Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Drugs and Alcohol If we have not encountered these problems ourselves, all of us have known someone touched by these vices. When individual abuse of drugs and alcohol causes problems for that individual or for society at large, we advocate a compassionate response of rehabilitation rather than the brutal response of violence. As a society, we must attack the economic and moral hopelessness that leads to the downward spiral of alcohol, drugs and violence. We recognize that prisons are a breeding ground for criminality, and we support the release and rehabilitation of all non-violent offenders with no record of offenses against others, property or public safety. Because demand for drugs leads to imports that fund enemies of the United States, the government must adopt a rational approach that enables it to better control that demand within a civil, medical framework. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Monday, April 26, 2010
5:49 PM
Lord, I need you to heal me, because getting kicked in the head is a bummer, but I feel like I am not worthy to ask you directly - I could not find the voice. In the meantime I hope you will not hold it against me. A real doctor gave me a cursory visual test to make sure I do not have a brain tumor or something.
That said, it seems like if we do what the man recommended, and love one another, we can get through the day and go to sleep better than the day before - and without bothering Jesus, who may want to spend the afternoon building some furniture or something. Only God is limitless, but if we work together as a family, we can still accomplish a lot. I need to be able to not have a migraine, and I still function and think fine. What I lack are friends who are not opposed to what I need on one extreme or another - either that I am a square for saying I need help from others to keep the habit/addiction in check - or on the other hand that I am crazy and/or undeserving of justice and/or worthless to society because I toke some weed.
It makes Mr. Karzai's recent revocation of liquor licenses for foreign-owned bars in Afghanistan all the more puzzling, since so many people grow hemp and poppies there. I have no interest in heroin. I also have recognized my alcoholism and how negatively that affects people who like me. So, I don't go to bars usually, or if I do, I get soda water and lime. I don't miss parties - most really are not much fun when you are not drunk enough to endure the veiled cruelty and self-deception so weirdly and widely uttered in the current day.
So it is my choice to refrain from alcohol, just as it is my choice to smoke a little pot so I don't have migraines (or joint pain). I would rather eat it, but clinic prices are still as high as black market street prices, which is absurd, considering how inexpensive it is to grow the stuff - really the whole system, black market and mostly sham medicinal market - they are both part of the same con to keep prices high so criminals can buy guns and the forest industry can continue to clear land instead of retraining their workers as farmers to keep up with fair market supply and demand to produce the same goods.
Mr. Karzai may in fact mean well, just as people did in this country's dry experiment, but like them, they will only end up driving money away from his constituents and into the hands of the smugglers who have tricked the Afghan people with a farce of piety. Then his constituents will be worse off, and he will lose the election anyway.
There is no solution other than liberty, certainly with alcohol and hemp. The most effective strategy for government to achieve the goal of social stability is to take the bulk of the money away from criminal organizations and regulate it through establishments like bars, and to be there to help the people who want to make a choice for themselves. Then, if those people can heal, they will help their friends and family to heal, and people will work it out among themselves.
As for other drugs, if criminal organizations cannot make a profit on their widely consumed vice items like weed and booze, law enforcement will have much better focus on who the dangerous people are among the throngs of everyday people. The prices of those drugs will go up, which will make it easier to detect specific patterns of supply and demand. Financial incentive to join gangs will go down. It's not perfection, but it fits better with being human.
medicinal use should require a doctor (and legalize pot too)
I gave up on Easter, after three days of the most excruciating migraine I'd had in more than a year. It was as if an imp were standing on my shoulder, gleefully waiting for opportunities to jab the side of my head with a pitchfork. I smoked some pot, and my migraine disappears. Jah's fruits are my shield and my protector, though I don't think the angels are the fashion police about my hairstyle or my hat. People can go overboard on anything, and the fact remains that lungs are not intended to be a digestion organ for burned carbon by-products - smoking is not healthy. Don't lie to yourself; the truth will set you free.Lord, I need you to heal me, because getting kicked in the head is a bummer, but I feel like I am not worthy to ask you directly - I could not find the voice. In the meantime I hope you will not hold it against me. A real doctor gave me a cursory visual test to make sure I do not have a brain tumor or something.
That said, it seems like if we do what the man recommended, and love one another, we can get through the day and go to sleep better than the day before - and without bothering Jesus, who may want to spend the afternoon building some furniture or something. Only God is limitless, but if we work together as a family, we can still accomplish a lot. I need to be able to not have a migraine, and I still function and think fine. What I lack are friends who are not opposed to what I need on one extreme or another - either that I am a square for saying I need help from others to keep the habit/addiction in check - or on the other hand that I am crazy and/or undeserving of justice and/or worthless to society because I toke some weed.
It makes Mr. Karzai's recent revocation of liquor licenses for foreign-owned bars in Afghanistan all the more puzzling, since so many people grow hemp and poppies there. I have no interest in heroin. I also have recognized my alcoholism and how negatively that affects people who like me. So, I don't go to bars usually, or if I do, I get soda water and lime. I don't miss parties - most really are not much fun when you are not drunk enough to endure the veiled cruelty and self-deception so weirdly and widely uttered in the current day.
So it is my choice to refrain from alcohol, just as it is my choice to smoke a little pot so I don't have migraines (or joint pain). I would rather eat it, but clinic prices are still as high as black market street prices, which is absurd, considering how inexpensive it is to grow the stuff - really the whole system, black market and mostly sham medicinal market - they are both part of the same con to keep prices high so criminals can buy guns and the forest industry can continue to clear land instead of retraining their workers as farmers to keep up with fair market supply and demand to produce the same goods.
Mr. Karzai may in fact mean well, just as people did in this country's dry experiment, but like them, they will only end up driving money away from his constituents and into the hands of the smugglers who have tricked the Afghan people with a farce of piety. Then his constituents will be worse off, and he will lose the election anyway.
There is no solution other than liberty, certainly with alcohol and hemp. The most effective strategy for government to achieve the goal of social stability is to take the bulk of the money away from criminal organizations and regulate it through establishments like bars, and to be there to help the people who want to make a choice for themselves. Then, if those people can heal, they will help their friends and family to heal, and people will work it out among themselves.
As for other drugs, if criminal organizations cannot make a profit on their widely consumed vice items like weed and booze, law enforcement will have much better focus on who the dangerous people are among the throngs of everyday people. The prices of those drugs will go up, which will make it easier to detect specific patterns of supply and demand. Financial incentive to join gangs will go down. It's not perfection, but it fits better with being human.
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