Updated: 10/28/04
DRUGS AND CRIME
INTRODUCTION
This is an honest look at the major problem of hard drugs and the crime
related to the use of these drugs in the United States. The author studies and exposes
the mindset, which brings the trauma of the drug problem into every home in
this country. Then he offers us a solution, which is the first clear, rational,
and down-to-earth explanation presented to us in recent years.
The author explains why these drugs are such a strong stimulus to
people and offers us a plan to combat the spread of drug related problems and
how to soon reduce the crime associated with these hard drugs.
Those who have children or spouses trapped in the vicious cycle of
drugs will wish to read this information as will those who wish to do something
about the problem in their own communities and states.
The author does not claim it will be easy. But, he does claim it will
be successful and will bring social and financial relief to this country. It
will also bring tax relief to all. It will be opposed by those who are getting
rich, directly and indirectly, off of the drug trade (and many of them are
politicians, bankers and your local business men). It will also be opposed by
those who think "compromise" is a dirty word.
Many people will have to change their minds about how to deal with
these hard drug problems if this solution is to have any impact on crime and on
the average citizen of this country. The facts presented here will open the
eyes of many who have only thought about the problem in light of the propaganda
forced on them by those people who have a vested interest in the drug problem.
And NO ONE has a greater vested interest in hard drugs than those who make
their living fighting the DRUG WAR (including our government and our
religions).
As the author points out, the alternative to this solution is continued
and accelerating disaster and chaos. By pursuing more of the same policy of
throwing billions of dollars at the drug problem, we end up playing into the
hands of both the criminals and the politicians. We must take our own action.
SO LET US EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP OF DRUGS
AND CRIME
Possibly few things concern Americans more today than crime. There are
crimes against one's person and crimes against one's property. There are crimes
against one's children and crimes against one's group or society. Then there
are crimes against our future. Maybe the worse crimes of all are those which
are legal but highly immoral and which destroy our future and that of our
children and grand children.
Crimes are committed by the lowest elements of our society and by the
highest strata of our society. The grungy guy who takes your car, your money or
your property is the social scapegoat for our concept of crime. But, there are
other criminals who hurt us worse than the loss of a car or some money. There
are criminals in this country who dress in suits, go to church on Sunday, run
for elective office (and win), speak high sounding phrases in front of gullible
listeners and they call themselves "good" and "Godly".
Please deliver us from these good, godly predators! We cannot stand much more
of it. These "good" people are stealing our freedoms, our futures and
our pursuit of happiness. And worst of all, they are stealing our HOPE for our
future and that of our kids.
To study crime, one must separate the two major aspects of criminal
activity and study them separately. The crimes at the low end of the social
ladder we will call common crime. The crime at the upper end of society we will
call white-collar crime. We are forced to call some of these people, legal criminals,
because they make and lobby for "laws" which they and their backers
want passed. These "laws," which bring personal benefits to their
particular group, friends or business, also brings hardship and frustration to
the rest of us. You and I must follow and obey these "laws" in order
that the pockets of their backers may be lined with money (mine and yours).
If you talk to any law enforcement agent, you will ultimately ask the
question, "What causes most of the common crime in Atlanta (or New York,
Chicago, Los Angles or your city)." The answer will be DRUGS. If you ask
what percent is caused by drugs you will receive answers ranging from
seventy-five percent up to eighty-five or so percent.
What makes these drugs such a criminal stimulus?
Let's do some supposing. Suppose a whole pound of cocaine cost the same
price as a pound of sugar does today. Let us further suppose, a pound of sugar
cost what a pound of cocaine cost today. What would the criminal element be
selling on the street corner? Sugar or cocaine? How long would it be before
sugar factories were being built (and raided and blown up)? How long before
kids were being given little packets of sugar, free or very cheap? How long
before there would be sugar parties among the rich?
How long would it be before sugar was classified as illegal by most
states? How long would it be before big money was being invested in sugar
plantations in South America by banks, various investment funds and individuals
with lots of money? How long would it be before sugar wars broke out in our
cities and overseas? How long would it be before law enforcement agents would
say, "Sugar causes seventy-five percent of the crime in our cities?
The answer to these questions is, NOT LONG!
The Clear Thinker says, "If you take the money out of
drugs, you take seventy-five percent of the crime out of our country side and
out of our cities." Think about it!
Most people will say, "All right! Let's do it! How do we
start?"
Before answering the question "How can we do it?" we need to
dig a little deeper into the problem and the mind set which causes the problem.
What, for instance, makes one drug illegal and one legal? That is done
by the magic wave of a ballpoint pen. A few signatures on a piece of paper and
lo and behold, a drug is illegal. By the stroke of a pen, a legal business
becomes a criminal business. Something, which cost a dollar before the stroke
of that pen now becomes worth two hundred dollars after the stroke of that pen.
There are tens of thousands of people who just love the stroke of that
ballpoint pen. It means billions in their collective pockets. Those who sell it
and those who fight it are delighted!
Now, we must ask ourselves, who lobbied to make the commodity illegal?
Who is going to benefit? Look at the drug alcohol for a moment. Alcohol was
legal in this country, then, it was illegal. Then, it was legal again. Why the
confusion? Did alcohol change its spots?
