Legal cocaine, yes or no? The way he recommends The Economist. What would that entail?
“Joe Biden is too shy. It is time to legalize cocaine. The costs of the ban outweigh the benefits ”. This is the title and subtitle of an editorial that appeared in the latest issue of The Economist, world bible of liberalists, dedicates to the topic after Biden pardoned the approximately 6,000 Americans convicted of possessing a small amount of marijuana on 6 October.
“Since Richard Nixon launched the ‘war on drugs’ half a century ago, the flow of cocaine into the United States has increased.” This is one of the key passages of the article that puts the finger in the sore: the war on drugs launched by the United States has failed.
“Between 2000 and 2020, the United States invested $ 10 billion in Colombia to suppress production, paying the local military to spray coca plantations with herbicides from the air or to uproot the bushes by hand. In vain: when coca is uprooted from one slope, it moves to another ”.
In essence, having cocaine as an illegal commodity only benefits organized crime and makes drugs even less safe. Here is the magazine’s proposal: “The real answer is full legalization, which allows non-criminals to supply a strictly regulated and highly taxed product, just like whiskey and cigarette manufacturers do. (Advertising should be prohibited) “.
But does it make sense to equate cocaine with alcohol or cigarettes?
Does this writer know the potency of a drug that doesn’t even have an addiction drug? Also for heroin there is: methadone.
It hurts alcohol or cigarettes more has been a debated topic for decades. But equating you with cocaine denotes a lack of knowledge to leave you stunned.
Would they like to put it on a sales counter as a commercial product?
Imagine what it means to make cocaine available as alcohol and cigarettes!
In 2015, the report “Global statistics on alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use” explains that diseases, disabilities and premature deaths related to the consumption of alcohol and cigarettes would have cost the world population a total of over 250 million years of life. Many more than the “few” tens of millions of years lost due to drugs and illicit substances, of course. But wouldn’t making cocaine an over-the-counter product go the same way with a substance that has a potential 100 times higher?
There are those who died at the first hiring, they are known news events. “The use of cocaine increases the risk of death four times found in people who do not take the drug “, explains a Spanish research of 2014. The death, which also occurred in people at the first intake, in reality may not be a sudden event, but only the ‘spy’ that signals the presence of a previously undiagnosed vascular dysfunction, the researchers explain. In fact, cocaine has devastating effects on the heart, circulatory system and brain that can also occur in the short term.
“Legalization would disdain gangs. Obviously, some would find other income, ”he writes The Economist, “But the loss of cocaine profits would help curb their power to recruit, buy high-end guns and corrupt officials. This would reduce drug-related violence everywhere, but especially in the most affected region, Latin America ”.
This is also something to try. Organized crime existed before the advent of cocaine and will exist even if cocaine goes into disuse. The field of illegal and organized crime is large and complex and always provides for new markets and then there are always flourishing ones, from prostitution to money laundering, from blows for the control of the territory to the illegal disposal of waste, just to mention the more predictable not to mention the activities considered legal.
The truth is that for cocaine, as for the addiction problem, there is no preventive and adequate information activity carried out by the States. Cocaine remained a “territory” left entirely illegal. And we have never gone beyond the repression / legalization opposition. People take drugs today with cocaine and other drugs and will continue to do so tomorrowwhether legal or not, but transforming such a powerful drug into an over-the-counter product on par with alcohol and cigarettes would set in motion a process of “normalization” with unpredictable results.
After the legalization (at least in some “civilized” countries) of euthanasia for children, Artificial Intelligence that regulates what is lawful to say and buy and what is not, and medicine as a therapeutic system that gives the right to work Will cocaine be equated with aspirin because liberalists tell us so?
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