Heroin, the War on Drugs, and Why it Should Be the War on BigPharma!

Is it any surprise that an industry that makes better profits the more people are sick and addicted is also involved in heroin sales?





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Potheads & TeaParty Should Buzz on This

Taking a $70B cut out of the deficit should interest the Teaparty. If only the potheads could get organized.

Remember that hemp could also generate a lot of small business opportunities and tax revenues vis a vis hemp oil, clothing, biomass, biofuels, plastics, etc.

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The Tea Party and the Drug War

by Jeffrey A. Miron

Voter dissatisfaction with Republicans and Democrats is at historic levels, and the tea-party movement is hoping to play kingmaker in the November elections. The country's current breed of discontent is ideal for the tea parties, because economic concerns are foremost, allowing the movement to sidestep the divisions between its libertarian and conservative wings.

If the party is true to its principles — fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets — it must side with the libertarians. Read more at www.cato.org

 

Drug Prohibition Not Fiscally Responsibl

drug prohibition is not remotely consistent with fiscal responsibility. This policy costs the public purse around $70 billion per year, according to my estimates, yet no evidence suggests that prohibition reduces drug use to a significant degree.

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The Tea Party and the Drug War

by Jeffrey A. Miron

Voter dissatisfaction with Republicans and Democrats is at historic levels, and the tea-party movement is hoping to play kingmaker in the November elections. The country's current breed of discontent is ideal for the tea parties, because economic concerns are foremost, allowing the movement to sidestep the divisions between its libertarian and conservative wings.

As the elections near, however, voters will want to know where the party stands not just on the economy but on social issues. A perfect illustration is drug policy, where conservatives advocate continued prohibition but libertarians argue for legalization. Which way should the tea party lean when this issue arises?

Fiscal responsibility means limiting government expenditures to programs that can be convincingly said to generate benefits in excess of their costs. This does not rule out programs with large expenditures, or ones whose benefits are difficult to quantify; national defense is guilty on both counts, yet few believe that substantial military expenditure is necessarily irresponsible. Read more at www.cato.org

 

Give GOP Liberty & they'll support Pot

legalization can appeal to conservatives, especially if the arguments emphasize freedom, personal responsibility, and the Constitution, along with up-front clarity about the goal: legal production and use of marijuana for adults, whatever their motivations.

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Why Did California Vote Down Legal Pot?

by Jeffrey A. Miron

California voters have just rejected Proposition 19, the ballot initiative that would have legalized marijuana under state law. Where did Prop 19 go wrong?

Prop 19 failed in part because many proponents emphasized the wrong arguments for legalization. Many advocates promised major benefits to California's budget because of reduced expenditure on marijuana prohibition and increased revenue from marijuana taxation. Other supporters claimed that Mexican drug violence would fall substantially. Read more at www.cato.org

 

Drug Decriminalization in Mexico and US #FastandFurious #DrugWar

This is a good plan. Prohibition clearly did not succeed and the US and Mexican War on Drugs is not succeeding either. Legalize it. Tax it and stop enforcement. This will free up so much money for the state and federal governments of Mexico and the US. It will also reduce the overcrowded prison burden, and lower government spending - because that costs money too.

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Mexico's Failed Drug War

by Jorge Castañeda

What is going on with Mexico's drug war? Why are we in our current mess, and what are the possibilities of getting out of it in any reasonable time frame?

We are in this mess today, as opposed to over the last 40 or 50 years, because when the current president, Felipe Calderón, took office over three years ago, he felt that he had no choice but to declare a full-fledged, no-holds-barred war on drugs. He declared this war after a three-month transition period, which was very rocky because of the controversy surrounding the elections. And he declared this war because he had the impression that it was as if a patient had come to him and said, "I have a stomachache." Thinking it was a problem of appendicitis, he opened the patient up and found that the entire abdominal cavity was invaded by cancer. He had no option other than to go in with everything he had to fix it. This was the country Calderón said he found. He had to declare a war on drugs because the drug cartels had reached a level of power, wealth, violence, and penetration of the state that made the situation untenable. Read more at www.cato.org