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You hear and see a lot when you are in WALMART——-well then you need to target MLK Road, Moose Lodge Road,  Eagle Road, Stephens Road, Concordia Park, BJ Road, Cowan Street and bunches of houses on the surrounding roads there………The subdivision like going to jonesville just right outside the Ferriday city limits on the Left side where that boy got killed on the 4-wheeler…..right before you get to that Chevron gas station one of those EDITION subdivisions.    I am sure there are plenty more but this would be a huge start to clear out.  These are not new places either.  They have been in business for years…….  And Plenty in Monterey.    

Were people able to go to the store and buy their weed, those people, and every other person along the distribution chain would be forced to find something else to do.   The cops can pop one here and there but someone else just comes along to fill the underground demand.  Take away the underground demand and they are all popped, every last one.  Millions, if not billions, of dollars and thousands of lives saved.

Now, I understand that some people don’t want to live in a country where people are free to grow and smoke marijuana in the privacy of their own homes.  I mean, what other people do with themselves in the privacy of their own homes should really be of concern to others.   Oh, sure, it doesn’t affect other people in any way but, hey, what are we if not our brother’s keeper?  We REALLY need to know what perfect strangers are ingesting behind those doors.  It might not be a busy-body approved substance.  If they aren’t going to live their lives the way other people think they should, they should be made to, right?  I mean, freedom and liberty, that’s so 20th century.  Its hard to believe we made it that far, and thrived even, with no drug laws on the books.  Thank God for those laws.  Until they were made, we didn’t know about all the drug criminals, because there weren’t any.  No drug-related stabbings, shootings, cartels, gang-wars, mass imprisonment of U.S citizens and trillion dollar bills to the U.S. taxpayer.  I’d say all that is worth it to keep someone I don’t know from getting a head-buzz in his own home.

Now, Crack . . . we can’t have anyone sitting on their sofa watching “Honey Boo Boo” while smoking a fatty and eating Cheetos.  Think of all the lives that destroys.

Now Crack . . . We can’t have folks out there watching “Honey Boo Boo” on TV while smoking a fatty and eating Cheetos.  Think how many lives that would destroy.

LOL!  I am happy to say I had to Google “Honey Boo Boo”.

I agree that people should have the right to do whatever they want to do with their “one and only life ” ,even to self destroy themselves with drugs if they choose . But in reality it doesn’t work that way . Someone is always hurt by an individuals drug use , especially within the immediate family circle and communities these individual live in  .  Government guarantees that drugs will always be expensive by making it illegal . This creates another problem for funds depleted addict users who can’t afford the grossly over inflated prices via the help of government  . They’ll result to all sorts of crimes to get their next fix .  If you legalize drugs you’ll have a complete breakdown of present society within this country . You’ll have a flood of new drug users and new addicts within days of the eventual legalizations .  Drugs will become so cheap that most drug king pins , street level dealers will be force to find other means to make their corrupt livings . No one will want to sell drugs for pennies on the dollar . The only way you could safely legalize drugs is in a society fully inhabited with super rational humans but presently that’s not the case in our country or the world for that matter .   Life in our society is so far from super rational that it’s hinges on the absolute scary . No ,  I for one don’t agree with legalizing drugs in a society with the present mindset . Be glad you have a senators/congressman that realize the bedlam that would result if drugs were to be legalized in such a violent society as ours . Super rationality requires total self responsibility and objectivity on the individuals part , the polar opposite of what’s going on presently in our society . Legalizing drugs in such a society is to flirt with pure uncontrolled chaos as society utterly breaks down before our eyes !

 You make some valid points but I think you are overlooking a couple of things.

First, you seem to be going under the assumption that people aren’t doing drugs already.  They are.  Very few, if any, people refrain from drug use because of laws.  Drugs are just too easy to get and do in private.  That is why drug laws allow civil liberties violations in order to catch many small-time dealers.  They do it at home.

Second, bedlam is already here.  Cartel wars with high death tolls rage in Mexico and on our border because drugs are illegal.  Inner city gang warfare death tolls are because drugs are illegal.  Mass incarcerations are a result of drugs being illegal.  Almost all violent crime related to drugs results from protection of illegal trafficking, not by the end user.  Thousands dead, many Americans lives ruined.  This is a case where the cure is far worse than the disease.  Drugs are not what is harming America.  The ineffective, deadly and costly war against them is.  That is where 99% of the violence and all the cost is.

