Ombient said:
I'm all for non-physiologically addictive drugs being legalized and the physiologically addictive ones (methamphetamine,heroin,cocaine) being regulated by government, but still available to those that make the choice to use those said substances.
I got clean from coke over 20 years ago. My daughter died, and 9 other friends, between Feb & November of 2006, my father's cancer recurred, and I was in the middle of moving, so I lost my stability to properly cope with those traumas and recover. The end result is I lost my sobriety for 14 months.
It's ridiculous to say that "Well, I'm only interested in letting people use drugs they can't become addicted to". Coke isn't physically addicting. There's no withdrawal during detox.
Due to injuries I sustained in an assault 7& 1/2 years ago, I use two 60mg Oxycodone IR tablets every 6 hours. I probably have what doctors call a "medically necessary chemical dependency", and I notice that I just don't feel good if I go 36 to 48 hrs without a dose. I get good pain relief, but no high, inspite of a dose that would knock most people on their asses.
I can guarantee I'm not addicted to coke. I have an active allergy to pot, but I CAN use hashish, I can't drink beer, my doctors prescribe Ritalin, Provigil or Benzedrine for a sleep disorder, but I'm not addicted to that crap, either.
Drugs, ALL DRUGS could be sold through various outlets. I worked out a kind of table, a couple of years ago
IF drugs are sold, they should be sold to people over 21, just like alcohol. The precedent has been set, why screw with it. Legalize drugs FIRST, attack the minimum age of use LATER!
Create a certification class, and issue a certification, attached to the ddrivers license and ID cards, to show the card-holder has been educated about the drug and it's effects.
Drugs like Pot could be sold with a special license, made available with the fewest strings attached of all the drugs. Call it a class 4 license.
A class 3 license could be for things like mushrooms, & perhaps some of the enthiogens, but I don't know much about them. I don't know much about most enthiogens, but I don't want some stupid newby using Ayhuesca and walking into traffic, cuz he's so fouled-up he doesn't know what he's doing.
A Class 2 license could be things like LSD, and the entheogens that were too heavy-duty to be class 3.
Class 1 drugs would be your opiates, cocaine, and amphetamines.
As for licensing who sells them, do it like a liquor license. Most places could sell pot, without much licensing problem. Selling the class 3,2, & 1 drugs would require stricter licensing, higher licensing fees and stricter enforcement.
Any dispensary caught without the proper licenses for the drugs on it's shelves gets a stiff fine and a license suspended for let's say a month. Further violations could result in higher fines and revocation of license.
Pharmaceutical drugs require papers of pedigree. Those papers document where the drug originated, and every handler who posses & transfers the drug, on it's way to your local pharmacy. DEMAND that recretional drugs provide the same kind of pedigree. If someone CAN'T provide that pedigree, then it should be a violation of the license agreement for the dispensary to buy that drug, or that quantity, from the supplier, and if dispensaries can't provide appropriate pedigrees, then fine the Hell out of them, suspend their licenses, & revoke them if necessary.
Continue with the laws that make it unlawful to take one drug and mix it around and cook it down, until it gets strong enough for your tastes. This is bootlegging, and we already have laws to deal with this. Re-write them to include recreational drugs. Fine anyone you catch doing it, cuz if the government does this right, then we don't need to do that anyway. Bootlegging would then become the only major street crime, involving drugs, at that point.
Tax the drugs, put the money into social services, rehab, education, enforcement and, put anything left-over into the general budget.
Charge for the various licenses. If a vendor can qualify for the Class 1 license, and the class 4 license they should get those. Special education should be in place for vendors selling enthiogens and hallucinatory drugs., In general ALL vendors need a class like that.
Let's say a Class 1 license is $10,000.00 and you must pass a background check. A Class 2 License is $10,000.00 plus a background check. A Class 3 & 4 license could be $5,000.00 plus a background check.
Charge for the background check
Charge for the classes vendors must take, to make them aware of the regulations you must obey and the consequences for NOT obeying.
Charge for the license
Charge people for the certification class to get a card certifying they know what they are doing when they buy and get high with whichever class of drugs they use.
Make the certification card part of the drivers license or state ID card, fine anyone who posses drugs without their certification card.
Fine dispensaries who don't swipe the cards of every single person who purchases drugs in their store.
Charge taxes on the drugs themselves, in whatever way they already tax the movement of pharmaceuticals.
Make selling any drug illegal, unless you are licensed, punishable by fine, jail, community service, whatever.
Make "shoulder tapping" illegal. Precedent carries over from alcohol. Fines, jail time,community service, (You know the schtick)
Providing drugs to minors, bootlegging, selling to someone without the proper certificate, selling if YOU aren't properly certified or providing drugs for a shoulder tapper become felonies, with heavy duty fines, jail time & community service. The exception to this rule is if you are reimbursing someone.
Charge anyone who sells drugs without a license of bootlegging, tax evasion, fraud, or whatever they can possibly be charged with, to discourage street sales.
It's actually illegal to sell tobacco and alcohol without special licenses, so people who sell packs of smokes on the street are already in violation of the law. Enlarge the law to encompass the unlicensed sale of recreational drugs by persons on the street.
IN FACT, if someone becomes an EXTREME addict, this provides a way to help them NOT use, cuz now you can cut them off from purchasing drugs by REQUIRING the vendor swipe every ID card that comes in, to show what level drugs you are allowed to buy. IF someone is in a drug treatment program, or has had arrests for DUI or committing acts of violence on drugs, or whatever, the dispensary agent is advised by the card that he CANNOT legally sell to this person! But this shouldn't just happen unless the person has really bad, nasty, behavior problems with their roots in addiction.
In fact, if you go to the psych ward you have to have a special hearing in order to buy a fire-arm. Use that same principal of a special hearing and allow the addict his day in court, with his attorney, to plead the case that he SHOULDN'T have his certifications revoked!
Allow certifications to expire, and have each person take a refresher course.
For those of you who don't want the government in your business, even if they DO legalize drugs on this kind of scale, DREAM ON!
IF you want legalized drugs the government is going to want some assurances that those drugs are transferred, possessed, stored, sold and used in a way that will profit the government and pay for the ills of society when the inevitable addict arises.\, AND that they have a way to haul YOUR ass out of the fire, if you start making yourself sick on them!
The government will want a penalty for every aspect of sales, possession and usage that could be abused, and they will want to track usage. The government might reserve the right to restrict the quantity you may buy during a discrete window of time, for example: you may only purchase half a pound of dry magic mushrooms at a time, or in a week, or month, or whatever, or 80 ounces fresh/un-dried weight.
So, these are some of the compromises we will probably have to make, that is if we WANT the drugs to be legal.
Can anyone think of anything I missed? Any way to make this plan better?
If you want the drugs you have to deal with the government and make compromises.
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