The
"Ice Plague" is the consequence of keeping marijuana illegal. The
un-winable, ongoing, profitable war against drugs has been equally
profitable for the other side. For each Legal or Medical job that is
created by the social distortion created by the self-serving Criminal
Justice System there is one "crime boss". Sadly, profit is not the only
motive behind our counter-productive laws, there are some stupid, but
powerful people, who suffer from Dunning-Kruger, which is the
psychological tendency for people with very little actual knowledge of a
subject to think they know everything about it. As predicted back in
the '70s, if recreational drugs remain illegal, they will grow in
popularity due to the untaxed, unregulated "pushers", and will grow in
strength because any product or service on the black market tends to the
strongest or most extreme version. All the medical and social problems
that "drug users" suffer from are the result of the illegality of the
drugs not the drugs themselves. This includes the single negative risk
of marijuana (compared to the many from alcohol) of a small percentage
of people being susceptible to mental problems that can be triggered by
the drug, however, the blanket ban on marijuana is uniformly ignored by a
significant percent of the population, and that includes those at risk,
but within a properly regulated environment, without meaningless social
stigma and the inevitability of secretive underground use, those at
risk can be targeted and warned, and treated for a health problem not
abused as criminals. Far more people are damaged for life by receiving a
criminal sentence. The biggest joke are the "Conservatives" who claim
they believe in personal freedom with minimal Government interference,
but when it comes to the Recreational Drugs of the "lower classes" their
true, totalitarian nature is exposed.
THE surge in cannabis crop houses linked to serious organised crime groups is being used to finance the state’s ice trade boom.
heraldsun.com.au
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