Jim Sharkey wrote: > >> It's useless to fight the drug dealers. You have to kill >> the people consuming them O:-) > > Yeah, but then I'd have had to kill my brother back when > we were teenagers, and I don't think my mother would > have approved. :-) > <serious> My point is that the whole "war on drugs" is wrong. It's useless to fight the drug dealers, as it was useless to fight the Al Capones in the 20s and 30s.
There are only two logical ways to face the _problem_ of the drugs: either legalize them - all of them - and control the extreme cases, or repress the consumers, with all restraints of liberty that the society applies to the insane. And by the _problem_ of the drugs I mean the fact that people get killed because of them. People get killed because drug addicts want money to buy drugs, people get killed as innocent by-standers in the war among drug dealers, and people get killed because they switch from diluted drugs to pure drugs and die of overdose. </serious> Alberto Monteiro
