Prohibition Feeds the State
Actually, fear feeds the State.
Prohibition is just a by-product of a bunch of fearful people looking for a blanket to hide under while the make-believe Knight in a blue costume scares the boogie man away. It is all just fantasy. It actually makes your world far more dangerous. It makes the make-believe Knight in a blue costume extremely dangerous. It also makes the boogie man himself more dangerous.
The profits and violence of prohibition make everything worse.
Fear feeds all the bad things. Look at the news. It sells everything. It even sells our own enslavement. That is not an overstatement in the least. Fear makes us feel bad. It makes us want someone to fix it for us. Most of us are not going to try to solve our own problems, especially when we are led away from what the problem even is.
It isn't some grand conspiracy. It is just the way we are. This is all just a fairly natural course of action that is self-serving from the top down. The solution is to better understand what the issues actually are and look for solutions ourselves.
Learning and solving solutions for ourselves is the greatest inoculation from fear and the incorrect actions that result from fear.
Governments Create Prohibition And Prohibition Creates Black Markets.
There are no black markets without government. There is no effective prohibition without government.
Once we see a government prohibit a thing, the results are rather predictable. Eventually, we end up with something like Krokadil. The Krokadil problem is a particularly poignant example of how prohibition leads to increasingly more dangerous substances.
Price increases and quality (especially purity) decreases. The risk of being caught with contraband creates an ever increasing demand for more potent per weight drugs.
We saw this with alcohol prohibition. Bootleggers would rather ship high alcohol content (more concentrated product) which is worth a lot more. If they were going to get caught, the punishment is mostly the same, so why not go for maximum profit? While there is no legal recourse, why not put other contaminants in the product to increase its potency or apparent weight? When we look at what is happening to illegal drugs, we see all sorts of detrimental things put in them for these reasons. In an open environment, fraud and injury could be prosecuted.
The Paradox Is That Ending Prohibition Can Lead To Huge Influx Of Tax Revenue For the State (Government)
We are watching this happen in places like Colorado where legalized marijuana is now reaping huge rewards in tax revenues.
If this revenue was put to good use, I would be fine with that. We know that isn't how it works. Even if it is going to a great cause, most of the money will still be wasted in the quagmire that is government bureaucracy.
This is why I highly recommend full decriminalization rather than legalization. The difference is very significant.
- Decriminalization: Nullifies all laws, basically just striking them from the code. Makes things free like tomatoes.
- Legalization: The government creates a legal framework and regulations. Alcohol is legalized, but not decriminalized. As such, many jurisdictions restrict sales and distribution as well as price controls and other things.
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Just to clarify what I’m saying below it is my understanding decriminalisation means you won’t get a criminal sentence for possession but still be ticketed and lose the thing you have. Legalisation should make things free to possess in any amount but in the case of weed that’s not 100% true, in all legal states. So legalisation means something is decriminalised by default?
I definitely support decriminalisation of all substances so long as they are only harmful to you(ie drugs are decriminalised but not lethal poisons). Legalisation of all substances I somewhat support but there definitely need to be age limits and some drugs might be too addictive or lethal to be sold in shops, it’s a tough one.
Here is maybe something useful on the topic from @doitvoluntarily
Legalized Isn't Synonymous With Freedom
I don't see anything? - now i do lol
I think legalization is the framework of laws around a thing. It can vary greatly. Decriminalization is synonymous with abolishment of laws around a thing. I'm sure there can be much debate about that, but that is my interpretation.
I'm not sure what I think about age limits. I'm all for the safety of children, but we have some very interesting correlations about children and alcohol to look at. Where we find that young people have access to alcohol, they tend to have less problems like binge drinking and other issues.
When it comes to substance abuse and addiction, there is a lot of evidence that those things are independent of the substance, but are more related to social/ economic and self identity health.
These are certainly complicated issues, and go beyond black and white.
With penitentiaries being privately owned and run like businesses, human beings have become a commodity for corporate owners. They need frivolous laws in place so that they can put people in jail so that they can make more profits. They also need a portion of those profits to lobby governments to keep things illegal. You're right that decriminalization is the answer, but unfortunately these things are held in place not just by the government but by the entire political economic system that's gone off the rails.
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Yes. This is only possible through the monopoly of the State. Those prisons would not have the options they "enjoy" now otherwise.
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@diggndeeper.com, In my opinion, most dangerous tool is Fear. Unfortunately one generation is transferring fear to next generation and when from young age fear feeding is done then definitely many will live life of slaves because they cannot fight towards what is wrong.
Have a great time ahead.
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Very true. Hopefully, in the age of information and transparency, that may change at least a bit.
Not sure because in a way Technology making us so engaged in opposite ways of natural ways. But let's hope for the best.
Have a pleasant time ahead and stay blessed.
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