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6.12.2005

Solving The "Drug Problem."

I've always said that drugs should be legal. Drug users commit crimes primarily because drugs are illegal and hard to get.

So here's what I propose: Treat drug use like driving. It is a privilege, not a right.

Issue "drug use" licenses to adults, the same way we issue driver's licenses. If you fuck up and commit an actual crime while under the influence of drugs, your license can be suspended or revoked.

Committing an actual violent crime could result in permanent revocation.

Committing further drug-related crimes while under suspension or revocation would be considered aggravating circumstances in the crimes themselves.

Along with all this, we offer free counsling and treatment to any drug users who want or need it, paid for by part of the taxes earned from legal drugs.

So, who'd want to risk getting their drug license yanked by being irresponsible?

Comments? Questions?

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Comment:

"Rat Park"

Rat Park is an explanation
of why drugs will never be legal in America.

If you have never read this, I suggest
that it is important that you do so, Tim.

Okay,
Father Luke

3:37 PM

 
Blogger SicTim said...

I gave my rationale to you in another forum, Father, but it boils down to this:

The addiction model being wrong, or even covered up, is irrelevent to the practicality of my proposal.

Nicotine, the most "addictive" drug on every scale used, is legal.

9:16 AM

 
Blogger s. p. stanley said...

With the bloated cost of health care in our country, I wonder if it's even possible to address the treatment issue to a reasonable degree.

10:42 AM

 
Blogger SicTim said...

S.P.,

Think about the billions we'll save in interdiction, law enforcement, the legal process and prisons.

Think about the hypothetical amounts we'd earn from taxation and new industries and legal jobs.

I believe the idea would pay for itself and then some.

2:21 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nicotine is legal, but after nearly
thirty years of smoking I've given it
up.

Was I addicted, or, Tim, was I at the
effect of the things which I alluded
to in Rat Park?

I have to believe that my life is
different now. Oh so different than
the life I lived doing drugs and
living lonely and homeless.

Rat Park.

It's a revealing insight into why.

I love you.
Father Luke

11:48 PM

 
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