XPost: alt.activism.drug-war, talk.politics.drugs, uk.politics.drugs
XPost: rec.drugs.smart, rec.drugs.misc
From: Voter@Vote2016.com

The problem with drugs is in the commercial marketing and sale as recreational impulse items. They have hard liquor and cigarettes for sale in the checkout lanes at Walmart. They have free vodka samples at Vons. They have wine by the glass in the checkout lane at Sprouts Market. Could alcohol be marketed as a sports drink? How can it be marketed as a recreational drink? "Recreational" drugs - all drugs, should be marketed only for medicinal purposes, and when sold
by commercial organizations, sold only to those who have passed a several hour test on the dangers, or have been prescribed them by a physician - who should recommend they pass the test anyway, while prescribing the drug expeditiously for
the moment. Why move to market marijuana as a recreational drug? Why not at most
move to sell it, over the counter, to anyone, without prescription, like Advil? But better, why not also make its sale by a commercial organization, only allowed
to those who passed a test on intelligent uses, both medicinal and recreational.
And why not sell it in a separate unmarked store, or with a separate door, out of
sight, and out of mind, to those with habits.

The problem with drugs is not in the loose cigarettes sold on the street corners,
or with the use of drugs even in public. The problem is not with the exercise of
our human rights and liberties, which should always be held holy and sacrosanct.
The problem with drugs, is in the marketing and sale by commercial organizations,
which stands to be tempered and regulated. But prohibition is no substitute for
sound and intelligent regulations, no matter how prejudice someone's opinion may
be. Regulation does not inhibit the ultimate access to an object or activity. Prohibition does. And in doing so, begets a market outside the regulations of the
people. When no one has been victimized, no crime has been committed. Drugs are
not a crime. But marketing alcohol as a sports drink, or a recreational beverage,
is ludicrous. Marketing tobacco as a recreational inhalant, likewise is ludicrous. It's your human right to use both as you see fit. It's your human right to inhale spray paint if you see fit. It's your human right to apparently
harm yourself, as it's no one's right to judge the individual benefits or costs
of
what you are doing to yourself. But commercial organizations should not be supported in the advocation of such apparent degeneracies. What harms another is
wrong. What harms oneself is but bad. The interest of a commercial organization,
is frequently pure profit. And the potential harm from the items they sell, to earn profits, should be minimized, but without prohibition. Prohibition leaves
us
in poverty. Prohibition leaves us desperate, and with nowhere to turn for fulfillment. Your rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are insulted by prohibition.

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