Who will win the war on drugs?

[BlueCat]

In a report released today, Dr. Jeffrey Miron, visiting professor of economics at Harvard University, estimates that replacing marijuana prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation similar to that used for alcoholic beverages would produce combined savings and tax revenues of between $10 billion and $14 billion per year. In response, a group of more than 500 distinguished economists -- led by Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Milton Friedman -- released an open letter to President Bush and other public officials calling for "an open and honest debate about marijuana

http://prohibitioncosts.org/

a little good news anyway...

Cat

[mynameismike0]

yea i saw that. i've always thought it would be cool to walk straight into a congress session and be like "HEY! give me ONE GOOD REASON why you won't legalize pot right now" and have like a bunch of people there to back you up with a bunch of facts. even though.... i was really high when i thought of that plan and in retrospect.... you'd probably go to jail.

[somebody someone]

neither side... drugs will always be a problem... it gets harder and harder to get caught, but they try harder n harder to find us... u can never stop drugs being made

[ermitonto]

Drugs will win. There is no possible way that the government could render extinct cannabis, coca, opium, psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, etc. As long as these drugs are around and people are taking them, the War on Drugs and Personal Freedom is failing. Plus, as Dr. Andrew Weil puts it, "The desire to alter consciousness periodically is an innate, normal drive analogous to hunger or the sexual drive."

[mrdevious]

Drugs will win. There is no possible way that the government could render extinct cannabis, coca, opium, psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, etc. As long as these drugs are around and people are taking them, the War on Drugs and Personal Freedom is failing. Plus, as Dr. Andrew Weil puts it, "The desire to alter consciousness periodically is an innate, normal drive analogous to hunger or the sexual drive."

Very true! lets just hope we'll eventually recover from the social setbacks by the Bush administration, particularily in the elimintation of basic freedoms.

Thanks for setting back social progress for many years George

[anycraic]

i will win the drug war

[i.m.high]

I can't imagine it ever changing from how it is now.

Look at how ridiculous it is that now, in 2005, weed is still illegal.

If it isn't legal now, why would it ever be?

No individual or goup is willing to stand up. No President will ever stand up.

We're all too stoned to make a fuss over it maybe?

It's way too easy to get now anyway. The gov't is hemorraging money keeping it illegal. But that is nothing new to the gov't!

[sToNeDpEnGuIn420]

*sigh* after reading that thread with the link to www.freevibe.com , I'm starting to lose faith. I mean I'm seeing more and more people who actually believe the propogandist lies fed to them by so many groups, that weed will make you go psychotic, or shoot your friends, or destroy your mind, or is 10 times more cancer causing than tobacco and on and on and on... I'm hoping we'll win and one day it will be legal everywhere, but there are times I'm terrified that the nations will be overthrown by government/conservative imposed ignorance (not meaing all conservatives of course) .

what do you guys think? will we ever win against the lies, any guesses how much progress and how soon?

EDIT: shit, screwed up and lost my pole

Nope we arent ever gonna win, just aint gonna happen....if it does happen tho thatd be cool.

[OzzyOz]

In a report released today, Dr. Jeffrey Miron, visiting professor of economics at Harvard University, estimates that replacing marijuana prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation similar to that used for alcoholic beverages would produce combined savings and tax revenues of between $10 billion and $14 billion per year. In response, a group of more than 500 distinguished economists -- led by Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Milton Friedman -- released an open letter to President Bush and other public officials calling for "an open and honest debate about marijuana

http://prohibitioncosts.org/

a little good news anyway...

Cat

that's very good news! Hmm... i think that marijuana will one day be legal... but alot of joints will be lit untill then. War on drugs is stupid, each year new drugs are introduced that are worse than the ones before.

oh yeah!
i got a idea
go on the www.freevibe.com forums and tell them the truth! that'd make whoever runs freevibe.com a very angry polar bear

[smokingskeleton]

depends what goverment gets in power in the UK, lib dems (one of largest parties) said they will declassify it. But fuck it i'm gunna live over in france or holland when i hit about 17-18 get out of this shit country! I think i might pay a visit to amsterdam some time next year!