The Scottish Government seeking to make drug possession legal

[scottmaciver]

According to the BBC (Here), the Scottish Government wants to decriminalise drugs for personal use. I would imagine that there would be a reaction against this.

Scotland's progressive SNP government have left us in a terrible state in recent years. They seem to want to outdo so called progressive government's the world over.

 

[JP Wallace]

It's doubtful there has ever been a party in power in the West more driven by ideology and less driven by common sense, prudence and good judgment than the SNP. Absolute disaster morally and ethically.

 

[scottmaciver]

It's doubtful there has ever been a party in power in the West more driven by ideology and less driven by common sense, prudence and good judgment than the SNP. Absolute disaster morally and ethically.

Very true. What a great height Scotland has fallen from in both church and state.

 

[retroGRAD3]

Driven by ideologies, and I would say false religion (leftism), seems to be all the rage these days when it comes to government.

 

[Jerusalem Blade]

2 Thess 2:8,9,10,11,12:

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. [emphasis added]

 

[Eyedoc84]

There is an argument to be made that:
1. Drug use is a sin, but shouldn’t be a crime (except maybe as an aggravating circumstance).
2. Decriminalization will drive prices down and therefore actually solve many of the problems associated with the drug trade (gang violence, human trafficking, arms trafficking, etc.).

Of course, the progressive reasoning for decriminalization I believe comes down to opening the floodgates of deception to the masses, and government regulation and taxation, which actually just makes the government the cartel and keeps open the black market and does nothing w/r/t #2 above.

 

[davejonescue]

There is an argument to be made that:
1. Drug use is a sin, but shouldn’t be a crime (except maybe as an aggravating circumstance).
2. Decriminalization will drive prices down and therefore actually solve many of the problems associated with the drug trade (gang violence, human trafficking, arms trafficking, etc.).

Of course, the progressive reasoning for decriminalization I believe comes down to opening the floodgates of deception to the masses, and government regulation and taxation, which actually just makes the government the cartel and keeps open the black market and does nothing w/r/t #2 above.

Except we dont even see this in America where weed has been legalized. In most, if not all places where weed has been decriminalized, the cartels are actually thriving offering street level access to marijuana at a fraction of the cost of its legal, taxed, and regulated sales. This is because the red-tape to dispense drugs after government involvement, taxing, and regulation, actually increases the prices of the drug to an amount that most would rather still go to the black-market. And as such, all the previous criminal elements that they were hoping to avoid, are still intact because the black-market trade still rakes in so much money.

But, since there is a difference between regulating bodies that cover cultivation and distribution; many of these cartels are able to grow it on American soil, avoiding the need for smuggling, yet distribute it illegally, avoiding the cost of regulated distribution.

Marijuana wars: Violent Mexican drug cartels turn Northern California into ‘The Wild West’

A shadow marijuana market is thriving in California, attracting Mexican cartels and harming people, animals and the environment.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Eyedoc84]

Except we dont even see this in America where weed has been legalized. In most, if not all places where weed has been decriminalized, the cartels are actually thriving offering street level access to marijuana at a fraction of the cost of its legal, taxed, and regulated sales. This is because the red-tape to dispense drugs after government involvement, taxing, and regulation, actually increases the prices of the drug to an amount that most would rather still go to the black-market. And as such, all the previous criminal elements that they were hoping to avoid, are still intact because the black-market trade still rakes in so much money.

But, since there is a difference between regulating bodies that cover cultivation and distribution; many of these cartels are able to grow it on American soil, avoiding the need for smuggling, yet distribute it illegally, avoiding the cost of regulated distribution.

Marijuana wars: Violent Mexican drug cartels turn Northern California into ‘The Wild West’

A shadow marijuana market is thriving in California, attracting Mexican cartels and harming people, animals and the environment.

www.usatoday.com

That’s what I said in my final sentence.