Smoking Pot

[Ninurta]

Perhaps they should recriminalize alcohol too , the damage that drug does and the trouble it causes for hospital staff and law enforcement must deserve equal treatment to a drug that doesn't kill its user or cause them to want to smash people in the face.

I gave up alcohol.

They tried that here about  century ago, but it didn't go well. What it did was the same as the criminalization of drugs - created a whole new criminal underworld class, and caused it to grow, and grow, and grow. That's how the Mafia made it big in the US... off the back of Prohibition. I do believe that Prohibition was the only Constitutional amendment that required another Constitutional amendment to fix it.

By then, however, the Mafia had moved in to other endeavors - diversified their business interests, so to speak. We see the same thing happening currently in the drug cartels - got their start and made their bones in drug smuggling, but are now diversifying their business interests into human trafficking as well as drug smuggling.

No telling where it will end if they don't nip it now, assuming it's not already too late.

That's the thing about trying to tell other folks how to run their own lives - it creates an instant criminal class, and once they've broken one law, they don't mind diversifying into breaking a crap ton of other laws, because they already breached the gates, After that, it's all over but the cryin'.

For example, they should have stopped at making murder and assault illegal, rather than trying to micromanage HOW folks commit murder and assault. Just let the base crime be illegal, and don't worry over the details of why and how that individual got sent to the gallows. The micromanaging causes entirely new criminal classes, and creates new business opportunities for the criminal classes - gun runners and folks selling butcher knives out of their trunks are just offshoots of the basic "thou shalt not kill" laws. Then, once those weapons runners have broken one law, even though they've never directly killed anyone, they don't mind diversifying their businesses to break more and more laws, and that eventually leads to even more killings to protect their own business interests.

Paradoxically, perhaps, over-legislation leads to lawlessness on more massive scales.

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