First, there are those in our society who BELIEVE they have a
revelation from the Almighty God that instructs them that they are to be the
moral and ethical conscious of this nation and indeed of the world. They
believe they have a Divine insight, a Divine moral code and a Divine
responsibility, which makes them the judge, jury and executioner of the
actions, activities and thoughts of all mankind.
Second, because these people are unable to see the wrong and harm,
which THEY do to society, they hunt for an enemy outside of themselves. Thus,
in the past, they selected "John Barley Corn" (alcohol) as their
enemy.
Third, they divided up the world into two parts, God's side and the
Devil's side, the good side and the bad side, the right side and the wrong
side.
Fourth, anyone who disagrees with them is on the Devil's side, the bad
side and the wrong side.
Thus, through out history, these same people who gave us a flat earth,
the dark ages and the Inquisition have sought to prevail by intimidation, persecution,
passing and enforcing immoral and unjust laws, belittling and berating their
selected enemies and putting pressure on the governments of the world to force
their private religious will and inhumane ethics on the rest of us.
So, in the early nineteen hundreds, they selected alcohol as the enemy.
Who were their allies in their efforts to make alcohol illegal? Every criminal
organization in the United States made donations, lobbied and advertised for
their cause. These criminals lobbied and worked with the believers. Anyone who
had money invested in whisky distilleries in Canada, Cuba or Europe, joined in.
Bootleggers, or those who wanted to be, joined in.
Guess who also poured millions and millions of dollars into the effort,
THE DRUG COMPANIES! They still do. You see the drug companies cannot patent
alcohol (or marijuana). Instead they produce very, very expensive drugs to do a
little bit of what alcohol (or marijuana) will do for a few dollars even at the
present inflated prices. So the big drug companies joined the criminals (if
there is any difference) and the believers to lobby and fight for making
alcohol and later, marijuana illegal. Soon, prohibition passed and the USA was
"SAVED" from alcohol. Believers rejoiced. Drug companies rejoiced.
Bankers rejoiced. Politicians rejoiced. Foreign brewers rejoiced. Investors
rejoiced. Law enforcement rejoiced.
WHAT HAPPENED?
First, millions and millions of taxpayer dollars had to be collected
and spent by the Federal government, the state and local governments to enforce
this new "law." This new "law" gave thousands of people
employment. But do not forget, under this law, hundreds of people died, went
blind or suffered from alcohol poisoning by drinking "rot gut whiskey."
Thousand of people who just wanted a drink (which they used to get legally)
were jailed. Hundreds were gunned down in the streets and businesses and many
of them were innocent bystanders. Citizens became afraid to walk the streets of
their towns at night. Where only a few bars existed, new secret bars and clubs
opened by the thousands all over this country. Crime went crazy! People bought
locks for their doors and brs for their windows. Criminals and their friends
became fantastically RICH! Banks and investment houses did a booming business.
Does any of this sound familiar to you?
The Capones, Dillingers, Cohens, Morans, law enforcement officers,
little and big crooks, all got very wealthy selling whisky at bloated prices.
The territorial wars broke out. Criminals fought other criminals in the streets
of the USA. Law enforcement broke down as the criminals could pay them in a
month what they would normally make in a year. Law enforcement lost its pride
in itself. Law enforcement lost its effectiveness and worst of all, the
enforcement agents of this "law" lost the respect of the citizens of
this country. Soon state and federal senators and representatives were on the
take, along with policemen, judges, lawyers and politicians. Before long, the
criminals had as much power, or more, than the politician or police. More millions
of dollars had to be spent by state and federal governments. The cost to the
taxpayer was enormous.
Making alcohol illegal caused more deaths PER YEAR than legal alcohol
had ever caused in all the previous fifty-five years. Home and society
were disrupted. Crime grew powerful, wealthy and greedy. The believers and the
politicians (with their prohibition laws) had unleashed a monster upon us. Such
a situation is called, "throwing the baby out with the bath water."
Finally, Clear Thinking prevailed. Prohibition was repealed and the USA
tried to return to the "good old days." But, we could not
return. The damage was done. The tree was bent crooked, and crooked it stayed.
Crime had gotten used to paying off its supporters, and the supporters had
gotten used to BEING paid. Some new form of prohibition was immediately needed
by both the criminals and the crime fighters (so they didn't lose their
incomes).
Using their new power and wealth, crime entered big legitimate business
and politics. The sons and daughters of the criminals became business and
political powers in this nation. They were bank rolled by their families and
the criminal element. They ran for senate seats and won. They ran for state and
federal representatives and won. They had no apologies for telling lies,
spreading false rumors and immorally tricking their less well financed
opponents. They even ran their man for president. Crime money talks.
Immediately upon repeal of prohibition on alcohol, the crime bosses and
politicians began to describe the evils of recreational drugs. It made no
difference whether these drugs were harmful, helpful or neutral. The concept
was taken up by the believers. Soon the criminal element was gleefully
convincing politicians and preachers to get certain drugs made or kept illegal.
They lobbied, convinced believers to write editorials, preach sermons and work
to make and keep certain drugs illegal.
