"if these drugs were legal and regulated, taxed, and doled out in set proportions, overdosing would be damn hard to come by. in this day and age i think that most of the illegal drugs could become legal and regulated. and what is stopping them from doing it? they had problems with alcohol even during the prohibition. (BOOTLEGGERS, THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN GANGSTERS FOUGHT WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR 7 YEARS TO MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTE ALCOHOL AND OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. ALSO, MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE PRESSED RETURN THERE >>>> ) just think about how many people live for and die over these drugs, and why?(BUT I DIDN'T BECAUSE I FIGURED THAT PEOPLE WOULD REALIZE THAT THE PROHIBITION WAS A TANGENT, AFTER THAT, I WENT BACK TO THE TOPIC AT HAND, ILLEGAL DRUGS) because it is illegal. someone had to do the work and risk being locked up for the rest of their lives, so someone else could sell these drugs to yet another person who really just wants to let go for a while. let their hair down, partially forget about the pressures of life, work or study, and just have fun. oh wait. fun. that is something for kids isn't it? no. do kids go to jail for playing tag? do kids go to jail for believing in cooties? no. drugs, while they can be used childishly, & with out reason, can be used responsibly. and with reason too."
"reputable businesses" is hypocrisy, the whole profit margin? that would be them getting the longer end of the stick. which while self serving to themselves, is discrimination to the consumer.
discrimination of any kind, including discriminatingly changing prices for different markets(wholesale to retail), shipping costs aside, is akin to the kind marked out as discrimination in anti-discrimination laws..
what embryowassup said about the competition with illegal drugs on KrisanMD's blog "I am Ashamed of My university (Link: http://www.progressiveu.org/231122-i-am-ashamed-my-university)", "They sell illegal drugs because there is no regulation and therefore no competition (since legitimate businesses aren't allowed to sell them) except for street competition. This leads to turf wars, shootouts, all that jazz. None of that happens for alcohol or cigarettes (or coffee for that matter)," just exemplifies my main point. NONE OF THAT WOULD HAPPEN IF IT WERE REGULATED. also, if parents played a role in a kids drug use, after an acceptable age of course, then kids wouldn't be harmed needlessly.
and coffee? don't even get me started on coffee. has anyone even heard of the south american coffee farms? hmm? do you know about slavery? or virtual slavery? do you know about conscription and indentured servants? all in great abundance, from your coffee growers, and why? because we americans love our coffee so much. yay. woohoo. we still support slavery, after all these years, wouldn't you know?
people still do illegal things with booze and cigarettes, they still can be smuggled from states where it is cheaper to buy them from, because if you let the authorities know that you were going to by 56 cartons of cigarettes and gallons of booze, in another state, in which they cost less, you destination state would tax you on what you bought. it is called paying duties, something that smugglers do not want to do.
discrimination happens everyday. it was pointless to make that illegal. we all do it. to some degree. no one can admit to it, many might not even see it as such, but we all to it. it is in our nature to assume things, to always think of ourselves as right, when in all actuality we are quite dumb.
people, in all of their collective knowledge, with all of their lust and greed, with all of their passion and wisdom, including you and i, are just plain stupid. we'll believe anything we can believe, whether we fear it to be true, or wish it to be true; for we are all just sheep, to be led around until the days of our deaths.
think for yourself, don't be led astray from what actually is happening here. blind faith can lead one into walls or worse. don't even take my word for it. find out for yourself, if you even consider yourself a free thinker.
take a good look and everything you have in your living space, do you know what it took, your work aside, to get it there? the clothes you are wearing might have been made from a starving asian child, working to pay of their parent's debts, IF it says made in (insert asain country here), coffee that isn't fair trade coffee, might be the south american farm produced coffee that i mentioned earlier. your house might have been made out of wood, harvested from some ancestral grounds of a certain tribe, whose wishes including keeping said ground. while you may not have all of these exactly, i know that many a people do have one of them if not all of them.
we are all connected, in one way or the other, so why do we persist on drawing lines between us? wouldn't it be smart of us to put our differences aside for a moment and actually see what we are doing here?
Yours truly,
.demosthenes
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