Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Legalize all illegal drugs, Doctor says

Winning the 'War on Drugs' by losing

 By Brian Johnson M.D. 

Everyone knows that private enterprise can run things more efficiently and profitably than the government. Private companies know how to get things done. Government organizations tend to be plodding and annoying. Why not turn this to our advantage by selling drugs in State Addictive Drug (SAD) Centers? 

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 Let's drop the ridiculous denial about addiction that we seem to have as a society. Some of the founders of the United States were big time drug dealers. By 1670 half the men in England used nicotine daily. No wonder the drug that causes the most deaths by far in the United States has been legal since 1783. Let's admit that President Nixon's "War on Drugs" has been a failure. Nicotine kills 18 percent of all Americans, alcohol 4 percent. All the rest of the addictive drugs sold here kill less than 1 percent more Americans (almost one-quarter of Americans die from addiction). Since we are already selling the two biggest addictive drug killers, with no significant restrictions, why not make all the rest legal, too?

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