It is a proven fact that common crime in the United States was petty
and non-threatening before the prohibition on alcohol. People didn't even lock
their doors. After the prohibition was lifted, crime was powerful and
political, reaching its tendrils and tentacles into politics, business,
banking, stocks, manufacturing, bonds, law enforcement, commerce,
transportation, unions, publishing, international trade, insurance,
commodities, farming, mining, pornography, prostitution, gambling, garbage
collection, restaurants, radio, TV, entertainment and every other legitimate
and illegitimate business. Crime expansion grew like kudzu in South Georgia.
And, people began to install locks and started locking their doors and watching
their kids.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY NOW?
"What is wrong now", happened between 1919 and 1934.
PROHIBITION! Making alcohol illegal! The tree was bent and today we find
ourselves and our nation crooked indeed. But I have some hope for us! Stay with
me!
It was pointed out by the finally semi legitimate crime bosses that the
Federal government now had a very strong and usable Federal force built up to
enforce the prohibition of alcohol. They argued, if certain drugs were made or
kept illegal, the "Feds" had an organization all ready in the field
to enforce a "NEW LAW." If some drugs were not made or kept illegal,
then the FED force would have to be disbanded and the government would lose
millions of taxpayer dollars and jobs. They pointed out that the politicians
could use this new cause for votes and everyone would PROFIT from making
certain drugs illegal. Besides, drugs made people crazy and the government
needed to protect the citizens from going crazy. Didn't it?
They didn't mention that THEY would make billions. Nor, did they
mention that along with this NEW prohibition on drugs would come new crimes
unknown before. They didn't mention the hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars it
would cost the federal government (us). They didn't mention the thousands and
thousands of innocent people who would lose their jobs, their families, their
money and their lives. They didn't mention the FEARS that would ride our
streets, our homes, our schools and our businesses. That would be BAD
ADVERTISING. Crime and politics always try to hide the true facts.
They secretly got the preachers, believers and politicians to start
partitions, preach sermons, write editorials and in general fan crime's tiny
prohibition spark until it finally became an all-consuming flame.
AND THEY DID IT!
The politicians succumbed to the endorsements, inducements and
propaganda. Certain drugs were not only made or kept illegal, but a NEW
enforcement branch was added to the federal agencies already in existence. And
the taxpayer had to pay and pay and pay some more for this new extravagant
expense.
The gist of the matter is this. Prohibition produces untold wealth for
the criminal element, for those who work with the criminal element and for
those who live off of the criminal element. And it does the same for those who
FIGHT the criminal element. For the average citizen, prohibition produces fear,
loss of innocent life, loss of their children, loss of money, loss of their
self-respect and loss of respect for our government and law enforcement. In
addition to that, prohibition produces honest patriotic rebels. These rebels
are jailed, called ungodly, un-American, traitors and have the IRS sicked on
them.
In the last few years, law enforcement agencies have stumbled upon
millions and millions of dollars packed in cardboard boxes in warehouses and
other places. Some of this money has even gotten moldy and rats have gnawed into
it. Some has gotten wet, stuck together or rotted. The problem with dealing in
drugs is, it produces so much cash money that the money itself becomes a
problem.
People who laundry crime money are given as much as HALF of the money
in order to make the other half usable as legitimate business profits. Banks
are guilty. Insurance companies are guilty. Import and export businesses are
guilty. The tentacles of crime money reach everywhere.
Where does this money come from? It comes from kids who steal in order
to buy one dollar’s worth of drugs for which they must pay two hundred dollars.
It comes from the grocery money, the rent money, the shoe money, the car money,
the education money and the insurance money. It comes from the tills of
businesses whose employees steal, embezzle and reroute the money to their own
pockets, then it goes into the drug dealer’s pocket. It comes from dishonest
business practices that take money for service or products that are useless or
never delivered. It comes from tax money and church money. It comes from
electronic items stolen from your home and mine. It comes from the poor.
This immoral drug prohibition has corrupted millions of people,
thousands of businessmen, and hundreds of politicians, judges, lawyers, law
enforcement personnel and we could go on for pages.
Will the criminal element and the misguided religious believers unite
in our society to make and keep certain drugs illegal? YOU BET! In a New York
minute.
One of the biggest problems stemming from the prohibitions of the past
and present is that the morals of the crime bosses, before long, become
the morals of business and government. These morals soon even become the morals
of the citizens of this country who, seeing other people get away with it,
decide they will play the game. So they sue so THEY can get something for
nothing. Thus, we have the proliferation of lawyers, legal suits in court,
slander suits, injury suits, pain and suffering suits and so forth. ALL of
these things basically stem from the mindset of the criminal. They see an
opportunity to get SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. And WE put up with it!
Did you ever really study the fine print in warranties, contracts and
such? It is almost as though anything you do saves the issuer of the fine print
from any obligation what so ever to YOU, but nothing that you do voids the
contract or your obligation to them. This is the mindset of business today.
Before PROHIBITION there was some trust between the buyer and seller. Big
transactions were often concluded with a handshake. Since prohibition there is
none of that. THAT is the criminal mind at work.
The illegality of certain drugs cost the taxpayers billions and
billions of dollars each year. And the cost is going up. Too many greedy hands
are out. The amount of money paid out by the federal government each year on
drug enforcement is absolutely and unbelievably STAGGERING. There are court
cost, jail cost, undercover operations, surveillance, stings, troops, agents
and equipment sent to foreign lands, boats and airplanes, hospital treatment,
associated crime including petty crime, and possibly WAR in the drug supplying
countries, and hundreds of other related costs.
