The Angry Junkies
21-09-2004, 02:39
Right to Pursue Happiness
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.
Category: Recreational Drug Use Decision: Promote Proposed by: The Angry Junkies
Description: It is time the world considered an alternative stance to the drug problems that have been plaguing the world. I propose that the UN encourage either the government or corporations of nations to market narcotics to informed adults who wish to use their bodies as they see fit. Morally it is no business of the UN to tell informed adults what is or is not good for them, such an ideal would be fascist.
Let us weigh the benefits of this proposal
#1 It will provide a stimulus to the economy at the expense of the black market, allowing a country to better itself in any way it sees fit.
#2 It would user in a new era of civil rights, declaring that a person's body is their own. So long as they do not endanger or interfere with the livelyhood of others, their human freedoms over their body are a part of their inalienable rights.
#3 The shift from a black market would become taxable, and these taxes could go to promote awareness and education, as well as to fund other public works.
#4 It would hamstring rouge orginizations who wish to gain power through ill attained wealth, and cripple their ability to raise funds at the expense of the worlds citizens.
#5 By acknowledging the problem as opposed to punishing it, we can promote safer drug use and enforce quality control in order to protect the consumers.
Some examples that promote this logic throughout history:
During the period of abolition, speakeasys and the black market of alcohol flourished, and a great deal of capitcal was flooded into the hands of lawbreakers. Many of these criminals used this added funding and power to commit further crimes and do more damage than they previously would have been able to.
In terms of teaching sex education, when taught abstinance children run into far more problems than when they are taught to practice safe sex. Telling children simply to say "no" leaves them completely unprepared and uneducated when they do say "yes." It is impossible to teach an entire society to conform to such an idea, and in doing so we put all of our stock in a inevitably fallable plan.
Throughout history the attempts to legislate the demand for drugs and alcohol has failed. Even the death penalty has had no effect in culling this tide. It is in the worlds best interest to eliminate this black market, and to take over it so that it can be made as ethical and humanitarian as possible.
Make no mistake, our objective is to phase out unsafe drug use. It simply seems that the strongest action we can take is to grab hold of this drug epidemic and bring it to light. There is no better way to control narcotics than to handle the distrubution and use ourselves.
Who else would we rather leave this up to?
Thoughts ideas?
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.
Category: Recreational Drug Use Decision: Promote Proposed by: The Angry Junkies
Description: It is time the world considered an alternative stance to the drug problems that have been plaguing the world. I propose that the UN encourage either the government or corporations of nations to market narcotics to informed adults who wish to use their bodies as they see fit. Morally it is no business of the UN to tell informed adults what is or is not good for them, such an ideal would be fascist.
Let us weigh the benefits of this proposal
#1 It will provide a stimulus to the economy at the expense of the black market, allowing a country to better itself in any way it sees fit.
#2 It would user in a new era of civil rights, declaring that a person's body is their own. So long as they do not endanger or interfere with the livelyhood of others, their human freedoms over their body are a part of their inalienable rights.
#3 The shift from a black market would become taxable, and these taxes could go to promote awareness and education, as well as to fund other public works.
#4 It would hamstring rouge orginizations who wish to gain power through ill attained wealth, and cripple their ability to raise funds at the expense of the worlds citizens.
#5 By acknowledging the problem as opposed to punishing it, we can promote safer drug use and enforce quality control in order to protect the consumers.
Some examples that promote this logic throughout history:
During the period of abolition, speakeasys and the black market of alcohol flourished, and a great deal of capitcal was flooded into the hands of lawbreakers. Many of these criminals used this added funding and power to commit further crimes and do more damage than they previously would have been able to.
In terms of teaching sex education, when taught abstinance children run into far more problems than when they are taught to practice safe sex. Telling children simply to say "no" leaves them completely unprepared and uneducated when they do say "yes." It is impossible to teach an entire society to conform to such an idea, and in doing so we put all of our stock in a inevitably fallable plan.
Throughout history the attempts to legislate the demand for drugs and alcohol has failed. Even the death penalty has had no effect in culling this tide. It is in the worlds best interest to eliminate this black market, and to take over it so that it can be made as ethical and humanitarian as possible.
Make no mistake, our objective is to phase out unsafe drug use. It simply seems that the strongest action we can take is to grab hold of this drug epidemic and bring it to light. There is no better way to control narcotics than to handle the distrubution and use ourselves.
Who else would we rather leave this up to?
Thoughts ideas?