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Originally Posted by Seer
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Yeah, but that's the point--the budget of the drug war has little to do with actual legalization/criminalization of the drugs themselves. Like he said, if you're on drugs, why don't you just stop doing them? Hmmm, it's easy... Drugs have no societal benefit, they've proven time and time and again to have
negative impact on the people around the user... So the logical thing is for the users to simply
stop. If users can't do the logical, reasonable and moral thing--by the context of this society, then
someone has to, and if it's the government, sobeit. I don't like government control either, but our Constitution was put in place for a reason, and the rights, safety, and health of
law-abiding citizens should be respected over the euphoric selfish pleasures of drug addicts.
That's the bottom line here, the budget is simply how money is spent to deal with that collective problem. I don't deny that the funds are poorly budgeted, but legalization has nothing to do with how that money is spent.
Using the budget in an attempt to press for legalization or to convey the "benefits" for the legalization of one specific drug over any of the others is a very poor excuse because the budget and legalization can't sufficiently be correlated. Legalization/decriminalization is simply society saying "it's okay/not okay to do this according to law," whereas the programs such as the "war on drugs" focus funds to enforce the legal statutes--actually combating the problems--caused by addicts who don't understand the problems they cause. Yes, meth is a bigger problem than marijuana, but that sure as hell doesn't mean the government's just going to legalize marijuana... That's an absurd theory and it's illogical too. That only means society should simply make very
slight re-arrangements to the budget of funds on the overall fight against these drugs that have no place in society to begin with. That's what it boils down here.
The people responsible for the money being spent are the people who continue to defy society's reasonable laws--that are set in place to preserve the safety, health, and rights of the American
law-abiding populace. If spending money is what it takes to preserve the safety of
law-abiding citizens/innocent nonusers and to protect the integrity of what the Constitution has always stood for, despite the blatant defiance of addicts, then that is what's going to have to be done. You can blame those drug addicts for that--not the government.
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