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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 504715" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>My first wife---the mother of my son---has been living in her car somewhere down in LA for the last 3 years and hasnt seen my son once in all that time. She is a crack and opiate addict with no teeth left. She has had legal issues, is not employable, and is totally incapable of functioning as an adult in modern society.</p><p> </p><p>Prohibition of her drugs of addiction did not ever prevent her from obtaining them, it only forced the price of said drugs high enough to where she had to strip, steal, and prostitute herself in order to obtain the money.</p><p> </p><p>I often wish, for my sons sake, that she would have been able to obtain her drugs thru some sort of govt. regulated program that could have provided them for the cost of a bottle of Advil. She probably could have lived in a halfway house and been at least semi-functional and able to hold down a minimum wage job and have some sort of relationship with our son.</p><p> </p><p>As toxic as the drugs themselves are, the worst effects of drug addiction are actually caused by the fact that the drugs themselves are illegal, which forces addicts into the margins of society where they must engage in criminal activity and victimize others in order to support their habits via the black market.</p><p> </p><p>An addict who was able to register as such and obtain pharmaceutical-grade drugs via prescription at affordable prices would not have to deal with criminals or commit crimes themselves. Such an approach would use the brute force of free-market capitalism to bankrupt the drug pushers who would no longer have a monopoly on their product. </p><p> </p><p>The "war on drugs" is a farce. It is unwinnable. I know, I have been on the front lines of this war for decades and I have the battle scars to prove it. As a society we are simply beating our heads into a wall...and its not the wall that is bleeding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 504715, member: 14668"] My first wife---the mother of my son---has been living in her car somewhere down in LA for the last 3 years and hasnt seen my son once in all that time. She is a crack and opiate addict with no teeth left. She has had legal issues, is not employable, and is totally incapable of functioning as an adult in modern society. Prohibition of her drugs of addiction did not ever prevent her from obtaining them, it only forced the price of said drugs high enough to where she had to strip, steal, and prostitute herself in order to obtain the money. I often wish, for my sons sake, that she would have been able to obtain her drugs thru some sort of govt. regulated program that could have provided them for the cost of a bottle of Advil. She probably could have lived in a halfway house and been at least semi-functional and able to hold down a minimum wage job and have some sort of relationship with our son. As toxic as the drugs themselves are, the worst effects of drug addiction are actually caused by the fact that the drugs themselves are illegal, which forces addicts into the margins of society where they must engage in criminal activity and victimize others in order to support their habits via the black market. An addict who was able to register as such and obtain pharmaceutical-grade drugs via prescription at affordable prices would not have to deal with criminals or commit crimes themselves. Such an approach would use the brute force of free-market capitalism to bankrupt the drug pushers who would no longer have a monopoly on their product. The "war on drugs" is a farce. It is unwinnable. I know, I have been on the front lines of this war for decades and I have the battle scars to prove it. As a society we are simply beating our heads into a wall...and its not the wall that is bleeding. [/QUOTE]
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