The believers, the criminals and the government have forced you and me
to believe that the only way to do away with the drug crimes is to buy more
policemen, more airplanes, more boats, more detection equipment, and in general
throw more money at the problem. If you don't agree with the government, you
are a closet druggy, un-American, ungodly and worthy of being spied on to see
why you don't agree with the "good" efforts of the government. They
spy on you. They also want to know if you are paying your fair share of taxes
(which they keep raising). The BELIEVERS and the CRIMINALS have locked up our
future and are destroying our present.
These crime costs do not include the individual losses to crime,
increased insurance cost, increased taxes, loss of life, bank failures,
embezzlements, stock market frauds and a multitude of other hidden costs.
One of the worst costs to the American people is the cost of FEAR! Even
the police fear walking the streets of this nation after dark. If the police
fear the crime element after dark, what is to be said for the average citizen?
Yes! America fears not only the night, we also fear the daytime. Why should we
put up with this terror? Why do people fear the criminal elements even in the
supposed safety of their own homes? Because petty crime and white collar crime
in this country is fueled by the HIGH COST OF DRUGS! This crime, and the fear
of it, reaches every home in the USA one way or another. And now they want to
prohibit our only home protection by taking our dogs and our guns away from us.
Can you say, "TYRANNY"?
Not only are the citizens of this country afraid of the criminal
element, we are now afraid of OUR OWN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. Innocent people
have their doors kicked out and law enforcement agents swarm into their homes
with swat teams IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT. The drug laws are now used to intimidate
decent citizens and many non-drug users have had law enforcement actually PLANT
drugs in their homes so they could be arrested. You see they were vocal against
some local politician, agency or authority or someone wanted their property.
Any drug addict will tell you, it doesn't matter what he has to do to
get the money for the drugs. He will get it legally, illegally or any other
way, just so long as he gets the money to get the drugs. Some have even sold
their own children (or stolen and sold other peoples children) to get the money
to get the drugs.
Another item to remember is this. Most drug addicts hate their
dependency on drugs. But, they cannot afford the treatment necessary and they
fear the social stigma (for themselves, their jobs and their families). They
also fear criminal prosecution if they seek the treatment.
Absolutely nothing good can be truthfully said about making any drug
illegal without counting hundreds of reasons why ALL drugs should be legal.
Now, CONTROL of a drug is absolutely necessary when making a drug
legal. Many people either misunderstand or misrepresent the concept of making a
drug legal. Some think that means one can go into a grocery store and buy a
hard drug as one would buy a bottle of beer, a carton of cigarettes or a bottle
of aspirin. This will never happen and never should happen.
In my opinion (which I have researched) here is what needs to be done.
First, drugs used for so called recreational purposes must be divided into
groups according to their addictedness, their danger to health, their danger to
society and their value for purposes other than recreation. I am not a chemist,
doctor or scientist, so my knowledge is general and relates only to what can be
found out from general research and medical publications on the various drugs,
law enforcement, cost and related subjects. I am not a user of these drugs.
But, I have long since learned how to determine the difference between reading
facts and reading propaganda put out by those who are in favor of something, or
against something.
If I were dividing the drugs, I would place the hallucinogenic and acid
drugs together in one category. Then the poppy and coca drugs should be placed
together and the marijuana types in yet a separate category.
Now, let us use some logic and Clear Thinking on this drug problem.
Almost all the acid drugs can be manufactured in the average home from easy to
acquire chemicals if one is a chemist or knows how. (You can go to any good
library and find the formulas for these). All the poppy and coca drugs can be
manufactured in a small space, but the raw material is basically not grown in
the United States. It must be imported. The marijuana plant can be grown almost
any place in the USA.
The acid drugs are extremely dangerous to health and can very easily
cause death, insanity and replace reality with a believable non-reality. They
are not necessarily addictive, but their effect is accumulative. That is, the
body does not rid itself quickly of these drugs but stores them in the tissues
of the body. So, one who uses these acids can easily take a lethal or insane
producing dosage even though the last dose was no more than the next to last
dose.
In addition to this, at any time, the tissues of the body can release
enough of the drug back into circulation to produce an instant high. This is
called a flash back. These flash backs can cause accidents, anti social
behavior, "pink elephants", hostility, social embarrassments and
worst of all, DEATH, both to the users themselves and to others.
The poppy and coca drugs must be rated according to their refinement.
Think of the refinement of alcohol. The more sugar added to the vat, the more
care, selection and aging, the higher the alcohol content. Then the product can
be further refined by distilling. Thus, a twelve proof wine can be raised by
repeated distilling up to nearly two hundred proof (or, pure alcohol).
Such is the case with the poppy and coca drugs. Lightly refined poppy
and coca drugs should be classified along with the marijuana types. Why do
people not use these lightly refined drugs? Because, no one will make them.
