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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 513047" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Maybe not what you intended, but you just made your own counterpoint to your whole position. Consider this:</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>If we look at the total cost, I'm talking everything in the war on drugs from front to back end, the total cost per enforcement action far outcedes the return. One drawing factor to illegal drugs is the profit motive. If for example marijuana were completely legal, where's the profit motive to sell someone a product that they themselves could easily grow in their own backyard. In Afghanistan, poppies for herion grow like kudzu does in the south and yet, I've never heard of a huge herion addiction problem in Afghanistan. Jihadist junkies aren't running the streets killing people to support their addiction. But yet, we make poppies illegal which in turn fuels an illegal market that causes the price to go up and in the case of the poppy, creates a money crop that is being used to fund real jihadist who as you say are out to kill us for what we believe and because of our freedom.</p><p> </p><p>If you want drugs, you can get drugs. The drug war is not stopping that by any means and that is the point as well. The most powerful weapon against drugs as it relates to kids are parents themselves. It takes work, effort, honest discussion, truth and sometimes some uncomfortable conversations but in the end I do believe it's the most effective. And remember, while you fear drugs there is also plenty of legal alcohol floating around and there is a good case made that alcohol is just as dangerous if not more so than certain drugs. Sex can also cause longterm consequences from pregnancy to disease so do we outlaw sex too?</p><p> </p><p>Over the top example maybe but where do we draw the line with risk in relation to gov't?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 513047, member: 2189"] Maybe not what you intended, but you just made your own counterpoint to your whole position. Consider this: If we look at the total cost, I'm talking everything in the war on drugs from front to back end, the total cost per enforcement action far outcedes the return. One drawing factor to illegal drugs is the profit motive. If for example marijuana were completely legal, where's the profit motive to sell someone a product that they themselves could easily grow in their own backyard. In Afghanistan, poppies for herion grow like kudzu does in the south and yet, I've never heard of a huge herion addiction problem in Afghanistan. Jihadist junkies aren't running the streets killing people to support their addiction. But yet, we make poppies illegal which in turn fuels an illegal market that causes the price to go up and in the case of the poppy, creates a money crop that is being used to fund real jihadist who as you say are out to kill us for what we believe and because of our freedom. If you want drugs, you can get drugs. The drug war is not stopping that by any means and that is the point as well. The most powerful weapon against drugs as it relates to kids are parents themselves. It takes work, effort, honest discussion, truth and sometimes some uncomfortable conversations but in the end I do believe it's the most effective. And remember, while you fear drugs there is also plenty of legal alcohol floating around and there is a good case made that alcohol is just as dangerous if not more so than certain drugs. Sex can also cause longterm consequences from pregnancy to disease so do we outlaw sex too? Over the top example maybe but where do we draw the line with risk in relation to gov't? [/QUOTE]
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