Legal Drugs.....

So as I was walking home from work today, I noticed on the front page of the paper "Gang Turf War". Apparently, it is over drug turf. I guess that is pretty obvious....I don;t think gangs these days battle over anything else. It's just not like it was back in our parents day anymore when they fought over who's Chevy was faster than who's Ford or who had dibs on Mary Sue or even who had the most greasy shit in their hair dripping down onto their sweet leather jackets. I mean honestly, what did gangs back in the 50's fight about??

Anyway, the old thoughts of "if they would just legalize drugs and give government control, it would practically abolish gangs and the drug trade; plus, if they taxed the shit out of them but still charged less than dealers, every government in the world would have a goddamn surplus of funds" popped into my head. It totally makes sense, but then you have to consider the chain of events that would more than likely also occur.

I am all for just legalizing everything and telling people that it is now their own lives to fuck up. Take government funded treatment centers out of the picture, government funded aid to addicts of all sorts would just go away. Here are your drugs, if you choose to fuck up your life then do it, but we aren't helping you out so you make the decision now to either use them responsibly or to not, if you cannot use recreationaly, then you better not use at all. Addicts can turn to their families and friends for help, but we the government are not going to bail you out.

Yeah that would never happen......and what did that have to do with gangs anyway?
Okay, so gangs would all but dry up and go away because they would have nothing to fight over (yes, i know they would find other stuff that is illegal to control, but that is not the point of this rant). I can almost guarantee that murder rates would decrease dramatically everywhere; however, now we'd probably have nations full of drug addicts, the economy would go to shit because of it and the government wouldn't not be able to provide some sort of funding for addicts, so all the money made taxing the drugs would be spent on the surplus of addicts we now have. At least let big corporations fight over drugs instead of gangs. It would be nothing more than a Pepsi/Coke war. Try the new formula Crack or Cherry Vanilla Infused ecstacy (now with echinacea because those clubs are filled with the cold germ).

So.......we abolish the gang problem and people killing other people but then we come across the problem of people now killing themselves because they have no control over their human need to find artificial ways to cope with life.

Did this rant really make much sense.....NOPE, not supposed to, it was a rant. Just typing what came into my head as it popped in there.

So which is it?
Legalize Drugs and deal with the new consequences?
-or-
Keep them illegal and deal with everything that stems from the drug trade and control of it by the gangs and drug cartels?

I say legalize them and deal with the new consequences, you never know what could happen until you do something new. Too much money has been put into fighting the "drug war". Win the drug war by decriminalizing it all and if need be, take the billions you are spending yearly, plus the taxes you could make from this stuff and put it into rehab. God knows the government would never leave people out in the cold, unless they were homeless and the Olympics were coming to town in a few years.

Cheers....