Since the danger of making and selling lightly refined drugs is the same as
that for highly refined drugs, why waste the effort when the highly refined
drugs are addictive (producing constant customers) and the lightly refined ones
are not. All highly refined poppy and coca drugs are addictive. These
addictive drugs pose more of a criminal problem because the cost is so high and
more of a health problem because of the addiction. These drugs, if taken in
full strength, or with other drugs such as alcohol or acid can quickly cause
death.
WHY DO PEOPLE USE THESE DRUGS?
First, there is the high. People who do not use drugs do not know what
high means. It means first, a powerful sexual feeling. It is also called
euphoria. In fact, some people can only have intercourse and an orgasm or enjoy
sex if they have first taken a coca, poppy or similar drug. Others, who take
these drugs on a regular basis, find the sexual excitement and orgasm (with no
other person or with no personal physical self stimulation) is better than sex
with a partner without the drug.
Next, there is the mental and physical stimulation people get from
these drugs. Some people find they can think faster, more clearly and finish a
task faster under the influence of the coca drugs and sometimes the poppy
drugs, if taken in small quantities.
One of the problems is that with extended use, one must use more of the
drug just to think and feel normal. Another problem is that with both the poppy
and coca drugs, reason and rationality becomes impaired. What that means is
this. They can work a math problem faster but their moral judgment is impaired
and they cannot make sound moral judgments. Right and wrong all becomes
"gray." A third problem is the unbelievable high cost of these drugs.
Fourth, as the drug wears off their mental and physical dexterity deteriorates
rapidly. Since their judgment is also impaired they will drive too fast, get
irritated easily, do too many things by impulse, become argumentative or
hostile, become paranoid and have other dangerous and harmful actions and
reactions.
I do not mean to imply that these drugs are harmless. They are NOT.
Neither, do I mean to say that these drugs should be handed out to anyone who
asks for them. What I am saying is, we need to keep our eyes on the goal of
eliminating seventy-five percent of the crime in our country. We need to foster
better health, eliminate our fears and produce more freedom for everyone, not
to mention save countless individuals from death and drugs. And, in the bargain
we can save the taxpayers billions and billions of dollars each and every year
(that is you and me, my friends).
When a forest fire of destructive size breaks out, what is the best
line of defense used by fire fighters? They light another controlled fire
called a backfire. They do this to destroy the fuel that the fire needs
to continue on its destructive path. Generally speaking, back fires work and
give the fire fighters a chance to bring the destructive fire under control.
Our drug problem and related crime is an out of control forest fire,
which is threatening the very fabric, and existence of the American
civilization. If it is not corrected and brought under control soon we may
cease to exist as a Republic and find ourselves under the feet of a dictator
who will promise to rid our streets of crime. The believers will support him.
And he will still fail!
IS THE LOSS OF OUR FREEDOMS WHAT WE WANT?
My vote and voice says, NO!
Instead of losing our freedoms, let us use the little freedom and
common sense we now have. Couple our desire for freedom from this crime of
drugs with some common sense and we can build our backfire and bring the spread
of the criminal element in this country under control.
I once heard a comedian (I believe it was Brother Dave) who said he had
a plan to eliminate all crime in the USA. When asked what the plan was, he
said, "Make it legal and tax it." That was years ago. After a few chuckles,
the more I thought about it the more it began to ring true.
I haven't said much about marijuana yet. The reason I have saved it for
last is because marijuana is our backfire. Marijuana can save us from the crime
and cost which has become associated with drugs in this country. Just look at
what marijuana can do for us in our fight against the hard drugs, crime and the
unbelievable cost of these drugs and crime. And don't forget our Morals.
01. Marijuana will basically do for the user (in a milder form) what
the poppy and coca drugs will do.
02. Marijuana is not biologically addictive.
03. Its effect dissipates from the body as fast or faster than alcohol.
04. There is no hangover tomorrow from its use.
05. It is cheap, will grow anywhere and is no more expensive to grow
than flowers or tomatoes.
06. It places nitrogen into the soil, thus to grow marijuana, is to
enrich the soil.
07. The seeds have long been a mainstay for bird and fowl food.
08. Marijuana is not accumulative in the body. An occasional user will
lose all traces in a week (except in his hair). A regular user will be totally
free of any effects in a couple of days and lose all chemical traces from his
body in forty days or less.
09. On a commercial basis, marijuana is known as hemp and is perfect
for making strong rope, bags, tents, tough cloth, sails, baskets and containers
of many types. It makes the best tough, long lasting work pants in the world.
10. A pinch of marijuana ingested, is one of the best painkillers for
those who need to sublimate the pain so that they may be able to accomplish
some task for themselves or their company without the pain.
11. For people with glaucoma of their eyes, it tends to clear the
vision and slows the condition.
12. Marijuana will soften one's aggressiveness and hostility and make a
user more social and agreeable.
13. For those being treated for cancer with chemotherapy, marijuana
enables the patient to reduce the pain of the cancer and to keep food on their
stomach without being so nauseous.
14. Marijuana is ideal for treating anorexia because it calms the
nervous system and produces an appetite and eliminates nausea.
15. A pinch of marijuana before bedtime serves as the best harmless
sleeping pill one can have.
16. Marijuana enables people who are very shy to navigate in society
without the associated fear of people.
