01-17-2010, 10:33 AM
(01-17-2010, 10:18 AM)The Antagonist Wrote: Legalize it all I say. Uncle Sam makes money regulating it, people get clean works, drugs etc and no matter what, addicts are going to be addicts, just like drunks are still drunks even though booze is legal.
You can buy liquor. You can drink it inside. It's illegal to be drunk in public. It's illegal to drink it outside.
Why bother having it legal? MONEY. Heavily taxed liquor and cigarettes.
So when they brought in prohibition, it was reversed because it's our right to get plastered. I guess same for cigarettes staying legal. So why can't we get legal drugs as well? Same principal, different substance.
here is the reason why. there is no other , it all boils down to money as always with the government.
The numbers in the graph represent billions of dollars spent on the war on drugs. and people bitched about the war on terror. jesus christ the world is fucked up!
Year `89 `90 `91 `92 `93 `94
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1 Stolen 148 154 160 168 176 184
2 Incarceration 73 80 88 96 104 112
3 Lost taxes 41 43 45 47 49 51
4 Construction 20 21 23 25 25 25
5 Federal War 7 10 12 13 20 25
6 Extra Welfare 13 14 15 16 17 18
7 Harrassment 10 11 12 13 14 15
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Totals 312 333 355 378 405 430
Reagan's 8 years: $1.860 Trillion Bush's 4 years: $1.378 Trillion
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