Should cocaine be legalized? Not right now.
It is available and accessable to what proto-Narcotic watchdogs like Anslinger call the "dangerous classes." Difficult to penetrate the suburbs, but there are always those girls who are into it and guys who just want some yay. These whites who hook onto white are expendable and are models of stupidity for the media. I lost my car, my wife, my house... How? Well it scares the whites enough. It doesn't scare them, it is just ridiclous to legalize that substance right now right?
I think the people who will gain from coke legalization are the dangerous classes (poor or minority). They won't be arrested to do federal time if it's legal and there won't be a black market. Now it will be accessible to the upper 20% elite upper white classes. Will they take it. Will dangerous classes continue to get skeeted. Whites benefit from the illegality of white. When was pot ever fashionable and when did police avert their gaze on green? When the white people started doing it (hippies, but beatniks were persecuted more). Marijuana policy would never have allowed Woodstock to happen, but all the top 20%'s kids were doing it. 70's end and Reagan says, "marijuana, I'm making you look evil (Just Say No, Czar Bennett)
Notice there are only white people in overtheinfluence commercials or DARE PSAs. No minorities except the quota. The anti drug education is marketed toward upper middle class MTV whites, not blacks, mexicans or the poor who actually have a problem with it due to the socioeconomic-dependent arraignments.
We know dangerous classes get desperate because they see the bull of the legal system and social system. They withdraw from the obedience demanded by authority and are forced to the margins by the media where they are stuck. Until, a new movement comes along.
The same people will go to jail 3 times and law enforcement officers have to be sick of the futility and scared for their lives.
Legalize it 5 years after you legalize pot.
Legalize it all. Across the board. As it is, all our current policies are doing is feeding a black market when we should be starving it instead. If people want it that bad they're going to get it, so why not profit handsomely off it and free up our prisons in the process?
"CONSERVATIVE, n.
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Myself, I believe pot should not be legalized, at all, I don't care what anyone has to say I know from experience what it can do and how it can destroy people. But--I can't believe that this is an issue! How outrageous!
-Alexa
Not caring what people have to say? That's open minded. You reckon your 'experience' negates any argument regarding legalisation? It must have been one hell of an experience, if you've managed to figure out all the socio-economic pros and cons of legalisation. Yet you can't believe this is an issue? I think you're talking out your ass. In fact I reckon you had to eeny-meeny-miney-mo your ass from your elbow before you commented here.
For the record, pot doesn't destroy people; people destroy themselves. They will do that whether something is illegal or not. Look at prescription medication, look at alchohol, look at tobacco, look at junk food. There are a host of socio-economic issues surrounding the legalization debate that can't just be ignored because somebody knows somebody who smoked weed and ended up fucked up. It's not that simplistic.
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I am the people my mother warned me about.
What was your experience exactly that makes you so sure that pot should remain illegal? It's already easily accessible, and it fills up our prisons with low-level, non-violent offenders, so why waste the resources trying to fight it? It has health benefits for AIDS and cancer patients and is essentially harmless. Sure it's got more tar than cigarettes (or something), but few (if any people) go through joints the way chain smokers go through tobacco. You can't overdose on it, and the two legal drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, kill far more people every year. It's the most harmless of illicit substances; why the hell shouldn't be legalized?
"CONSERVATIVE, n.
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
I know very few poor people who can afford cocaine. Or rich people, for that matter.