17. It drastically reduces arthritic pain.
18. Marijuana may be either smoked or ingested.
19. It is a mild tranquilizer. A tiny pinch of Marijuana ingested will
relax a nervous person without any known impairment of mental or physical
functions.
20. Ingested, marijuana acts as a bowel stimulant and will keep a
person regular.
21. It produces more oxygen while growing than any other known plant.
22. Marijuana is to the land what plankton is to the sea. It is the
best most versatile plant on earth. And what have we done to this wonderful
plant God has so graciously given to us. You guessed it. WE OUTLAWED MARIJUANA!
23. Marijuana makes the best cheapest paper known. Paper made with
marijuana lasts longer, is tougher, stays whiter longer and it repels insects.
Did you know only marijuana (hemp) is used to make cigarette papers? All coffee
filters and filters for machinery are made from the marijuana plant. And guess
what? If you have a Bible with thin, tough, long lasting, expensive paper, it
is made from the marijuana plant.
24. Marijuana is the fastest growing, annually renewable plant, and
that includes kudzu.
25. An acre of marijuana will produce many times the weight of paper
that an acre of pine will produce and do it every year. And each year the yield
of marijuana goes up because it enriches the soil while pine depletes the soil.
Want to save some trees?
26. Marijuana seeds have one of the highest protein counts of all the
seeds. As an animal or human supplement food, it cannot be beat. It is rich in
minerals and vitamins.
27. It is disease and insect resistant.
28. Marijuana has a long history that even goes beyond beer and wine.
29. Every major civilization of the past has used marijuana for
commercial products, medicine and recreation.
30. There is no record or indication (until now) that wars were ever
fought over marijuana, as has been the case of beer, wine, whisky, poppy and
coca drugs as well as tobacco and lumber.
31. Marijuana produces the highest quality oils used in cosmetics,
paints, medicines and lubricants for tiny instruments and for big ones.
32. It makes refreshing houseplants that removes odors and adds beauty
and oxygen to the air.
33. Ascetically, it is a beautiful, fiery green plant that adds beauty
to one's yard or garden.
34. It protects other plants by repelling insects from neighboring
plants.
35. Use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs DECLINE when marijuana is
available and used.
36. Marijuana (when available) absolutely DOES NOT lead to the use of
other hard drugs. In fact it does just the opposite. Marijuana reduces
the consumption of the hard drugs, alcohol and tobacco. People who use
marijuana generally do not want to use the hard drugs. Ask your doctor and
maybe he will tell you the truth. Diet pills, Darvon and other prescribed drugs
DO lead to the other hard drugs. Marijuana does not!
There is no record of anyone dying from using
only marijuana. Alcohol and tobacco are the killers.
These thirty-six statements are just a few of the reasons why we should
consider marijuana in a truthful and honest light. Marijuana is a plant which
should be grown everywhere for the sake of the air we breath, the trees we
could save, the animals we could feed cheaply, the food we eat, the rope and
commodities we can make, the paper we use, the clothes we wear, the chemicals
we use, the soil we wish to enrich, the crime we hope to escape, the accidents
we hope to avoid, the tensions we wish to relieve and the recreation for which
we hope. Marijuana is the best protection from soil erosion and mudslides known
since its roots run deep and strong. And let's not forget the billions and
billions of tax dollars we can save and use for more useful purposes.
Disregarding the recreational use of marijuana, it is one of the most
versatile and valuable plants on this planet. If I were religious, I would say
it is one of the greatest natural gifts that God ever gave to mankind.
Well, everything has a down side. What is the down side of using
marijuana for recreational purposes? Like alcohol, one should not drive,
operate machinery or make important decisions while under the immediate
influence of marijuana (about two or so hours). There is the loss of short-term
memory for the occasional users while under the influence (again, about two
hours). Long-term users will have sluggishness of memory and sometimes (in
some) it will produce forgetfulness. Poor concentration is expected during use
if one takes it by smoking. Some say that smoking marijuana (from a health
stand point) is about equal to five cigarettes. Others say it is no worse than
the same amount of tobacco. But all will pay a whopping high price for a few
leaves or buds of this plant.
Contrary to some government and religious spokesmen, marijuana does not
"fry the brain." In fact, it does much less harm than alcohol
does to the system. Some research has hinted that marijuana offers relief from
prostrate symptoms and may be valuable in that area. It also activates the
kidneys and therefore, cleanses the blood faster. Marijuana has been the best
treatment for thousands of years for epilepsy problems and even today is better
than any other drug treatment. There is no better pain relief for multiple
sclerosis and its terrible muscle cramps than marijuana. But the criminals,
believers and politicians outlawed marijuana.
Now we will come to the point. Here is my plan to rid our cities and
country side of seventy-five percent of our crime, return our streets to the
citizens of our country, eliminate the fear which permeates the public and save
us billions on billions of dollars and thousands and thousands of lives.
01. Do with marijuana what we have done with beer, wine and tobacco. Let
anyone who so wishes, grow his own. Certainly, there needs to be rules. No more
than two or three mature plants per adult in the household at any one time. No
selling to others, etc.
02. Let the tobacco companies grow, process and sell it as is done with
tobacco and alcohol.
03. Use the same rules on federal, state and local taxes as are done
with tobacco.
04. Use the same safety laws and rules on marijuana as is used with
alcohol.
