Guest Blog: “A case to legalize drugs in America”

August 18, 2010 by Ian
Filed under: National

Local activist Rolland Judd writes the following op-ed:

Any case made to legalize now illegal drugs in the U.S. is really a case to repeal acts that made them illegal in the first place, namely the Controlled Substances Act. When marijuana was first outlawed it was done so in a constitutional, albeit shady, manner. It was prohibited the same way way alcohol was during the prohibition by raising the taxes for it requiring you to obtain a marijuana tax stamp. All of these stamps were locked away so no one could actually obtain one, but at least from a legal standpoint the government was obeying the constitution.

Then Nixon came along with the same mentality as George W. Bush has about the constitution. “It’s just a G. D. piece of paper.” Nixon trashed the constitution in a number of ways during his administration but by far the worst thing he ever did to the American people was signing the Controlled Substances Act. This act does harm to the poor, the sick, and the downtrodden in a too many ways to get into here, but lets leave it at the fact that this is not a political issue, it is a constitutional crime. That should be enough to infuriate any patriotic American.

But it doesn’t infuriate many Americans, does it? Why? Because we have to keep kids off drugs? It’s a proven fact that it is easier for kids to buy illegal drugs than it is for them to buy alcohol or tobacco. The reason for this is that alcohol and tobacco are regulated and illegal drugs are not. A seller of illegal narcotics doesn’t care how old someone is, they care about turning a profit.

Let’s be fair, though, legalizing marijuana is an easy argument and this article is about legalizing all drugs. So let’s take cocaine. Cocaine was used for many years in things like cough medicine and you rarely heard of any cases of kids or anyone for that matter abusing cough medicine. Now cocaine is illegal and what goes in our cough medicine: Sudafedrine. What is sudafedrine used for making: Meth. People find a way to get what they want no matter how many laws say they can’t have it.

Heroine is something worth mentioning here as it was actually created by the company Bayer. Yes, created. You may know that heroine is derived from the opium plant but you don’t get heroine from opium alone, you have to add chemicals to it. It was used again for cough medicine and also in certain pain remedies.

Many people like to make the argument that alcohol is okay because it has been so ingrained in our culture for so long. They don’t seem to realize that so were many other drugs until the 1970′s. Pharmaceutical companies figured out that to get patents on drugs they could make money on that they would have to eliminate other certain substances from the market. The “War on Drugs” is just a scam to make a few greedy individuals some more money at the expense of the American people.

Don’t be confused. Advocating the legalization of now illegal drugs is NOT an advocation for drug use. I don’t know anyone who thinks that doing drugs is good for you and I don’t know anyone who would say that everybody should be out doing drugs. This is a matter of individual liberty and the basic freedom to make your own choices in life and not have them made for you by people that don’t even know you.

http://antinomian-peacenik.blogspot.com Bill Harris

One need not travel to China to find indigenous cultures lacking human rights. America leads the world in percentile behind bars, thanks to the ongoing open season on hippies, commies, and non-whites in the war on drugs. Cops get good performance reviews for shooting fish in a barrel. If we’re all about spreading liberty abroad, then why mix the message at home? Peace on the home front would enhance global credibility.

Rooting out the number-one cash crop in the land burns tax dollars instead of booking them. Arresting Americans for gardening empowers outlaws to take over Mexico. Political prisoner Marc Emery’s crime was to keep Madame Secretary Clinton’s promise to Calderon. Emery sold seed to American farmers, reducing U. S. demand for Mexican pot.

Prison flushes lives down expensive tubes, paid for by our descendants. My shaman’s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God’s gift. Behold, it’s all good. When Eve ate the apple, she knew a good apple, and evil prohibition. The DEA says, “We don’t need no stinking amendment.”

Nixon passed the CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) on the false assurance that the Schafer Commission would later justify criminalizing his enemies, but he underestimated Schafer’s integrity. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA shut down research, and pronounced that marijuana has no medical use.

The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote. Non-placebo sacraments remain prohibited to everybody else. Freedom of Religion, and the free exercise thereof under the First Amendment, applies for all Americans; protecting use of entheogen sacraments to mediate communion. Mortal lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors.

Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Puritans sailed to escape coerced religious conformity, only to themselves coerce conformity on Quakers. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers’ self-exploration.

Common-law holds that adults are the legal owners of their own bodies. The Founding Fathers undersigned that the God-given rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. He paid with his life for corrupting youths by discussing the unjust hypocrisies of the powerful.
Peacemaker/aka Marku

Excellent piece Rolland!

And thanks (makes me want the "full" version now! )

Keep up the great work (!).
stanford

(ahem) A heroine is a female who has exhibited heroic qualities, such as Lauren Canario. Heroin is a drug derived from opium.

Great article, though!
Gabe

stanford beat me to it.

If you are trying to make a serious point, you need to learn to proffread and speel corecctly. Ohterwise, you ende up just lookking like a horser's ass.
Paul

Lol Gabe, love it
theKINGofKEENE

The Bible, page 1: Genesis, chap.1, verse 29: "And God said, "LO!, I have given you every herb bearing seed,…that grows on the face of the Earth. To you, it shall be for meat." King James Version. Look it up yourself. (BTW, "adam & eve" don't appear until CHAPTER 2 of the Bible!…
theKINGofKEENE

For the record, I will not be using any currently illegal drugs, just because they are legalized. That's a pretty much bullshit argument that the anti-drug, fascist crowd makes. Think about it like this: How many Americans say this to themselves: "Gee, I would sure like to do some crack/meth/heroin, but I can't, because it's illegal." Yeah, right…they say, "I'm gonna do drugs ANYWAY…There will always be some who do use drugs. Let's not make unneccessary criminals, ok? Thank-you.