Insidious Drugs, Insidious Solutions - The War On Drugs Takes a Nasty Turn

Posted on | July 31, 2005 |

Meth is an insidious drug that has wormed its way into our society with devastating effect. It has destroyed people, families, and communities.

It seems only reasonable to temper its effects by regulating the products that contain the ingredients neccesary to create it (precursors). By removing products containing ephedrine and pseudo-ephedrine from the mainstream market, it will be more difficult for the mini meth labs to operate.

The sad fact is, however, that this isn’t going to stem the flow of meth into our neighborhoods. This move by multiple states across the U.S. has played right into the hands of the very South of the border drug lords who had previously not been able to penetrate a market where any addict with a chemistry set and access to the internet can make meth in their kitchen. This move will simply change the source of this nasty drug from the mini meth labs ran out of the homes of local addicts to the larger labs operated by larger, more organized crime syndicates.

It won’t solve the problem, it will just move more money to these untouchable organizations that already flood our streets and our schools with cocaine, heroin, and marijuana. Not being able to buy cold medicine in the U.S. won’t even begin to hamper these organizations who can purchase or steal these products, in bulk outside the U.S., and ship their finished drug products directly into the U.S. using existing trade routes.

Aside from these effects of enhancing the already unstoppable crime syndicates with a new influx of cash, this policy does something even more insidious. It punishes ordinary, law abiding citizens for the actions of others. If, every time some overzealous moron figured out a way to make a mind altering drug out of a readily available ingredient, the mighties in office banned those ingredients, there would be nothing left for the rest of us. (Whew, tough sentence.)

We, as a people, should not allow the lowest common denominator of our society to decide how we are going to live, and, by the lowest common denominator, I don’t mean the mighties in office. I mean the drug infested cretinous criminal element that we are now allowing, by the contents of their recipes, to dictate to us which cold medicines we are allowed to buy at the local convenience store.

We have allowed these carbon wastes to victimize us thrice! First, by bringing this crap into our neighborhoods, second, by further empowering organized crime in and around our country, and finally, by tricking us into giving up our own rights in exchange for an illusory cure to a much larger problem than this one drug. This course of action solves nothing and only creates new problems. It should be abandoned in favor of a better thought out course of action.

Later,
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