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seeksfemslave -> RE: Legalize Street Drugs? (12/17/2006 11:26:52 AM)
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Because any individual has had difficulties. Because you may live in an area where people with problems tend to congregate, to try, as you see it to help, you wish to maintain restrictions on those who do not have problems. I believe this approach to social deviance is wrong and doomed to failure. This can be seen quite clearly in the anti drug statutes, which have resulted in world wide criminal cartels associated with high levels of murder and general mayhem. ie this cure is worse than the disease.
Use of mind altering substances goes back into the dim mists of time, the major negative organised criminal consequences have only come about, as far as I know, since the rise of a State Welfare approach to social governance.
At the time when peoples lives really were desperate and poverty stricken, say the 18th/19th century in the UK as an example, then while it is true that such lives were " nasty brutal and short" at least as far as I know criminal gangs did not exist supplying the need of the desperate. Gin was easily available. see that sketch Gin Lane by Hogarth.
Things were improved by reformers trying to run marginally and then very much more just economic societies.
The failure of welfare methods can be seen in the number of young girls producing offspring that it is totally impossible for them to support, certainly financially and probably emotionally.
Youths running wild on inner city estates making life difficult for everyone in their path.or restricting drug availablity to those who could handle it because some cant. The most obvious example here was prohibition in the US.
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