Libertarians want to legalize drugs

The post that started this discussion was a case in mistaken causes. Bad people do bad things. To blame inanimate objects for the works of bad people is nonsense.

Drugs did not kill that poor child. Drugs wars may have. Maybe the perpetrators had become worse, or totally went mad, while locked up in prison. Drug wars cause that kind of damage.

Anybody (except a despicable person) who understands the economic costs, destruction of society, murder, mayhem, theft, and corruption caused by drug wars, could not possibly support them. Only those ignorant of the consequences could, in good conscience, support drug wars.

So, the question is: ignorant or despicable...? They aren't mutually exclusive; some people manage to be both.
 
Obvious the Drug War Pushers don't care about the millions of children fleeing the drug wars started by US drug war policy. Those are flaming wars with death every day.

And, there was no drug problem until the drug wars caused it. Now there is a massive drug problem because the USA drug war policy has made smuggling and warring over territory insanely profitable.

No, as long as the Drug War Pushers can use death and corruption to their advantage -- they don't care about the trillions of dollars and millions of lives wasted in the process.

It is the Drug War Pushers who are killing the children. Fact! History! Learn the economics of it and maybe you can make sense of it.

Money and power are the root of the drug wars; murder, mayhem, death, destruction, and political corruption are their fruits.

How could any compassionate person (if rational) support such a hideous mess?
 
All drugs should be legalised, it would destroy the drug cartels at a stroke. The money saved by winding up the DEA could be used to treat addicts, it's a no brainer IMHO.

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Bond has been set at $500,000 for a motorist accused of fatally hitting a veteran Ohio trooper along a Cleveland interstate while driving under the influence of drugs.

The State Highway Patrol says 37-year-old Joshua Gaspar, of Columbia Station, was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated vehicular homicide.

He's been held in a Cleveland jail. Court records listed no attorney for him Saturday.

Authorities allege Gaspar swerved and struck Trooper Kenneth Velez while the 48-year-old officer was conducting traffic enforcement.

Gaspar previously pleaded guilty to drug possession in 2008 after being found with crack cocaine and was allowed to enter a drug treatment program.


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/17/bond-set-at-500k-for-driver-accused-killing-ohio-trooper.html
 
Another sorry example

Just another sorry example of the results of the war on drugs.

Anybody who really cared about the lives of police officers, or the health of society, would oppose drug wars if they could understand simple cause and effect of drug policy. Let's see if work backwards through the logic makes it more clear.

Effect = millions of addicts; Cause = insane profits from illegal drugs;
Effect = violent gangs fighting over turf and smuglling routs; Cause = insane profits from illegal drugs;
Effect = insane profits from illegal drugs; Cause = supply and demand due to laws making them illegal;
Effect = drug war laws; Cause = political and social control.
 

The video above is hard to watch. If you'd prefer not to, here's what it shows: A woman who has collapsed in the middle of a dollar store, and her toddler daughter, screaming and crying and clutching her mother's listless body.

She takes her hand and tries repeatedly to pull her mother up, but the woman does not stir. The girl uses both hands and continues to pull at her, reaching around her mother's neck and trying to pull her head up.

The mother was suffering from a drug overdose. First responders needed two doses of Narcan to revive her.

If you are wondering why a group of people are standing around filming while a toddler wails over her inert mother, police tell CNN the store manager took the video as a "precaution." It also appears, from background conversations, as if onlookers are either summoning help or waiting for help that has already been called.

Once police got there, Fitzpatrick said they found drug paraphernalia. Baggies, a straw and residue were found in the woman's bag.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/health/heroin-overdose-video-massachusetts-trnd/
 
There continues to be a rise in the number of U.S. babies born who are dependent on opioid drugs, according to a new study.

Researchers looked at the rate of babies diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome, a condition in which newborns experience withdrawal symptoms as a result of being exposed to opioids (including prescription opioids or heroin) while in the womb.

They found that the rate of neonatal abstinence syndrome more than doubled during the study period, from 2.8 cases per 1,000 births in 2008, to 7.3 cases per 1,000 births in 2013. Overall, there were 27,315 babies in the U.S. diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome in 2013, the study found.

A separate, earlier study from researchers at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee found that there were 21,732 cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome in 2012. The rate of neonatal abstinence syndrome in the United States has increased fivefold since the year 2000, the study said.



http://www.livescience.com/56267-opioid-dependent-babies-united-states.html
 
An FDNY battalion chief was killed by flying debris when a Bronx explosion tore the roof off a drug house early Tuesday, injuring another 20 people, authorities said.

Chief Michael Fahy, a 17-year fire veteran who followed his father into the department, was struck in the head and mortally injured as he stood outside the two-story home about 7 a.m.

“We had a tragedy today,” Mayor de Blasio said in announcing the death. “A tragedy has befallen a family, a fire department and our entire city.”

The blast in the Kingsbridge section came about an hour after a passerby called 911 to report an odor of gas around the home at W. 234th St. and Irwin Ave., authorities said.

“I felt something so strong, like a boom!” said local resident Porfiro Paulino, 64, who opened his window to see smoke pouring into the sky.

The rental property, an attached brick residence, was already under investigation as a marijuana grow house before the explosion, said Police Commissioner James O’Neill.

The blast scattered pot plants along the block outside the home, and cops found fertilizer in the ruins.




http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/explosion-rocks-bronx-home-cops-suspect-drug-lab-article-1.2808271
 
That is just a lot more evidence of the autrocities of the war on drugs.

If you can't see that from your own posts you are seriously blind -- like the hideous clown that trolls this thread.
 
"Libertarians want to legalize drugs"
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Liberty means the right and power to think, act, and express ones self in the manner of ones own choosing; provided that Liberty does not infringe or usurp the Liberty of another or others.

Mainstream Libertarians * do not advocate recreational drug abuse. Instead Libertarians oppose martial oppression.
The logical proof of this is the terminal cancer patient, hours from death, just seeking gentle, natural relief from the symptoms of the disease shortly to kill them. Why would you deny / withhold such human compassion?

* A fringe does. But they're political parasites. It's not that they champion the cause. They simply want the benefit of the work Libertarians do. For more information please visit lp.org
 
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