Who will win the war on drugs?

[mrdevious]

*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

mrdevious Reviewed by mrdevious on 06-04-2005. Who will win the war on drugs? *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 Rating: 5

[koshea]

rofl im looking at the "post ways youve said no"

this one person says "all drugs are bad, one puff off a cigarette can lead too two puffs which will make you addicted, it will kill your love for your family and passion for life"

omfg.....i wet myself laughing

[emnine]

I personally think that the War on Drugs will not be won by the conservatives. The truth is, the market is enormous, and contrary to what you may have heard and such, it is growing. What we see with Cannabis is that is quickly becoming a drug like Alcohol was during the days of prohibition. And such, the legalization of Cannabis is inevitable, because the government will eventually decide it's losing way too much money hunting and incarcerating potheads. Then it gets taxed and the weed industry becomes a corporation. When (if) this actually happens, weed will be free to buy and own, but it'll be damned expensive.

[Stedric]

Its not like Democrats (or Liberals in Canada) have had nothing to do with the war on drugs. Of course they didn't lash out as badly as republicans, but they still contributed.

I don't think the war on drugs is as simple as one side winning and one side losing. The government has been lashing out for years and years against recreational drug users, and we are still around, so in that sense they have lost. But they have done us (and the rest of the world) a lot of damage along the way.

*sigh* What a waste of money that could have gone towards something valuable.

[RidingHigh]

Its not like Democrats (or Liberals in Canada) have had nothing to do with the war on drugs. Of course they didn't lash out as badly as republicans, but they still contributed.

I don't think the war on drugs is as simple as one side winning and one side losing. The government has been lashing out for years and years against recreational drug users, and we are still around, so in that sense they have lost. But they have done us (and the rest of the world) a lot of damage along the way.

*sigh* What a waste of money that could have gone towards something valuable.

very true, government will always be trying to prohibit things=/

[mynameismike0]

i don't think a tax will be too effective, considering the relative ease of growing your own buds. but i guess moonshining is still illegal.... maybe it will be like that.

[RidingHigh]

GOod ole Corn WHiskey=P

[mynameismike0]

i watched this thing on the history channel about moonshining, rumrunning, and bootlegging. good times.

[SomeDude]

In the relatively short term, i think no one will win. The governmet will fight to prohibit it and the user will fight to use it. in the long term, I can only hope that truth will tiumph over falsehood, but I know this may take a long time. I think that there are no winners in the war on driugs, ever since it was turned into a war. I hope addiction and substance abuse can be defeated, but i think the war on drugs will rage as long as i'm alive.

[Stedric]

In the relatively short term, i think no one will win. The governmet will fight to prohibit it and the user will fight to use it. in the long term, I can only hope that truth will tiumph over falsehood, but I know this may take a long time. I think that there are no winners in the war on driugs, ever since it was turned into a war. I hope addiction and substance abuse can be defeated, but i think the war on drugs will rage as long as i'm alive.

True, no war has ever truly been a simple matter of winners and losers.