Thoughts on the “New” “National Drug Control Policy”

May 4, 2010 by Bradley Jardis
Filed under: Issues, News, Rant

It seems that the publicly funded propaganda tool known as the “Office of National Drug Control Policy” has issued its “strategy” to deal with the drug problem here in the United States. Of course there is nothing new or novel to what the Obama Administration thinks we should be doing about drugs here in the United States.

I quote: “We have many proven methods for reducing the demand for drugs. Keeping drugs illegal reduces their availability and lessens willingness to use them. That is why this Administration firmly opposes the legalization of marijuana or any other illicit drug. Legalizing drugs would increase accessibility and encourage promotion and acceptance of use. Diagnostic, laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological studies clearly indicate that marijuana use is associated with dependence, respiratory and mental illness, poor motor performance, and cognitive impairment, among other negative effects, and legalization would only exacerbate these problems.”

In other words: nothing is going to change.

Even if you oppose ending the so called “War on Drugs” …. surely you can understand this train-of-thought:

1) President Obama has admitted to marijuana and cocaine use/abuse.

2) Were he caught, prosecuted, and convicted like so many unfortunate black men (disproportionately) are in this country… he’d be a felon.

3) If he had been labeled a felon he never would been have admitted to the BAR.

4) If he had been labeled a felon he never would have been elected to the Illinois State Senate. You’d better believe his opponents would have knocked him out of the election for being a “criminal.”

5) If he had not been elected to the Illinois State Senate he would not have been able to win an election to the United States Senate.

6) If he had not been elected to the United States Senate……….. he never would have had a chance in hell at becoming President.

President Obama is just fine and dandy with allowing people to continue to be ruined because of drug use and abuse when he did the same exact thing. Although I personally disagree with %95+ of his actions as President, I am glad that he never fell victim to the system he is allowing to continue to screw people over.

Kids and young adults experiment with drugs…. this is a fact of life. Why does the government need to ruin so many of their lives because of it?

Read the bullshit propaganda (that your tax dollars funded) for yourself here.

malcolm kyle

Prohibition is a sickening horror and the ocean of incompetence, corruption and human wreckage it has left in its wake is almost endless.

Prohibition has decimated generations and criminalized millions for a behavior which is entwined in human existence, and for what other purpose than to uphold the defunct and corrupt thinking of a minority of misguided, self-righteous Neo-Puritans and degenerate demagogues who wish nothing but unadulterated destruction on the rest of us.

Based on the unalterable proviso that drug use is essentially an unstoppable and ongoing human behavior which has been with us since the dawn of time, any serious reading on the subject of past attempts at any form of drug prohibition would point most normal thinking people in the direction of sensible regulation.

By its very nature, prohibition cannot fail but create a vast increase in criminal activity, and rather than preventing society from descending into anarchy, it actually fosters an anarchic business model – the international Drug Trade. Any decisions concerning quality, quantity, distribution and availability are then left in the hands of unregulated, anonymous, ruthless drug dealers, who are interested only in the huge profits involved.

Many of us have now, finally, wised up to the fact that the best avenue towards realistically dealing with drug use and addiction is through proper regulation which is what we already do with alcohol & tobacco, clearly two of our most dangerous mood altering substances. But for those of you whose ignorant and irrational minds traverse a fantasy plane of existence, you will no doubt remain sorely upset with any type of solution that does not seem to lead to the absurd and unattainable utopia of a drug free society.

There is an irrefutable connection between drug prohibition and the crime, corruption, disease and death it causes. If you are not capable of understanding this connection then maybe you're using something far stronger than the rest of us. Anybody 'halfway bright', and who's not psychologically challenged, should be capable of understanding that it is not simply the demand for drugs that creates the mayhem, it is our refusal to allow legal businesses to meet that demand.

No amount of money, police powers, weaponry, diminution of rights and liberties, wishful thinking or pseudo-science will make our streets safer, only an end to prohibition can do that. How much longer are you willing to foolishly risk your own survival by continuing to ignore the obvious, historically confirmed solution?

If you still support the kool aid mass suicide cult of prohibition, and erroneously believe that you can win a war without logic and practical solutions, then prepare yourself for even more death, corruption, terrorism, sickness, imprisonment, unemployment, foreclosed homes, and the complete loss of the rule of law and the Bill of Rights.

"A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."

