Actually I’m kind of with you on PCP. I have been around junkies of all flavors for a good portion of my life. PCP is pretty awful, and dustheads are pretty scary. While Meth increases one’s propensity for anger, I don’t agree that it should be illegal, I think legality would increase the safety of meth labs as people wouldn’t be making surreptitious labs in motels anymore. As for heroin, I don’t see any reason to keep heroin illegal, a junkie that can’t get up is far from a danger to society, however, if opium were legal we may see a marked decrease in heroin production as heroin is produced as a way to make opium easier to transport and harder to detect when smuggled.
As for the price of hospital stays. Something tells me that giving an overdosing junkie an adrenaline shot once in a while or treating the occasional cocaine heart attack is probably much cheaper than incarcerating someone for two years. However, under our current system we are paying for both as it is, so legalization would dramatically decrease our costs as taxpayers, and we might even be able to tax some of the newly legal trade, perhaps lowering income taxes. Cutting costs and increasing revenues is good business. We would be able to stop subsidizing expensive programs like the DEA and Narcotics task forces. We wouldn’t even need to worry about them because with more relaxed borders due to less of a concern about illicit drug trade, we’d have an increased market in the private corporate security industry.
We’d be able to stop listening to black and hispanic people bitching about the disproportionate numbers of their ranks being in prison, people would stop killing others for snitching, and there would be a sudden decrease in turf wars as drug dealers incorporate and legitimize. Crack and Opium Dens would pop up around the country, and we’d see junkies relegated to red light districts where such behavior is condoned, leaving the streets of the rest of the city fairly open to the average citizen.
Basically, I am just sick and tired of having to pay people to oppress me because some jackass has a beef with something they completely misunderstand. I mean, I really could give a fuck about what people want to do to themselve. I think the world would be a better place if we’d let people who want to die kill themselves and remove themselves from the gene pool rather than breeding because fucking someone they barely know brings them a respite from their tortured existence.
Just think about it, think about how much freer your mind would be if you stopped worrying about things that are completely unimportant? It might not be a utopia but it’s a lot closer than what we’ve got now.
And the best part about it is, it’d be like living in America for real, all that shit we sell little kids in school about Freedom might actually be believable, and they won’t have as much angst when they become teenagers because they won’t have to realize that they’ve been lied to this whole time about living in a free country. Ahh, it’d be beautiful.
Erek