Third, the existence of a law does not make otherwise irresponsible people, responsible.  People already do drugs.  They do a lot of drugs.  You don’t hear about them but they have to exist because the trade is enormous.  Why don’t you hear about them?  They mind their business and generally don’t harm a soul.  The few ones you do hear about are usually criminals first and drug users second.  There were no drug laws in our country for most of its existence.  If drug laws actually help, how are so many doing drugs?  If you think the average recreational drug user in America looks like the dirty crack addict on the corner, you are significantly mistaken.

Someone is not always hurt by someone else’s drug use.  That simply is not true.   Most people in this country use some drug or other and it never effects the lives of others in any meaningful way.  All those same arguments were made during prohibition.  Alcohol destroys families, makes people who drink it degenerates, etc.  Prohibition doesn’t work.  In this case, it causes significant harm in terms of money and lives.

MARIJUANA >UN-CUT< WILL BE LEGAL IN MOST STATES WITH-IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS. MARIJUANA IN NO WAY IS COMPAIRED TO CRACK COCAINE IF YOU GET TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE, ONE HUNDRED HIGH OFF  MARIJUANA, THE OTHER HIGH OFF ALCOHOL AND PUT ALL TWO HUNDRED BEHIND THE WHEEL ON A BUSY HIGHWAY DRIVING A COUPLE OF HOURS. HOW MANY AND FOR WHAT REASON MOST WOULD BE PULLED OVER? IF THERE'S ANY STATISTIC OUT THERE TO COMPAIR THE DEATH RATE AND VIOLENCE FROM THE TWO, MARIJUANA WOULD BE ZERO. THE PIECE-PIPE THAT THE INDIANS SMOKED WASN'T ANYTHING BUT MARIJUANA. THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE IS: THERE ARE TO MANY PEOPLE BEHIND BARS FOR MARIJUANA. A DRUNK-DRIVER CAN KILL SOMEONE AND ONCE THEY SOBER UP THEY ARE OUT THE NEXT DAY. THE REAL REASON THE GOVERNMENT IS AGAINST THE SELL OF MARIJUANA, IS CASH MONEY WITHOUT TAXES. ONCE IT'S LEGALIZE AND THOSE TAX DOLLARS START ROLLING IN, YOU WANT KNOW IT EVER EXISTED.    

Wow ! you’re obviously a huge proponent of drug use . The question should be why would anyone want to distort their perception of reality with drugs ?  Life is hard enough without the use of brain wave altering drugs . If I had to live next to a drug user it would be someone like you . If you’re not a drug user excuse my reference . Like I said earlier I believe people should be able to do whatever they want to do with their one and only life , no matter how irrational it is . As long as it doesn’t affect others . 

No, sir, I do not promote recreation drug use.  I promote life, liberty and property.  The drug war denies varying people all those.  I don’t know why people do drugs or watch reality TV.  I think both are about as equally destructive.  Most of what people do puzzles me.   I just believe in their right to do it.

 I also think people should be able to do pretty much as they want as long as they don’t infringe on the rights of others.  There are existing laws to deal with those who infringe on the rights of others.  That was our founders vision for the law in this country, to protect the rights we were born with.

Still, I can’t stress enough about the expanded police powers and the overall militarization of law enforcement resulting from the war on drugs.  All of it is for money.  Every bit.  Tax money and confiscated money, where one has to prove his innocence to claim his property.  Guilty until proven innocent.  Expressly forbidden in this country but done anyway.  Police claim to chase after the big fish cut the supply chain and such but that is only partly true.  What they really want is the money.  They know someone will fill his shoes in a matter of weeks if not sooner.  Then, later, they get to do it all over again.  Cash cow.  Never mind all the deaths.  This bothers me most about this “drug war”.

It’s amazing that our law enforcement can put all that man-power, costing the tax payers tens of thousands to fetch $100.00-$1000.00 marijuana bust. I can go to any town in America to buy weed. Just like I can go to any town in America to buy legal drugs and any other not yet legal drugs. When was the last time law enforcement made million dollar bust in this area, NEVER, because the real drug dealers flooding this area have ties to law enforcement period.