Abraham Lincoln

The only thing prohibition successfully does is prohibit regulation & taxation while turning even our schools and prisons into black markets for drugs. Regulation would mean the opposite!
Highline

Amen.
http://www.obscuredtruth.com SamIam

Oh come on Brad! Who who are you going to believe this governmetn bureaucrat or Obama's campaign promises?

Besides, I trust Barry "obama" Soetoro's judgment if he says drugs need to stay illegal it's for a very good reason.

You just hate America because your anti government and obviously a racist.

(yes this is really how the "true believers" rationalize being deceived by a conman)
iawai

Reading this and Tool's "Third Eye" started playing on my iTunes – opens with Bill Hicks telling people that support the War on Drugs to throw out all their music, because they were all high, and then saying "its not a war on drugs, its a war on personal freedom."

These "diagnostic, laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological studies" that show the results the NODCP put forth happen to be few and far between, and happen to be those that are funded by their very office.

INDEPENDENT STUDIES show little dependence, possibly increased mental acuity, protection against respiratory cancers, and cases of increased motor skills. Further, market studies show that demand is not affected by the legal status, and the "harder" illegal drugs suffer an increased demand because if people are willing to experiment with the mostly harmless "illegal" cannabis, they are more likely to try other things the govt has lied to them about than if everything were legal and allowed to be understood by independent investigations.

It's all bullshit, and none of it is empirical or independent. That's the very hallmark of unadulterated propaganda.
iawai

Malcolm – I'd hardly say that tobacco and alcohol are "well regulated". Precisely because the state has abrogated this function onto itself, there is little incentive to restrict access, to increase competition between producers, or put forth honest marketing or competitive pricing.

Those products are certainly in a better place after prohibition was ended (yes, there was cigarette prohibition too, in the Progressive early 1900s), but those who believe in freedom shouldn't advocate for partial liberty from the monopolist state.
Chaz Munro

Because cigarettes are legal, safer alternative to smoking tobacco exist.

Nicotine gum, patches & now even a e-cigarette are on the market. I've used all yet prefer the e-cig to the others when I am unable to smoke where I want.

A safer form of cocaine, heroin, and likely even meth would exist if Big Bother would take that first very necessary step.
http://libertypictureframes.com/ Kurt

The War on You AHEM! Ah, I mean War on Drugs is simply another tool to redistribute wealth, power and control, and… why don't people get that yet? Perhaps it's all the indoctrinization (is that a word?) and lies that are truly hard to "weed" out after being repeated so many times.

I think 99% of drug use is simply illness of many forms; what is far worse and is far more destructive are the methods the state uses ("state" meaning typpical brainwashed, ignorant, slothful, arrogant, violent folks) carrying out these "orders" with little or no thought oe care of consequence to others. Divide and conquer. I can't believe people want to live their lives ignoring the facts. The only thing I agree with VanWickler about is that people are stupid. He just likes that fact a bit more than I do.
http://www.myspace.com/sleazyhandshake Sleazy Handshake

yo why is weed illegal? i mean damn, its less damaging than alcohol. legalize dat ish. but dont abuse anything cuz thats dumb
bil

Kurt-your definition of 'state' is confusingyou refer to those carrying out the 'orders',yet no mention of those imposing the orders,and why they continue to do so.The rest of what you say is the form of common sense that is not so common these days.There are too many illusions and distractions to take peoples eyes off the real game. —bil
Josh

I lost so any semblance of respect for that Olympic swimmer whose name I cannot recall when he APOLOGIZED to the world for smoking marijuana. Had it been me, I would have said "I set several gold medal records, and I was high as fuck when I did it." Single handedly could have given credit to marijuana as a de-stresser. Ever gone swimming while high? Try it.
unbelievable

whats with the e-cigarette ad?

has this become a classified section now?
Chaz Munro

Unbelievable:

You don't really get to say what is and isn't an "ad" either. Not actually thinking that it is anything close to being a "fact".

That is just opinion. I had such hopes for you being able to stick to the subject and not wandering off confused and lost into troll land.

Just in case you forgot:

Safer alternatives to tobacco are available, because tobacco is legal and there is a market for these alternatives. Safer alternatives to some street drugs would be available if they were legalized.

If you came here to play, at least be honest enough to tell everyone that you are not really interested in honest debate and instead want to just stir up a batch of your nonsense.
bil

If there was a link to an e-cigarette,then it would be an ad.As is,it looks like more of an opinion.Any word on how the research is going on the e-heroin and e-cocaine? —bil