Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960923171237.64073B-100000@hector> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:27:43 -0600 From: Just Me! <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU> Subject: Re: THE MORAL NEED TO LEGALIZE DRUG PRODUCTION & COMMERCIALIZATION To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Reinaldo Vicini wrote: >
> I believe drugs, beyond the health problem, which is dramatic, it is more
> of an *economics* problems. Consumers are losing a lot of money. Not on
> prevention campaigns, but on income for its own countries. To legalize is
> not a matter of making their kids healthier, but shifting the economics of
> the business from one place to the other.
I would argue that the legalization of drug production and commercialization (NOT consumption, for this should be up to the educated consumer to decide) is more than an economic (which certainly is) is a matter of simple and yet so difficult to apply good old COMMON SENSE!!!! But beware, only God knows the what are ALL the powers behind the interest to keep things as they are for doing otherwise would mean bad business!
> Illegal Drug Consumption is threatening us. We want the illegal drug out.
> We have a saying here "Pobre pero honrado" -Poor but honest (Correct??)-.
> Even if we know that the economic consequences could be difficult for our
> country.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the great majority of citizens on this planet would like to see drugs OUT of our lifes but this will remain a UTOPIAN desire UNTIL and UNLESS we educate ourselves from early childhood so as to never get hooked.
Finally, as long as there is someone willing to pay for drugs there will *ALWAYS* be somene else willing to take any chances in order to reap the economic profits of the vice for it makes simple COMMON SENSE and as some US military authority said recently not even all the armies in the world will suffice to stop its production. Only the eradication of consumption will stop production. One does not need to be an economic guru or genious to know this for it makes perfect sense!
Best regards,
The place is HERE, the time is NOW, let's do it!
J.C. Wandemberg