by Chris Black
You can thank Maynard James Keenan for popularizing that Bill Hicks bit—possibly the worst bit in Bill’s mostly-funny repertoire—if it were really true that drugs make you “more creative,” then every burnout loser I’ve ever met would be going RIAA platinum, but unfortunately for them it’s not true at all.
“Drugs spark creativity” is a cope for those same losers—an explanation for why they aren’t Roger Waters or John Lennon or Frank Zappa or whoever their personal superstar hero is—it’s a way of hand waving away the fact that some people are more talented and charismatic than others.
Fortunately, there are all the good side effects of legalization/decriminalization of marijuana. Crime is way down, the streets are safer because the drivers are high rather than drunk, etc., etc.
Oh, wait, that didn’t happen. – @Steve_Sailer t.co/rjhnMRNmK7
— VDARE (@vdare) February 7, 2023
Talk to normies about cannabis legalization and suddenly everyone transforms into a libertarian.
“Prohibition doesn’t work!”
Looks like legalization doesn’t “work” either.
The only real difference is that there are now more people walking around with a self-imposed cognitive handicap—just what Amerika needed.
You shouldn’t go to prison for simple possession or for having an addiction problem, but that’s not really a thing that happens anyway.
Almost everyone who goes down “for drugs” either had an extensive criminal record or was guilty of some other, more serious crime in tandem with the drugs.
“Going to prison for a joint” is one of those leftist mythologies that does a lot of heavy lifting to fuel their sense of righteous indignation, but has virtually no basis in reality.
As compared to homicide, rape, things of that nature, drug trafficking and dealing is obviously way worse, because it engenders and incentivizes pretty much all other forms of crime.
It degenerates the social fabric in a very real, measurable way. You get a community hooked on meth or crack and that community is now destroyed. Fathers who would otherwise be passable providers become totally worthless and their families fall apart around them.
I understand why people have such a problem with petty drug enforcement—it’s totally unproductive and doesn’t attack the sources of the problem at all—there’s no reason why drug dealers shouldn’t just be rounded up and executed, including pharma industry parasites.
The Sackler family should have had all of their assets confiscated, every red cent to any of their names.
The other problem is the general atmosphere of modern pointlessness, which is way bigger than any single policy can solve. But I can tell you one thing, readily-available drugs that make you fine with stagnating and going nowhere in life?
Definitely not doing anyone any favors.
This country needs the fear of God put back into it.
Drug dealers are the best case I can think of for reforming and expediting the death penalty. Criminals aren’t scared of sitting on death row for 25 years.
For many of them that’s not much different from a life sentence.
It needs to be quick.
Give them a couple of appeals, to be resolved no more than one year after conviction.
When their appeals fail, take them out behind the court house and shoot them.