News (Media Awareness Project) - Australia: PUB LTE: War Against Drugs Is Lost |
Title: | Australia: PUB LTE: War Against Drugs Is Lost |
Published On: | 2005-05-19 |
Source: | Northern Territory News (Australia) |
Fetched On: | 2008-01-16 12:58:34 |
WAR AGAINST DRUGS IS LOST
IT IS sad but true. The war on drug abuse is lost.
Just as lost, in fact, as the war on alcohol was lost in the US in the
1920s. Sadly, the parallel does not end there
Now, as then, the master criminals have set up legitimate businesses, to be
enforced by criminal means.
What would be the worse aspect of a total decriminalisation of drugs?
Would government ministers die of overdoses? Would ordinary citizens? No,
because if they really wanted drugs that badly, they would have obtained
them long ago.
We cannot even control drugs in our prisons, never mind in free society
Would airline pilots and surgeons indulge and destroy those persons under
their charge? No. Some people still have ethics.
Who would lose? The dealers, because the profit would drop out of their
trade. Anyone else? Yes. The users
Nature eliminates the foolish.
Rob Hall, Casuarina
IT IS sad but true. The war on drug abuse is lost.
Just as lost, in fact, as the war on alcohol was lost in the US in the
1920s. Sadly, the parallel does not end there
Now, as then, the master criminals have set up legitimate businesses, to be
enforced by criminal means.
What would be the worse aspect of a total decriminalisation of drugs?
Would government ministers die of overdoses? Would ordinary citizens? No,
because if they really wanted drugs that badly, they would have obtained
them long ago.
We cannot even control drugs in our prisons, never mind in free society
Would airline pilots and surgeons indulge and destroy those persons under
their charge? No. Some people still have ethics.
Who would lose? The dealers, because the profit would drop out of their
trade. Anyone else? Yes. The users
Nature eliminates the foolish.
Rob Hall, Casuarina
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