Interessante These: Legalisiert *alle* Drogen!

Vor 15 Jahren erlebte ich in den Diskussionsforen des amerikanischen CompuServe interessante Debatten über die Legalisierung von Drogen. Einer der bemerkenswertesten Beiträge zum Thema stammte von einem Mediziner, der eloquent die Legalisierung sämtlicher Drogen forderte. Er gestattete mir, seinen Beitrag weiterzuleiten. Was ich hiermit tue:

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From: MedSig Forum

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09-Jan-93 04:36:18
Sb: ALL DRUGS LEGAL
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Ignoring, at least temporarily moral questions, recreational drug useshould be legalized:

1. The costs of prohibition, interdiction of drugs, etc., are substantial,some might argue enormous. Legalization results in net positive cash flowin the public coffers from taxation, rather than negative cash flow fromattempts to curtail illegal use.

2. Illegality of recreational drug use directly contributes to thefinancial well being of organized crime, since the profits obtained arehigher in the setting of illegal drug use than they would be if aregulated market for the substances was determined.

3. Drug users do not use drugs to become addicts, regardless ofmotivations, it is in the interest of the “pusher” to develop the mostaddictive and seductive drugs possible, since that ensures the “captive”market needed to thrive and prosper. In a legal climate, the behavioralincentives change for the user and since the activity is not illegal thanmaintaining a job is more possible in the context of drug use, and illegalbehavior is not necessary to get the revenues needed to sustain the”fixes”.

4. Ironically, legalization of drugs will result in the possibility formore effective social deterrents and controls to be brought to bear.Identification of the user with discrete anti-social or a-socialsubcultures and behaviors makes the drug user openly hostile ofconventional morality and behavior. Since this attitude is particularlyattractive to the adolescent attempting to differentiate and to explore,the well known susceptibility of the adolescent for drug experimentationis only accentuated by the allure of “illegality”.

5. The high profits and high risks of drug distribution encourages aclimate of lawlessness and violence. The extraordinary penalties leavedfor the successful prosecution of drug cases only accentuates theviolence, esp to law enforcement officers, as the felon stands little toloss by adding the penalty of homicide. e.g., by analogy, makingkidnapping itself a capital offense, has resulted in a lower proportionof victims being released, since release entails a higher change ofcapture and conviction, since the act of kidnapping is punishable bydeath, than little is lost by executing the hostage and additionalsecurity is gained in that act.

6. The lucrative nature of the enterprise and the large amounts of largelyuntraceable money results in an atmosphere which encourages officialcomplicity with drug dealers, graft, payoffs and further contributes tothe erosion of the moral behavior of the ruling class and the perversionof law enforcement by “big money”.

7. By implication from #6, large amounts of liquid capital circulates inan unofficial market immune from regulation and taxation, furtheraggravating the costs to society of this scourge.

8. Black market sources are notoriously unreliable, therefore, the purityand quality of ones “poison” is largely unknown contributing to theinherent physical risks involved in ingesting black market drugs.

9. Even given the safety and substance purity issues the acute use healthtoll is minuscule compared to that of tobacco and ETOH. Compared to theepidemic of traumatic violence and death due to the pursuit of drugs andtheir distributions with its attendant risks, death from OD or poorquality of drugs is trivial (the last estimate I recall ran to 300/deathsper yr) (in all honesty I will not be able to cite specific sources forthat statistic).

10. Serious abridgements of my individual rights have already occurredunder the rubic of making me and mine safer. As a result, the currentsearch and seizure laws are clearly unconstitutional and are toleratedbecause of public indifference to the issues of freedom, public ignoranceof the ultimate effects of the gradual sacrifice of individual freedom,and the self righteous belief that only other people could becomecriminals.

11. Financially rewarding police officers for arresting certain kinds ofcriminals results in selective enforcement, since there is profit inapprehending drug dealers, while there are only costs involved inapprehending non-drug offenders.

12. In the setting of a nonpaternal world view, in which maximization of responsible individual freedom is the highest good, a situation in whichany outside authority can proscribe the actions of an individual agent,even if the motivation is to “protect” that agent “from himself” isindefensible. It is a god-given right to not only be wrong, but to alsoinjury oneself, overtly/intentionally or covertly/unintentionally.

13. An “education” program based on propaganda rather than fact, fostersan attitude in the most vulnerable components of our society, of disregardfor authority, since in this setting authority is a whore, who acts toplease a political master, rather than the pursuit of truth.

14. Legalization of recreational drugs will encourage legitimatesuppliers who with the intrinsic cleverness of the free-market system,will develop new and improved agents in which the desired effects will bepredictable, have minimal negative health effects, be of standardizedpurity. The unscrupulous or inept will be dealt with by the current tortsystem of product liability.

15. The finest legal talents in our nation will become free to deal withconstructive social engineering, rather than pervert their skills in thedefense of the Drug Lords and Drug Barons and Drug Kingpins.

OK guys, Balls in your court!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*****

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Schlagworte: drogen, harte drogen, heroin, kokain, legalisierung, war on drugs