POLICY: End the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”

Friday, February 7, 2025

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2025/02/06/bill-proposed-in-illinois-could-allow-18-year-olds-to-drink-alcohol/

Bill Proposed in Illinois Could Allow 18-Year-Olds to Drink Alcohol

Amy Furr6 Feb 202577

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A bill up for consideration in the Illinois General Assembly would change the state’s legal drinking age.

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Sorry but did we learn NOTHING from Prohibition?

Is it because DRUG PROHIBITION has worked so well?

Can’t we see what Portugal has done?

Argh!

No one can stop someone from putting in their body what they want.  It’s call free will.  Human beings are as resourceful as any rat or roach.

Argh!

Could we try abandoning an approach that is an OBVIOUS failure and try a true free market approach?

Imagine how many drug addicts would survive if they could walk in any pharmacy and buy their drug of choice in a sterile accurately measured does of a know potency?  Like going into a Marijuana Dispensary today.  I’m sure that if Walmart, Walgreens, or CVS was in charge, the whole process would be safe and that they would offer information about rehab with every “prescription”,  Maybe even require a buyer to acknowledge that they were given the information.  And, I bet prices would be cheaper than aspirin!  

Of course, we would have the problem of out-of-work drug gangs and what does a Drug Kingpin do when he has to compete with Walmart?

If short, I think we should admit defeat in the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” and seek a different strategy.

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INSPIRATIONAL: “Archimedes” is a metaphor for the unsolvable problem of how to avoid an unavoidable war

Friday, February 7, 2025

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09742MWY9/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

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The Great War of Archimedes

Pre-WWII, the Japanese Navy commissioned the creation of impressive “supership” Yamato, strongly opposed by a top official insisting on more strategic and battle-ready warships. After being ignored without cause, Admiral Yamamoto recruits a math genius to help uncover what he soon suspects is a massive 

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Customer Review

    B.A. Bengard

    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie of the Philosophy of Japan & Humanity

    Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2024

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    Not usually a fan of historical fiction, but this Japanese made movie incorporates mixtures of reality, ideology and humanity. Knowing the history of the Pacific war, the culture mindset of imperial Japan and the more ancient ideas behind bushido and the engineering genius of the Yamato, is mixed with fictional characters who have a deeper realization of the effect of war of humanity, especially as it pertains to Japanese cultural mindset. It’s NOT a war movie, but “Archimedes” is a metaphor for the unsolvable problem of how to avoid an unavoidable war. 

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It is really captivating in the story.  Not sure how real it is but Pearl Harbor was a fact.  And regardless of what the beliefs of the key players really were, they were powerless to stop it.

Kind of like the vets today with the USA involving us in all sorts of “foreign adventures”, when in every vet’s heart, mind, and soul, we know how wrong this is.

Dona Nobis Pacem

And aren’t today’s carriers like the WWII battleships, obsolete. Vulnerable to cheap drones and hypersonic missles Yet the USA keeps building them.

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