You are responsible for the killing of many policemen, judges, and other officials in Mexico and other countries. You are helping to finance terrorists in Afghanistan, in turn contributing to the deaths of American military personnel. It’s the demand you create that fuels all this mayhem.
But you don’t really care. You sit there smirking as you get away with another line or toke.
Fuck you.
Not that we should absolve drug abusers of any responsibility, but perhaps it would be more constructive to focus your anger at the ridiculous prohibition policies in most countries that allow the criminal black market to thrive.
And the concomitant fact that before these prohibition policies, black markets also thrived, and addiction became aserious social problem. And that legally-traded and taxed items like cigarettes ALSO have a thriving black market, probably because they’re addictive.
Were Prohibition-era drinkers (from the casual to the alcoholics) morally responsible for the murders and other violence carried out by Capone et al?
The black market wouldn’t exist without the the demand.
I always wondered if there was anyone out there dumb enough to swallow all that anti-drug propaganda.
Now I know.
It also wouldn’t exist, as such, without the prohibition. (It also wouldn’t exist without modern transportation, or agriculture, or the sun. There are many things it wouldn’t exist without…)
You’re thinking of oil companies, jackass.
[blows pot smoke in jebert’s face]
Kids these days. Bogarting is socially acceptable. Hippies were much more civil before 1968.
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You’re thinking of oil companies, jackass.
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There is no oil in Afghanistan.
Jackass.
And knowing is half the battle.
I have to agree with you. My girlfriend’s father, a normal hardworking Guatemalan laborer, was murdered as a victim of the narco-trafficking violence that is rampant in that country. I’ve had to witness the toll it has had on her and it’s not at all pretty.
Somehow, I don’t think a little homegrown bud is causing narco-terror, mass violence, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments. At least not here in Wisconsin.
Do you live in Tijuana now, Mrs. Reagan?
ETA: not directed at you, Rigamarole, you and your girlfriend and her family have my deepest sympathies. Violence is never the answer, and the toll on the innocent is the harshest indictment of the failures of our Prohibitionist attitudes.
If you can meet the demand with your homegrown, maybe you can cut the Mexicans off at the knees and eliminate the violence.
But keep your back to the wall.
What if C-A-T really spelled “dog”?
I mean … think about it …
Rigamarole, I’m sorry to hear that.
Sadly, there are thousands more stories like this.
Yes.
No.
This is sloppy and stupid thinking at its worst.
You create a black market, force it to be run by criminals, remove any avenue for legal redress… and then you blame drug users for your own policy. Brilliant. “Our policies have disastrous results when we try to punish victimless crimes with draconian excess, look how bad the thing we were trying to punish is!”
And there are certainly many thousands of people killed, tortured, and enslaved all over the world every day in the trade of countless perfectly legal goods. Anyone who purchases those goods is also morally responsible for all death and suffering caused by the demand for that good. Sucks to be us.
I can guarentee jebert is consuming a resource that is causing the deaths of someone, somewhere. What a shortsighted twittle twat.