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Santo Domingo.- United States’ decades-long war on drugs avoid the warlike strategies within its territory and has managed not to fill its jails with consumers, and treats them as patients instead.
As more senior officials in the region begin to suggest the legalization of drug consumption, National Drugs Council president (CND) Mabel Feliz now also favors it, after rejecting the notion at the start of the year.
Interviewed by newspaper El Dia, the official said the legalization of consumption should to together with the treatment of addicts as patients to regenerate them. She calls the legalization of marijuana in several states, an implicit tolerance to carry portions of some types of drugs in the streets only for consumption.
And while in countries including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay already have legislation to legalize drug consumption and deal with it as a public health problem, Dominican Republic still punishes it with jail terms.
Feliz favors a revamp of Law 55-88 on drugs, because in her view it doesn’t treat drug consumers as patients and conceived to penalize narcotics trafficking. She said the CND and Public Health Ministry must work jointly to create chemical detoxification units to treat chronic addicts.
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Even if you cannot stand the thought of people using drugs, there is absolutely nothing you, or any government, can do to stop them. We have spent 40 years and trillions of dollars on this dangerous farce. Practically everybody is now aware that Prohibition will not suddenly and miraculously start showing different results.
Maybe you're a police officer, a prison guard or a local politician. Possibly you're scared of losing employment, overtime-pay, the many kick-backs and those regular fat bribes. But what good will any of that do you once our society has followed Mexico over the dystopian abyss of dismembered bodies, vats of acid and marauding thugs carrying gold-plated AK-47s with leopard-skinned gunstocks?
Kindly allow us to forgo the next level of your sycophantic prohibition-engendered mayhem.
Prohibition Prevents Regulation : Legalize, Regulate and Tax!
JUNE 2, 2011, 2:17 P.M. ET
Panel Calls War on Drugs a Failure
Mr. Branson, speaking at the news conference, highlighted the drug wars' high cost.
"It's estimated that over one trillion have been spent on fighting this unwinnable battle," Mr. Branson said, according to the AP. "The irony is that a regulated market — one that is tightly controlled, one that would offer support not prison to those with drug problems — would cost tax payers much less money."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1....2304563104576359913339364414.html
"problem is --- the pot in the DR scks!"
That's because it's not grown properly. One needs to care for it until it reaches maturity and flowers.
Afterwards, it has to be hung upside down,(like tobacco), and let dry gradually.
The fun part is to separate stems and seeds from leaves then expertly rolled and enjoyed.
Generals, police, mafia, politicians, and the ruling elite run the coke trade in the country. They don't care about pot, as the money is in coke.