If you think making drugs illegal helps society then certainly alcohol, arguably the most addictive and demonstrably the most harmful, should be illegal. Ah, but the Volstead Act showed us that criminalizing and attempts to control lead only to crime, gangsterism, and the corruption those societal evils create. It also arguably boosted the popularity and widespread use of alcohol. Not only was Prohibition a failure, it worsened everything in both human and societal terms.
We should legalize all drugs, then spend a fraction of the War On Drugs budget to set up clinics to help anyone who becomes dependent on a drug; to provide free or low-cost drugs with assured purity and quality; and to give users safe places in society to indulge their drug of choice.
Ah, but that would take away from the gun culture, the control culture, and the right wing culture of corruption that flourishes by keeping drugs illegal. It would take away from the criminals who currently influence, who arguably control society.
We have now identified the real enemy, which is neither drugs nor their use, but those who keep them illegal in order to have the excuse to loot public coffers and brutalize and persecute anyone who does not pay into their protection racket.
Rise Up Now. RUN.
