Res Ipsa wrote:Thanks for clarifying, Ajax. I actually have no clue about the effect of illegal drug income on a nations economy. There are obvious costs that go along with having violent gangs Controlling chunks of your country.
Legalization would certainly take profit out of the drugs. Unless we want to pay the cost of housing addicts in prison, it would make sense to spring for drug treatment services.
Drug treatment services are expensive, especially if everyone tries it out once in his life. The cost is not sustainable. If you have to pay that than you're better off going to war and criminalizing it.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Dr. Shades wrote:Isn't that the job of the Mexican taxpayer, not the U.S. taxpayer?
We are paying tax dollars to help Israel. Instead of helping Israel we could help Mexico. Most of the drugs in the US come from Mexico.
logically you're like a drunk butterfly here... point?
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Res Ipsa wrote:Legalization would certainly take profit out of the drugs. Unless we want to pay the cost of housing addicts in prison, it would make sense to spring for drug treatment services.
Res Ipsa wrote:Thanks for clarifying, Ajax. I actually have no clue about the effect of illegal drug income on a nations economy. There are obvious costs that go along with having violent gangs Controlling chunks of your country.
Legalization would certainly take profit out of the drugs. Unless we want to pay the cost of housing addicts in prison, it would make sense to spring for drug treatment services.
Drug treatment services are expensive, especially if everyone tries it out once in his life. The cost is not sustainable. If you have to pay that than you're better off going to war and criminalizing it.
You have any numbers to back that up? You realize we've spent about a trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan, right? And there will still be drug addicts. And you will still have to pay to house them in prison. Not springing for drug treatment sounds penny wise and pound foolish. Or is it just that you'd rather spend money to kill Mexicans than to help out your fellow Americans?
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951