All true.Legalise,regulate and divert all the money spent policing chemicals to health care foundations.It is not the drug that is the problem, it is the person using it who needs help.Who decided 2 of the worst chemicals, alcohol and nicotine should be legal ?
Another tragedy. 17. Cops and Robbers, the goodies, and badies, the druggies and the staight arrows...The war continues, each escalation in the stakes making incidents like this seemingly more common place.Money is the grease at the hub of this wheel.We seem to have a drug war addiction as a nation, drawing very clear lines in the sand based on our personal choice of drug(s) or sources of effective medicine or relief.Harsher penalties will not solve this problem. With harsher penalties, drug supply becomes more risky. A few suppliers may fall away, but the rules of the game will become more severe and unforgiving. This will claim lives in law enforcement ranks, the public at large, and in criminal circles.A policy based on some form of functional regulation would aim to maintain the supply of public demand for drugs at a manageable level.Some people believe that drugs should be supplied as say bananas are available at the supermarket. While this policy may work as it once was the reality in part of nineteenth century England, it could prove a harder sell to a drug-shy, weary and isolated society.Functional regulations could involve ideas for certain sales and supplies policies that already exist for other drugs and intoxicants.If a drug is deemed a pharmacy only medicine or a recreational drug that requires some knowledge to be applied during use, then perhaps a doctor could issue scripts and information, and a pharmacist handle the supply within the protections of the everyday legal framework?Something like cannabis is a worthwhile public resource. Not only is it a treatment option for various medical complaints in its own right, research into cannabis is revealing a good deal of positive findings involving the synthesis of particular cannabinoids as specific treatments for specific conditions from gloucoma, pain, nausea, anxiety, and even promise in treating the tumours of some cancers.The drug war, as a policy, cannot wash its own face.