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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: twmoore who wrote (4095)5/9/2004 1:41:54 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (2) of 37565
 
Use is one thing, production and distribution is quite another.

There is no rational argument that says organized crime will simply disappear if pot was fully legal in this country. Proponents say " make it like alcohol or tobacco - tax it " etc.

RJR and other tobacco producers might be able to produce a lower cost product and distribute through legal channels, but any moron willing to flout the law can produce sufficient quantities in a basement - happening already all over the country - and sell it tax free. Which means that illegal production and distribution on the black market will ensure that all the downsides of crime remain, only with an expanded legal base of consumers.

This is progress?

Tell you what, I'd be all for fully legalizing every drug imaginable if every single user is fully responsible for paying their own health care costs. Yes, including booze and smokes. Lets enforce personal responsibility through financial levers then.

Then we can talk.

Anything less is just one more drain on the social infrastructure. While I am all in favour of a workable national health care system I am not in favour of taking moves that simply add more long term strain on to it.

Legalized drug production and consumption do just that.
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