XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   5trfg6h7 wrote:   
   > "johannes"  wrote in message   
   > news:49D7162E.A976327F@size436464778fitter.com...   
   >> M_P wrote:   
   >>> On Mar 10, 12:05 pm, Dr John Watson    
   >>> wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> The report said prices for illegal drugs had dropped by 10 to 30 percent.   
   >>> The prohibitionists' answer will be that we just need to do more of   
   >>> what's not working. What's the definition of insanity, again?   
   >> 'Not working' doesn't mean: Not working; that's too literal. It just   
   >> means that some drugs might still get through.   
   >   
   > It means that 90% of drugs get through - that is, those drugs   
   > that are imported. The ones that are home grown (weed, salvia,   
   > mushrooms, synthetics) of course never face the hurdle of   
   > having to pass borders.   
   >   
   >> Enforcement hasn't failed. Try smuggling drugs into far East countries,   
   >> and it's well know that you lose your life at the gallows or firing squad.   
   >   
   > Who would smuggle drugs INTO the Far East?   
      
   	Don't you remember the threads on the people being   
   flogged and executed for smuggling into Malaysia and Singapore?   
   The Thai dealer executions and the Chinese dealer executions?   
      
      
   > They have enough opium, weed and anything else to last   
   > them a lifetime.   
      
   	Some nations do and some don't.  Hemp used to be a sacred plant to   
   the Japanese but now is outlawed and all its products,   
   The Chinese historically used cannabis as a medication but it   
   is now against the law there,  Japan & Korea have   problems with the   
   use of stimulants (good old methadrine) but the Yakuza in Japan   
   control the drug sales there.  They used to be able to use mushrooms   
   in Japan but the law was changed,   
   	The little corners of the world where drugs may be grown   
   for various reasons have plenty of whatever makes the most money   
   and it has to be smuggled to the nations where it is used.   
   	But the reason for these nations having prohibition is   
   the Single Convention on Narcotics which assent to was required for   
   admission to the United Nations.   
      
   > Prohibition is an abject failure, fighting drugs is like fighting   
   > the plant world.   
      
   	But think how much it has enriched the unscrupulous so if   
   the object was really to create a black market and fill the prisons   
   with young folks not wise enough to stay below the radar then it   
   has been a thumping success.   
   	Prohibition never works to keep a drug out of the users   
   hands except if that drug needs quality lab work such as LSD.   
   In the case of LSD it has been years since I heard the drug   
   dealers on Haight croon Aaaccciiiid. Grass and Pillls as they   
   moved thru the crowds.   
      
   	Prohibition sucks the money from the pockets of the   
   tax paying citizens and the black market destroys lives.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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