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Termyn8or -> Drugs, immigration et alii - radical solutions (5/20/2010 12:44:29 AM)
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For radical problems. This will probably never happen and of course it has it's share of problems. But what we are doing now isn't working anyway so why not ?
Make some changes in the law. Something like the following :
First of all drugs become legal. Growers and resellers are taxed, and make it a formal law that everyone has to pay. Get rid of the gray area that quite a few people enjoy. Sell it in the stores, but like alcohol, not to minors.
Forget stopping illegal immigration, it's not going to happen. Immigrants can work, and must pay into everything, but if they fail to become legal residents can never collect any benefits. Come on up and sell your pot, but when you check in through the border and they see you arrive with a hundred kilos and leave with nothing, expect a tax bill. Get a reciept.
They must obey the law, ask at the border if they intend to do much driving and make them aware that most states require liability insurance. Sell it at the border. If commit a crime here they do not have Constitutional rights. And no public defenders, if they can afford to travel they can afford a lawyer.
Now I am aware that this is extremely oversimplified, perhaps someone would like to expound on some of the finer points. But think of the ramifications. Drug related violence would drop drastically. The effects on the economy would be positive to say the least.
As a bit of time goes by, with many more growers in this country the price would drop. Eventually the foreign drug dealers would not have as much incentive to come here. They'd go home with their load "Man, they won't even pay $XXX a pound". "That sucks, how are we going to make money now ?". "Dunno".
Then, so ironically we might have Mexican drug dealers being called to witness for the prosecution of US drug dealers - for tax evasion !
What's more, stems and seeds could be "recycled". The stems could go to the manufacturing industry if we ever get any back, and the seeds could go to the drug companies. Every pot smoker in this country would do the separating, and take in their "scrap" just like those who now save their beer cans.
This concept is nowhere near all the way thought out, but I am trying to find a downside. Empty prisons, an unclogged justice system, more revenue. What they're doing now certainly has been proven not to work. But there is a signicant contingent of the US popultion who want to get high. As long as they don't hurt others why not just let them ? It saves all kinds of trouble for everyone.
They didn't repeal alcohol prohibition because it was working.
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