tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374691808292855765.post5675998258112190093..comments2023-07-19T12:57:11.504+01:00Comments on PonderBoxes: Whose Line Is It Anyway?PonderBoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08462571477438482147noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374691808292855765.post-78619252510928143532010-09-15T13:22:56.028+01:002010-09-15T13:22:56.028+01:00joshy, cocaine is also synthesised. a lot of indig...joshy, cocaine is also synthesised. a lot of indigenous south americans chew coca leaves (and have done for thousands of years), but that is not quite the same as the marching powder we in the west know and loveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374691808292855765.post-19287503509122349862010-09-08T19:15:05.407+01:002010-09-08T19:15:05.407+01:00Good post Euclides. It's a long debated topic ...Good post Euclides. It's a long debated topic and yet still we appear to be at the same standstill. The 'War On Drugs' instigated by Reagan in the US in the 80s has been adopted by every president since. It is primarily an American war directed against the South American drugs trade but it also consumes American citizens - often from the lowest rungs of the social ladder.<br /><br />It's a war that will achieve no victory but will continue to cost people their lives. When I think of the billions of dollars poured into policing and prosecuting the production, trafficking and dealing of drugs it makes absolutely no sense to me. Surely legalising and turning drugs into a profit making taxed industry (like cigarettes and alcohol) would make far more sense.<br /><br />Anybody that thinks drugs (even cocaine and heroin) are more harmful than alcohol is blinkered to the reality. Alcohol is incredbily dangerous and damaging to society if misused, yet governments are more than happy to reap the benefits of taxing whisky and vodka. So why not drugs?<br /><br />I too think that cocaine is a despicable drug in so many ways but the social damage it does is no worse than with booze. I would personally legalise all drugs with the exception of crack which is not a 'pure' drug but a modified, highly addictive, hideous, toxic nightmare. All other drugs should be turned into a globally interconnected trade bringing income to countries like Mexico and Afghanistan and servicing Western consumers.<br /><br />It will happen eventually so why delay the obvious.Joshua Surteeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836133230918430241noreply@blogger.com