Topic: The war on drugs is failing – decriminalisation is the only way forward - page 2. (Read 907 times)

If we are want to fighting the war on drugs concentrate on those who use drugs for pleasure instead of those/us or who use drugs.

This will not work. Insane rhetoric might have helped him to win the elections, but he is not going to be very successful, if he tries to implement his "war on drugs" to practise. As long as the demand is there, there will be a supply of drugs. No amount of punishment is going to deter the drug users. The only sane solution is legalization and regulation.

Alcohol is legalized. When you distil your own stiff alcohol, if you do it in large quantities, you can get a license for it. The regs say that you have to take all kinds of government certified precautionary measures to do it.

As it is, you can grow your own marijuana if you do it in a fashion that is protected, so that no outsider can access it. This means doing it on your own property, inside your own residence, just like for your own personal alcohol you distil.

The difference is that you can sell or otherwise distribute your legalized alcohol off your property. Not so with your marijuana. Your marijuana is not even transportable.

This doesn't mean that you will not be persecuted and prosecuted if it becomes known to law enforcement that you are growing pot at home. It only means that you can beat it if you use the most important point in all court law.

What is this most important point? If you are ever taken to court by government for anything and everything you are taken to court for, you must demand that the injured person appear, take the stand, "show" his injury, and prove it was you that did the injury. And it has to be a REAL injury. This is of top importance for you to do if you want to win.

If nobody appears and takes the stand with first-hand knowledge of the injury to someone, or if he can't prove it was you who did the injury, you win. The courts don't want you to win, but stick to your guns and require that a real injury be shown, and that someone with first-hand knowledge (saw it happen) appear and testify. They place themselves in jeopardy if they don't free you when they can't find an injured person to take the stand. (This goes for every traffic ticket, as well.) ("Injury" includes damage to property.)

Just because you win in court like this, doesn't mean that they will automatically get your pot returned to you, or that they will pay your court expenses. You may have to fight for these. But your win will make it easier.

All the attorneys understand this stuff. But many (most?) of them will not even tell you about it, but will let you be fined or go to prison rather than help you beat the government. Keep your head screwed on and force your attorney to require a damaged party with real damage. If he won't do it, fire him and find another. If you can't find one, you are better off standing in court alone and simply demanding this on your own.

This is what Karl Lentz is all about - http://www.broadmind.org/.

That I understand, since the man made chemical based drugs are way worst then marijuana.

As for war on drugs alone though, its impossible if there is always users - buyers/sellers and if theres "profit" then it will always be there ready to be sold.

The most that president can do is lessen as much as possible, but thats about it.

Have you heard how the new president of the Philippines are going all out against war. Well atleast not marijuana that is what i heard. But yea, all out war against chemical drugs going wild on killing even just primary suspects of drug affiliations.

The war on drugs is a great success. It was designed to make war on Americans. Even non-drug users are afraid, because any moment SWAT might come crashing in on false or accidental information.

Close to Nazi Germany because of the war on drugs, and that is what the government leaders want... Nazi Germany in America... and they almost have it.

The war on drugs is failing – decriminalisation is the only way forward

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/23/war-on-drugs-failing-decriminalisation-prohibition

<< It is generally accepted that the international "war on drugs" has had devastating and far-reaching consequences. These include public health crises, mass incarceration, corruption, and black market–fuelled violence. Even the United Nations Office on Drug Control (UNODC), responsible for monitoring and managing the international drug control conventions, acknowledges failure resulting from the creation of "a criminal black market of staggering proportions" that is a fundamental threat to global security.

On Sunday, the UN will promote the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, otherwise known as the International Anti-Drugs Day. Each year, the 26 June becomes an expression of global solidarity and determination to combat and eradicate drug abuse, and champion the "war on drugs". This year's theme is benignly titled Listen First, and attempts to encourage listening to children and youth in order to prevent drug use and protect their health and safety. It is a particularly apt theme, given the news this week of the three 12-year-old girls who were taken to hospital in Salford after having taken ecstasy pills marketed as "teddy" pills.

This recent incident highlights the flaws in prohibitionist drug policies, enshrined in the UN conventions. It is an example of how criminalising drug use can cause more harm than good. Drugs sold on the black market have no age restrictions, no labelling, no instructions for use, and for the most part you can't be sure what you are buying. Many of the health risks associated with drug use result from the fact that drug production and drug use is unregulated and controlled by black market forces. People take too much, don’t get help quickly enough, take adulterated substances, and are poorly educated on the substances they are taking. Additionally, new psychoactive substances ("legal highs") pose problems because health agencies have no idea what is in them, or how to deal with them when something goes wrong. >>