ICE junkies would be free to buy as much of the deadly substance as they want under a NSW Greens plan to decriminalise all drugs. (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21377432-5001021,00.html)
The Greens also want to introduce gay awareness material into classrooms down to preschool, calling for "the provision of factual and affirming materials about sexual orientation, transgender and intersex conditions at all levels of the education system".
Ms Rhiannon said children as young as four should be taught about gay relationships.
"We support these programs and they would be age specific," she said.
"It's not anything about teaching them to be gay, it's just about how the world is."
Drug addicts buy as much stuff as they can afford already. The Drug War has a neglible impact on drug users. However the $69 billion a year Drug War affects us all. It tramples our civil liberties and gives police reasons to search anyone who 'smells funny'. The zero-tolerance policy impacts innocent victim on a daily basis. I am one innocent victim.
Cops say legalize drugs. Ask them why. End Prohibition and yet another useless, going nowhere war against humans with the HEALTH issue of addiction. Addiction is NOT a criminal issue. Drug use is NOT a criminal issue. It is a health issue.
When ANYONE violates another human being and/or thier property you arrest them for that. I don't think arresting and incarcerating anyone for mere drug use is acceptable in a free and open society with the right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
When we can't keep drugs out of prisons, how on Earth do we ever expect to eradicate them from a free and open society?
In a free and open society I don't care if someone wants to get high and feel good to the point where I want to throw them in jail. As long as they don't harm me, others, and/or our property. I would like for them to get healthy. Jail and felony offenses for mere drug possession seems to counter that hope.
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And the fact that marijuana is STILL a Schedule I drug speaks volumes about how wrong the system is. It is PROHIBITED. Even cocaine is not PROHIBITED. The DEA, our government, thinks cocaine is safer than marijuana!! The DEA thinks marijuana is one of the worst 'drugs' known to man. Ya know, pretty much the only 'drug' that is impossible to overdose on, and does not create a chemical addiction in the body.
http://www.dea.gov/pubs/scheduling.html (http://www.dea.gov/pubs/scheduling.html)
We need to revamp the system. Prohibition, as we learned once before, does not work. In fact, it makes things worse. It increases crime and violence as markets are battled over with guns instead of lawyers. It puts drugs ON the streets where they can not be regulated by even minimally effective means. It GIVES the power to the Al Capones of today. The Al Capones set the age limits, where it will be sold, what it will be cut with, how much it will be sold for, who it is sold to, and where the revenue goes. We GIVE the black market the multi-billion dollar industry and in our arrogance, innocent victims perish and suffer in this war.