05. Have education on marijuana as is now done with alcohol.
06. This will reduce the price of marijuana from two hundred plus
dollars to about the same price as tobacco.
07. Clear our jails of casual users, but not the dealers.
One item we MUST NOT overlook is this. Marijuana is bulky, hard to
hide, hard to transport, hard to keep secret where it is grown and needs to be
somewhat fresh.
Criminals can carry thousands of dollars worth of the coca or poppy
drugs in their pocket, while a wheelbarrow or pickup truck would be necessary
to carry half that dollar amount of marijuana.
I have been told you can get the poppy or coca drugs on a fourth of the
street corners of our big cities. But if you want marijuana, arrangements must
be made and great additional risks face both the criminal dealer and user. If
you were a drug dealer, would you deal in poppy and coca products or the bulky
easy to spot marijuana, especially, when the penalties are about the same?
There are thousands of people using the expensive, addictive poppy and
coca drugs simply because it is much more risky and difficult to obtain
marijuana!
So, to completely legalize marijuana would immediately cut off
billions of dollars from the poppy and coca trade. In addition, the price of
these hard drugs would drop drastically, there by lessening the need for users to
resort to thefts and other crimes to finance their habit.
With marijuana legal, a large portion of our crime will instantly
disappear and many hard drug users may soon become gardeners and solid
citizens.
Now we must turn our attention to the poppy and coca drugs. So far, we
have reduced both the cost and the distribution of these addictive drugs by
legalizing marijuana.
Next, we must take the profit out of these hard drugs. How do we
do that? I am glad you asked. Don't forget, we have billions and billions and
billions of dollars to use that are now being wasted in hundreds and hundreds
of ways trying to fight the drugs and drug dealers head on.
Let us try some end runs and some passes over the dealer's heads.
First, we legalize the drugs. (That means we decriminalize the possession and
use of these drugs and make treatment available and legal.) Clear our jails of
casual users. Institute a detoxification system in our cities, which one may
attend without stigma or reprisal. Then we:
01. Go where the stuff is grown and buy it. Hire farmers in other
countries to grow the poppy and cocoa plants. Out bid the dealers. We wouldn't
have to do this but two or three times. There might be a fight at first, but
when the dealers see that we mean to do this they will back off or die
defending their farms and pipelines. Either way, we win.
02. Bring the raw stuff back to the states and process it in a sanitary
and controlled environment. Make more lightly refined product and less of the
highly refined.
03. Sell it through state owned distribution centers, drug stores, or
out patient clinics - BY PRESCRIPTION.
04. This means the patient (addict) must consult a doctor who may also
counsel or advise the patient on the best method of ridding himself of the
habit. Also, he might suggest marijuana to them as a substitute that can help
relieve the addict's pain while trying to stop his addiction to the hard drugs.
Insurance companies should be happy because their crime and medical cost will
drop drastically to offset any additional treatment cost to them.
05. Set up emergency clinics where the addict can get the stuff for a
cheap price if he signs to see a doctor later.
06. Set up a computer hot line so doctors can cross check and see that
the patient is not seeing others to get the drugs.
07. Establish farms where kids in drug trouble or from blighted areas
can sign up (or, be assigned). They would get some pay, but they also get much
more. They get drug treatment, counseling, education, room and board, sports,
skill, craft training and entertainment. There should be libraries, computers
and moral training (but not religious instruction). This will pay off in lower
crime, more useful people and we can do it with a very small portion of the tax
money we save from fighting the useless drug war.
08. Produce and products of the farms could pay some of the expenses.
09. After some period of time they could get leave, trips to important
places and be instructed in business as they complete their courses. Businesses
should be encouraged to hire them. After all, many of these kids are very
bright. They are just dumb and ignorant of the social and educational skills.
These camps and schools will instruct the kids in these skills.
10. Dealers could turn themselves in, accept counseling,
rehabilitation, serve some time and go on probation. Those who sought to escape
or continue selling would be put in jail and kept there.
11. Family and close friends who do not cooperate in exposing dealers,
should be classified as accomplices and be jailed as examples to others.
12. Now we attack the money pipeline. Anyone found laundering money for
the dealers should be stripped of their citizenship and deported, or jailed.
13. Off shore banking must be reported by banks in the USA. If not, the
Chairman of the Board and the President of that bank, or CEO shall be charged
as accomplices along with any others involved.
14. Any large money order (say $5000 or more), travelers’ check or
cashier's check must be reported if the check or money order is assigned to
over seas recipients or cashed in foreign banks.
15. Houses, boats, cars or other high priced items, bought with cash,
must be reported.
16. Credit card use of five thousand dollars or more payable to over
seas accounts or businesses must be reported.
17. Banks with over seas connections must report large money transfers
or face criminal charges.
18. Auditors found to be in collusion with banks, financial houses and
such shall go to jail under a stiff penalty law.
19. Over seas businesses owned by US residents shall submit their over
seas banking records or be refused the privilege of transferring their profits
to or from US banks.
20. Cash deposits of ten thousand dollars or more must be reported by
banks and financial institutions.
21. From time to time the treasure department shall change our money so
large sums of hoarded money must be exchanged or totally lost.
