Yes, just like the glorious People's Republic of China. What a paragon of justice and human rights they are.

SWAT teams were originally created to deal with hostage situations, so no I wouldn't get rid of them. And there shouldn't be any drug laws to enforce anyway. If police departments operated with the kinds of budgets they have now because of the drug war, but did so without any drug laws to enforce, they could get so much more done. Imagine if they devoted those resources to property crimes or rapes, which are both crimes with very low conviction rates.

Drug laws go beyond being ble to smoke weed (i know im just generalizing but everyone i know who wants to get rid o drug laws is because they want to toke up whenever they want.) There is meth, manufactured in apartments where the process hurts everyone around it, heroine which when laced with ketamine is more addictive and kills easily, tons of overdoses on the stuff where i live, crack, all kinds of shit that should never be legal. I can see the legalizing and regulation of marijuana or shrooms or something light but there are things that should nevber be allowed, as to capital punishment all 50 states should have it on the books for murder, the murder rate is lower in states with the death penalty.

It's a pretty good idea. Acts of terror, murder in which the person is absolutely guilty, multiple rape, and more than two accounts of drug trafficking should be executable offenses. And no waiting 25 years to carry it out, either. You get 10 years and after that you can appeal for a stay of execution for 5 more years ( just in case it is somehow discovered that the person is completely innocent)

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Its true that if you legalize drugs there will be less crime, but legalizing wreckless driving makes less crime too, since the people doing arent arrested. That doesnt mean people arent getting hurt. Seen peoples lives destroyed by drugs before, I say ban all the hard drugs.

If drugs were legal, much of the risk associated with them would be eliminated. It wouldn't be necessary to create hazardous clandestine laboratories to manufacture drugs like methamphetamine because it would be freely available from private companies which would be subject to the same laws and regulations that govern any other sort of manufacturing. Purity would also be an irrelevant concern. You don't worry about your aspirin or viagra being laced with PCP or formaldehyde, why would you worry the same about legally produced heroin?

People have this idea that legalizing drugs equates to legitimizing criminal organizations, as if legitimate companies wouldn't even be allowed to engage in the sale and manufacture of drugs and gangs would be allowed to run rampant through the streets. Before drugs were illegal they were made and sold by pharmaceutical companies, the same companies that still exist today such as Merck and Pfizer. And if drugs are ever legal again, those companies will jump right back on the bandwagon. Even all the tobacco companies registered trademarks for their own brands of marijuana cigarettes decades ago and are just sitting on them, waiting for the day to come.

As for people wrecking their own lives, that's an inevitable consequence of living in a free society where we are all responsible for our own lives. Not all of us will make it, that is a universal truth that will never change.

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This is the same argument used to rationalize such socialist nonsense as section 8 housing, universal healthcare, and federal student loans. The idea that everyone should have all the money they need to do whatever they want is what is destroying this country.


In case you thought it's not a real thing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_Group

Just google "private prison" and have fun spending an entire day being horrified. Even that fascist Joe Arpaio thinks they're a problem.

Even DEA agents admit that the drug war doesn't actually accomplish anything.

I've heard that argument before in other debates about gun control, gay marriage, and welfare reform; "We can't do X here even though it works in country Y because our cultures are so different." It's a weak bullshit argument designed to prey on people's sense of national identity without actually making a real point.

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