Reducing Crime

The World Report 2009 put out by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime is nothing but more propaganda aimed at trying to convince us to continue buying into the “war on drugs”. For this blog, I was going to quote parts of the first section of the report but there were so many things that were incorrect and attacks on intelligent and rational people that they don’t even justify a response.

The very fact that drugs are grouped as being equal with crime without the inclusion of tobacco and alcohol in this is continuing to separate these psychoactive substances as something different then illicit drugs yet they are not. Crimes occur surrounding the use of alcohol and tobacco and they are not without their problems which is mentioned in this report yet still continues to say they are different.

The report is filled with propaganda comments aimed at imposing fear and irrationality such as “illicit drugs continue to pose a health danger to humanity” and that “much of this public debate is characterized by sweeping generalizations and simplistic solutions”. These are both wrong and continue to put misguided attempts to a serious problem. We don’t outlaw automobiles yet they are posing an obvious health threat and the public debate is characterized by rational use of scientific research and professionals from around the world finally speaking out against the harm that the drug war is causing.

The statement “changes are needed….rather than by pursuing the different goals of abandoning such protection” is seriously misguided. The changes being asked for when ending the war on drugs is not one of ending protection to those that are addicted but rather beginning a new way of distributing all psychoactive drugs in a respectful and autonomous manner thus not creating an entire population of “criminals” by making it illegal. It is only humans that make this illegal, not any other supreme being as so many people believe (it being immoral to alter consciousness as some religious people believe). The use of drugs is a fact of our life and simply decriminalizing still only makes 1/2 equation illegal as providing the product is still illegal thus really making the entire equation still illegal.

Let’s apply this to automobiles. So they are made illegal due to the carbon emissions harming humans and it decided that using it is decriminalized but buy it isn’t so, the car dealers still kill each other with the customers caught in the middle. The dealers still work at providing the harmful automobile (oil-gas using instead of electric - that is illegal too) and the product is still uncontrolled thus killing its consumers. How does this help or decrease problems? It doesn’t and it sure won’t reduce the harm done by the so called - car dealership criminals. How about we legalize electric cars and make initiations to those who make it safer and cheaper for people to use rather then the opposite?

Using drugs can be compared to driving a car and both are not going away and we seem to want to do it no matter the harm it may led to (changing climates and potential addiction). Isn’t this defined as addiction, using something even when having negative consequences, in all areas of life (think societal - financial - economy crash, health -chronic cancer and lung problems - social - increased war and competition - etc ) and for what - so we can drive a car?

Another thing that I wonder is why aren’t there reports about legalizing or decriminalizing murder? Why isn’t their a public outcry about this? Because it is wrong without a doubt, we don’t need to discuss this as deep down potentially to the genetic level, it is wrong to kill - plain and simple.

More quotes from the World Report 2009 - “legalize and tax argument is unethical and uneconomical” - why then do we legalize gambling and alcohol and tax it?
Human trafficking has no comparison to using drugs especially if causing no harm which can be done - human trafficking was made illegal years ago when slavery feel in North America - how is this the same as legalizing a drug that has no feelings or future potential of leading a wonderful life? A drug is a object with no life in it and thus no feelings, comparing the control of drugs to humans is absolutely ignorant and indicates having little to no understanding of the problems that arise from drug using, abusing and addiction.

There is no indicating that drugs increase if made legal as has been shown through history as various drugs have been made illegal throughout history including chocolate and tobacco both of which didn’t change in its addiction rates. Use isn’t indicative of abuse or addiction.

The comments of the the debate of the regulated market being naive and myopic are ignorant and hurtful comments again aimed at trying to maintain status quo and attempting to maintain the dominating and harmful control over the drug war to maintain it due to the hidden agenda of these people. It is not to help protect society as is being portrayed.

Indicating that a drug epidemic would be inevitable in developing countries is absolutely again indicating naivety in the problem as they have less problems with drugs not due to the high controls they have preventing the access to drugs but rather due to less class difference meaning less oppression of the poor classes as a result they have less mental health problems resulting in less addiction issues and cases of dislocation or loss of identity or culture.

The report is no0t only further perpetuating the myths of crimes being a result of drugs but also that now they have to get tough on crime as it goes along with drugs. This is true but only due to their generating it. You don’t see Molson Canadian killing Coors but you do see them joining and becoming one powerful company but certainly still not as powerful as the once Al Capone or other Mafia giants made possible due to the prohibition of alcohol. The crime has disappeared as the laws disappeared.

Why can’t we learn that victimless laws (prostitution, drug laws, homosexuality, women having the vote, even the one-child law) generate crime not humans if the humans are not necessarily victim. We can’t necessarily prohibit something that humans do that is natural and not necessarily harmful to another (I’m non the fence about the one-child law) although at times, they may have harm, they don’t all the time. Those who hire prostitutes may not be married with children or those who use cocaine or heroin don’t end up stealing to feed their drug habit but rather are law-abiding citizens otherwise.

Crime is a generation of the drug laws not the other way around and until we stop this madness of persecuting those that provide me with something I want, then we have a problem. I don’t kill, steal, hurt, abuse or take advantage of others and my use of drugs affects no others but I certainly feel it enhanced my life. In fact, I give my life to illicit drugs (MDMA specifically for treating my PTSD) and I am not ashamed. We need to end the drug war as it is only a war on innocent and good people or the sick people who don’t jail but rather compassion.

Please don’t let the report make you think drug dealers need to be stopped, they need to be made legal just as they were for alcohol prohibition. What happened to the Al Capon’s after the end of prohibition? They went on to controlling the other legal activities (gambling, sex (women)). The laws prohibiting sex for sale and drugs for sale only oppress those predominantly involved in them - women for the sex and drug users and those with brain disorders to be controlled (non - religious people and those who want to open their minds - not listen to the government)!!

Down with oppression of all!!