22. All depositors shall be fingerprinted. Anyone set of prints showing
more than two bank accounts, shall be investigated and must justify the extra
accounts.
23. The classification of a dealer must not include the person who gets
a little for his friends. But, it should include anyone who receives drugs in
bulk (say, $2000 worth or more per month).
Let me stop and commit on these drastic steps. Many of these items are already
in place, but only for the convenience of the IRS. Also, I would suggest, they would
only be on the law books and enforced for five years or so. After all, we don't
want to lose our freedoms, so any of these items passed by the government must
have a built in limitation of time with no renewal possible. With our other
steps in progress, that limited period would be enough time to make the dealers
run for cover. In five or so years, the American people would own their country
and their streets again.
Such measures will inconvenience the financial institutions, but
compliance would make laundering money very difficult and costly. I also
realize, the financial institutions and dealers would soon find ways to
circumvent the process and laundering money would not totally dry up. But,
enough financial institutions and businesses would suffer the penalties that,
selling drugs and laundering money would become secondary to trying to use some
of the money they all ready have.
I have no objection to any one being rich. I do object if that wealth
is the result of their crimes, their dishonesty, or if their wealth was taken
from innocent people, or the poor who cannot afford it.
Our crime situation is growing like kudzu on an abandoned South Georgia
farm. What are we going to do about it? Strong-arm tactics that are being used
today will only destroy our freedoms and corrupt more law enforcement and
judicial agents. Are we going to continue corrupting and destroying ourselves,
our government, our law enforcement people, our economy and our families? Are
we going to continue to meet these crime waves head on and continue to LOSE
EVERYTHING, as we are doing today?
The ultimate result of our present course of wasteful action against
crime and drugs will result in the loss of the very thing that makes America
different from the rest of the world. OUR FREEDOMS! Americans are called
CITIZENS. In most other countries the people are called subjects, populous,
consumers or natives.
All ready, the believers who run businesses in this country are
demonstrating their dictatorial and pietistic attitude toward the rest of us by
taking hair samples and drug test of their employees. They do this so they can
build the employees' drug history from their hair. This is blackmail. These
believers use their economic and political positions of power to hold America
hostage to their antiquated concept that they have heard from the Almighty and
THEY KNOW BEST. All we have to do to see if they do know best is to read our
newspaper listen to the radio and watch TV. If their beliefs were correct, then
our civilization would not be in such terror and depravity.
If we don't do some of the things I have outlined here, the situation
will just get worse, more costly and more depraved and WE TOO may soon be
called subjects and have OUR doors kicked in.
Besides, doing more of the same, as we are doing now, the next big step
will be the loss of many more of our freedoms. Then, when that fails, a bona
fide dictatorship, or something that closely resembles it, will come to us with
promises to clear our streets, suppress crime and stop all the neighborhood
problems and wars. Big Brother will have arrived at last! AND I DON'T LIKE
THAT! And who will be supporting and encouraging the take over of ALL of our
freedoms? You guessed it. The criminals and the BELIEVERS who will want MORE
PROHIBITIONS on MORE and MORE things.
We see that much of our crime is actually caused by those well meaning
but misinformed people who would withhold part of the cure and protection which
we could have in our fight against this costly tragedy of drugs in our nation.
They insist on keeping marijuana illegal. Those who would classify marijuana as
illegal (and a sin) are stealing the future from themselves and from you and
me. But, worst of all, they are stealing a safe, secure and productive life
from their own children and grand children.
If some of our religious people will stop and think logically for a
moment, they will see that their religion and their God would have us fight
crime and drugs with common sense (not dogs, guns, clubs and jails). Common
sense will produce success for all of us. Certainly, the misuse of drugs is
wrong! But then, so is the misuse of automobiles, or any thing else. We don't
prohibit kitchen knives because someone misuses one to cut up someone else. Let
us face our problems like adults, put away ancient childish thoughts and rules
and stop destroying our civilization and our future.
Don't forget. It was the poppy drug that was used by the British to
conquer China. Don't let this happen to America. Maybe I should say,
"Don't let it continue to happen in the United States of America. Wake
up!"
In the whole world the USA has the highest percentage of its citizens
in jail, mostly for drug use and drug possession.
The nation with the least per capital crime in the civilized world is
Holland. How do they handle drugs and drug crimes? I am glad you asked that
question, too. They LEGALIZED MARIJUANA. Not only is their crime rate the
lowest, they also have the least per capital deaths from accidents, murder and
such and their ratio of longevity is very high. People live longer in Holland
than in most other countries. Holland is also a religious country, but their
leaders saw the problem, saw the solutions and put them in to practice. It does
work! If it works for Holland, then it will work for the United States of
America.
If I were religious, I would say, marijuana is one of the greatest
natural gifts God ever gave to this earth. I just hope He also gave us enough wisdom
to use marijuana as a weapon against hard drugs and crime and to use it wisely
and properly.
Big Brother is now riding high and fast on the crest of the drug war
and related crime problems, and getting rich, I might add. Why don't we put a
STOP to all this foolishness and light our backfire? Legalize marijuana and let
us begin to take the money and crime out of hard drugs. Please!!! Give us back
our streets! Give our kids a safe opportunity to live the
AMERICAN DREAM!!!
LET'S DO IT!!!.
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