things.