Drugs in the U.S.A A history of prohabition and shame. Another view

Mike says: October 19, 2010 at 10:34 pmAllright Time to weigh in on this. I think the point made in this article is being missed. The fact that a state for good reason wants to leaglelize a farm product or a product of any sort should not be the FEDRAL GOVERNMENTS business. The fact that these people in this adninastration should have a say in what goes on in any state(outside of interstate commerce which has been distorted to mean anything the government wants to control)That they would threaten California with fedral intervention if this passes SHOULD SCARE THE CRAP out of you.If this passes then that should be an issue for the people of that state to decide not the fedral government. They have used this tactic before I belive Kentucky tried it at one point it passed by ballot referendum and a fedral judge struck it down. I belive its an indivigueals choice what he or she consumes(But for the life of me I will never understand meth which kills your nervous system i.e the high is a slow death from chemical poisioning)But my point here is that a product that is grown and not really refined in any way either added too or taken away from should be perfectly leagle for consumpton. That the fedral goverenment should threaten or subvert the will of the people is my main issue with this. As for the other Hard Drugs as they are called you have to refine them in some way to create the effects of the high and are not therfore a natural product and should be regulated in some way( cocaine is cut with everything from bakeing soda to fiberglass not to increase its effect but to make the amount go farther)Alchahol is regulated in such a way as to insure safty of consumption (refined). Not nessasaraly to reduce its use. Note that during the prohabition era any one who wanted to break the law and distill spirits(refine) did so without thought to the safty of the consumer such as filtering it through raidiators cast iron pots and old refrigerator tubeing That added many chemicals and metals as a byproduct of production. Also did this law stop consumption? No as a matter of fact it didnt it actually raised it by a large amount. People who once might have tought they would like to try it but never did were lured in by the fact that it was adventurous and concidered in Vouge at the time of prohabitions passage. Another one is Herion(think I might have missspelled that)during the late 50′s earlie 60′s this drug was made illeagle. That was before the advent of AIDS.People still consumed this drug even though it was illeagle to do so. Which drove the price of it from a few dollars a pound to thousands of dollars a pound. Thus addicts were forced into shareing needles and passing uncleaned medical equipment around. This led to a major hepititus break out as well as the new drug resistant strain of C . Fast forward to the earlie 80′s the first cases of aids were just beginning to surface here in the U.S . I think people associated this diseas with sexual promiscuity. I think that may have just been one area of spreading of this diseas. people shareing needls in a back ally might just have caused the spreading of this diseas into the hetrosexual community and the balloning of the cases here in the U.S Therefore how many lives lost can be attributed to the illeagleization of this drug? No matter where you stand on the legalization of this drug had it been leagle and controlled we might have avoided the death of Millions. Just a few side points to ponder. What if the next thing they decide we are not responsible enough to do is bear arms. Are you going to be one of thoes folks that say just because one person in hundreds use a gun irresponsibly that no one should have guns or are you going to be one that stands for personal liberty and responsibility and says we wont give up this liberty. Watch closely what happens in California and you will see how far liberty has eroded in this country. More power to them if they do. More fear for us if the feds step in and stop it. Mike
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