Comments on: Costa attempts to re-define ‘control’

By: Brian Kerr

Brian Kerr — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:39:49 +0000

The United Nations should be dismantled. It is simply a political device to attempt to control the world by a few powers.

Use what ever drugs you want and ignore the UN.
I will.

By: BluOx

BluOx — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:47:51 +0000

Control is to tyranny as regulation is to democracy. Therefore Costas supports tyranny with a game of semantics.

By: kaptinemo

kaptinemo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:20:43 +0000

ROE, I can certainly sympathize, but I live for the day when those who’ve made you feel that way are themselves experiencing such depression, as you light up in front of them without penalty. It has to be no different than what happened to the “Drys” immediately after alcohol Prohibition ended.

And given what’s been happening in this country (and what will continue to happen, thanks to the expected next wave of mortgage foreclosures), the time is coming when it will be foremost on a pol’s mind to root out Gub’mint waste for real, as said pol’s constituents will demand as things get tighter. and nothings wastes money faster and more noticeably than the DrugWar…

By: R.O.E.

R.O.E. — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:21:43 +0000

There are days I read and see all the horse shit this world tolerates, we wimper and go to our rooms. It makes me sick. It makes me wanna put a bullet in my brain.

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Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:18:26 +0000

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By: Osborne Perry Anderson

Osborne Perry Anderson — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:07:33 +0000

Would NASCAR nation tolerate this shit? The religious rehabbers define alcohol [drug] abuse as either 2 standard drinks per day… or SIX per week? WTF! I better move back to europe before the rehab round-up!

By: Osborne Perry Anderson

Osborne Perry Anderson — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:48:08 +0000

Whether they call it ‘control’ or ‘prohibition’ is technically irrelevant. The fact is whatever word(s) ‘WE CHOOSE TO USE’ should always be preceded by ‘ILLEGAL’. It’s the ‘ILLEGAL prohibition’ or ‘ILLEGAL control’[of some substances] that leads to the ‘ILLEGAL ARREST & INCARCERATION’ of citizens. They’ll say anything to misdirect or muddy the truth… that the drug war is among the 2 greatest civil rights violations since the religious institution of slavery.

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40 Jahre Scheitern im War on Drugs | Internationale Drogenpolitik — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:04:53 +0000

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By: Nick Zentor

Nick Zentor — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:03:30 +0000

Treatment for drug abuse? I knew a crack-addict who was prostituting herself for crack-money and wasting away at the same time. She became such a public menace that the cops had to tell her to go home or go to jail at all hours of the morning. There is no doubt about it; she was abusing crack and abusing herself as well as others. Ultimately, the cops told her to check into detox or go to jail. I knew she had it bad, so I suggested she go to detox, at least she would get a chance to get off the crack and clean up her act. Detox, I was surprised to learn at that time, was being used not just for alcoholics, but for crack and heroin addicts as well. I doubt there were any cannabis-users there. One thing for sure is; most of the people there abused drugs, abused their own bodies, and abused other people also. Most of those people needed some kind of help, otherwise, they wouldn't have been there. Unless someone abuses drugs and becomes a danger to themselves and other people, they should not require treatment for drug use. My experience has taught me that very few people who use cannabis actually abuse it to the point that they become a danger to themselves and/or others. So all I can say about the system that requires cannabis-users (or abusers) to go to treatment (or jail) is that it is just another misguided abuse of power connected to the misguided war on drugs.

By: kaptinemo

kaptinemo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:42:37 +0000

I just love it when the opposition tries to ‘change its’ spots’. Mr. Costa is attempting the same, lame sleight-of-hand that the prohibs began using when we began calling them ‘prohibitionists’. They tried passing themselves off as ‘preventionists’, but it didn’t take, as just as they could prohibit nothing, they couldn’t prevent anything, either.

Likewise, they certainly cannot ‘control’ drugs when the trade is in the hands of the lawless. How pathetic…