Hornberger: "repeal of all drug laws is a necessary pre-requisite for a free society"

[Zenaan Harkness]

The only way to end the endless war on drugs, is to actually end the
war on drugs and legalise all drugs:

  US Massacre In Mexico Requires Washington To Act, Here's What Could
  Happen Next
  https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-massacre-mexico-requires-washington-act-heres-what-could-happen-next
  https://www.fff.org/2019/11/07/another-drug-war-massacre/

  ... [USA Govt. suggestions]:

    - Option 1: Have the Mexican military crackdown even more
      fiercely than it already has during the past 10 years of fierce
      military drug warfare.

    - Option 2: Send in the US military and the CIA into Mexico.

    - Option 3. Capture the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel,
      extradite him to the United States, and jail him for the rest
      of his life.

  ... Jacob Hornberger:

    As we have been saying here at The Future of Freedom Foundation
    for 30 years, there is one — and only one — way to get rid of
    drug cartels, drug gangs, and drug lords. That way is through
    drug legalization, complete drug legalization. Not just
    marijuana. All drugs, including cocaine, heroin, meth, and
    opioids. Ditch them all.

    With drug legalization, the drug cartels, drug gangs, and drug
    lords are out out business overnight. Gone. Isn't that what
    drug-war proponents say they would like to see? Well, that's the
    only way to see it.

    That's what happened, of course, when statists decided to
    re-legalize booze. They finally realized that they were never
    going to put the booze cartels, booze gangs, and booze lords out
    of business by cracking down on them ever more fiercely. They
    finally realized that the only way to achieve that goal was
    through legalization. And sure enough, the re-legalization of
    booze put them all out of business," Hornberger wrote.

  And the probability of the US government ending the war on drugs is
  very low. So it's likely that AMLO and Washington will start
  increasing joint military operations against cartels in the not too
  distant future.




On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 02:26:23PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Posted with vehement in principle support for the position, and the
> need, to repeal all drug "prohibition" laws, to return some sanity to
> the Western world, eliminate the bulk of all alleged "criminals" in
> the West, and massively reduce crime and Western incarceration rates.
> 
> The numbers are in, the empirical evidence from Amsterdam to South
> America are overwhelmingly compelling, and the logic never left those
> with second neurone in the first place - even for those who are not
> 'statutorily illegal' drug users.
> 
> 
> 
>   Hornberger: The Evil Of The Drug War
>   https://www.zerohedge.com/health/hornberger-evil-drug-war
> 
>   https://www.fff.org/2019/10/28/the-evil-of-the-drug-war/
> 
>     With the exception of the U.S. national-security state and its
>     foreign policy of empire and intervention and its torture,
>     state-sponsored assassinations, coups, alliances with dictatorial
>     regimes, invasions, occupations, wars of aggression, illegal and
>     unconstitutional wars, mass secret surveillance, indefinite
>     detention, secret prison camps, drug experimentation on
>     unsuspecting people, denial of due process, denial of trial by
>     jury, kangaroo military tribunals, and other dark-side practices,
>     it would be difficult to find a better example of an evil and
>     immoral program than the war on drugs.
> 
>     Consider:
> 
>     1. Everyone, including the most ardent drug-war proponent, agrees
>        that this decades-long program has failed to achieve its goal,
>        which is a drug-free society.
> 
>     2. If failure was the only consequence of this program, that
>        would be one thing. But it’s not. Drug laws have brought Into
>        existence drug gangs, drug cartels, gang wars, drug
>        assassinations, drug kidnappings, burglaries, robberies,
>        murders, muggings, and official corruption.
> 
>     3. The drug war is also the most racially bigoted government
>        program since segregation, perhaps even more so. Under
>        segregation, government officials used the force of law to
>        keep the races separated, but at least they permitted blacks
>        to keep living in the community. With drug laws, they have
>        been able to remove blacks entirely from communities and
>        relocate them into places called penitentiaries, where they
>        are forced to spend a large portion of their lives. They have
>        also been able to use drug laws to harass, abuse, insult, and
>        humiliate African-Americans, Latinos, and other racial
>        minorities.
> 
>        That’s not to say, of course, that all law-enforcement agents
>        and all judges are racially bigoted. It is simply to say that
>        for those who are racially bigoted, the drug war is like
>        heaven on earth, in that it enables them to exercise their
>        bigotry in a legal manner and even get praised for it.
> 
>     4. The drug war has played a major role in the destruction of
>        liberty in America. Just think: They actually put people into
>        jail for doing nothing more than ingesting a substance that
>        politicians and bureaucrats, both at the state and federal
>        level, don’t approve of.
> 
>   Who cares whether politicians and bureaucrats approve of a
>   particular substance? What business is that of theirs?
> 
>   Actually, it’s none of their business what a person puts into his
>   mouth. Freedom necessarily entails the right to ingest whatever a
>   person wants to Ingest, no matter how harmful or destructive it
>   might be. When people live in a society where government officials
>   can punish them for ingesting unapproved substances, there is no
>   way that people in that society can legitimately be considered
>   free.
> 
>   The repeal of drug laws — all drug laws, not just marijuana laws —
>   is a necessary pre-requisite for a free society. It’s also a
>   prerequisite for a just and humane society, one that treats drug
>   addiction and drug use as a private problem, not a criminal-justice
>   one.
>