Updated: 06/2010

DRUGS AND CRIME

INTRODUCTION

This is an honest look at the major problem of hard drugs and the crime related to the use of these drugs in the United States. I have studied and seek here to expose the mindset that brings the trauma of the drug problem into every home in this country. I am offering us a solution, which is the first clear, rational, and down-to-earth explanation presented to us in recent years. (Written 1989)

I will explain why these drugs are such a strong stimulus to people and offer a plan to combat the spread of drug related problems and show how to quickly reduce the crime associated with these hard drugs.

Those who have children or spouses trapped in the vicious cycle of drugs will wish to read this information as will those who wish to do something about the problem in their own communities and states.

I do not claim it will be easy. But this plan does show how it can be and will be successful. It will bring social and financial relief to this country. It will also bring tax relief to all. This plan will be opposed by those who are getting rich (directly and indirectly) off of the drug trade. Many of these social parasites living off of the profits of the drug trade are politicians, bankers, ministers and your local business men. Those who think "compromise" is a dirty word will also oppose it.

Many people will have to change their minds about how to deal with these hard drug problems if this solution is to have any impact on crime and on the average citizen of this country. The facts presented here will open the eyes of many who have only thought about the problem in light of the propaganda forced on them by those people who have a vested interest in the drug problem. And No One has a greater vested interest in the hard drug trade than those who make their living fighting the Drug War (including our government and our religions).

As I will point out, the alternative to this solution is and will be continued and accelerating disaster and chaos. By pursuing more of the same present policy of throwing billions of dollars at the drug problem, we end up playing into the hands of both the criminals and the politicians. We must take our own action.

SO LET US EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP OF DRUGS AND CRIME

Possibly few things concern Americans more today than crime. There are crimes against one's person and crimes against one's property. There are crimes against one's children and crimes against one's group or society. Then there are crimes against our future. Maybe the worse crimes of all are those that are legal but which are highly immoral and that destroy our future and that of our children and grand children.

Crimes are committed by the lowest elements of our society and by the highest strata of our society. The grungy guy who takes your car, your money or your property is the social scapegoat for our concept of crime. But, there are other criminals who hurt us far worse than the loss of a car or some money. There are criminals in this country who dress in suits, go to church on Sunday, run for elective office (and win), speak high sounding phrases in front of gullible listeners and they call themselves "good" and "Godly." Please deliver us from these good, godly predators! We cannot stand much more of it. These "good" people are stealing our freedoms, our future and our pursuit of happiness. And worst of all, they are stealing our HOPE for our future and that of our kids.

To study crime, one must separate the two major aspects of criminal activity and study them separately. The crimes at the low end of the social ladder we will call common crime. The crime at the upper end of society we will call white-collar crime. We are forced to call some of these people, legal criminals, because they make and lobby for "laws," which they and their backers want passed. These "laws" that bring personal benefits to their particular group, friends or business, also brings hardship and frustration to the rest of us. You and I must follow and obey these "laws" in order that the pockets of their backers may be lined with money (mine and yours).

If you talk to any law enforcement agent, you will ultimately ask the question, "What causes most of the common crime in Atlanta (or New York, Chicago, Los Angles, Dallas or your city)." The answer will be DRUGS. If you ask, what percent is caused by drugs, you will receive answers ranging from seventy-five percent up to eighty-five or so percent.

What makes these drugs such a criminal stimulus?

Let's do some supposing. Suppose a whole pound of cocaine cost the same price as a pound of sugar does today. Let us further suppose, a pound of sugar cost what a pound of cocaine cost today. What would the criminal element be selling on the street corner? Sugar or cocaine? How long would it be before sugar factories were being built (and raided and blown up)? How long before kids were being given little packets of sugar, free or very cheap? How long before there would be sugar parties among the rich?

How long would it be before sugar was classified as illegal by most states? How long would it be before sugar was sold by prescription? How long would it be before big money was being invested in sugar plantations in South America by banks, various investment funds and individuals with lots of money? How long would it be before sugar wars broke out in our cities and overseas? How long would it be before law enforcement agents would say, "Sugar causes seventy-five percent of the crime in our cities?

The answer to these questions is, NOT LONG!

The Clear Thinker says, "If you take the money out of drugs, you take seventy-five percent of the crime out of our country side and out of our cities." Think about it!

Most people will say, "All right! Let's do it! How do we start?"

Before answering the question "How can we do it?" we need to dig a little deeper into the problem and the mind set that causes the problem.

What, for instance, makes one drug illegal and one legal? That is done by the magic wave of a ballpoint pen. A few signatures on a piece of paper and lo and behold, a drug is illegal. By the stroke of a pen, a legal business becomes a criminal business. Something that cost a dollar before the stroke of that pen, now becomes worth two hundred dollars after the stroke of that pen. There are tens of thousands of people who just love the stroke of that ballpoint pen. It means billions in their collective pockets. Those who sell it and those who fight it are delighted!

Now, we must ask ourselves, who lobbied to make the commodity illegal? Who is going to benefit? Look at the drug alcohol for a moment. Alcohol was legal in this country, then, it was illegal. Then, it was legal again. Why the confusion? Did alcohol change its spots?

First, there are those in our society who Believe they have a revelation from the Almighty God that instructs them that they are to be the moral and ethical conscious of this nation and indeed of the world. They believe they have a Divine insight, a Divine moral code, and a Divine responsibility, which makes them the judge, jury and executioner of the actions, activities and thoughts of all mankind.

Second, because these people are unable to see the wrong and harm, which THEY do to society, they hunt for an enemy outside of themselves. Thus, in the past, they selected "John Barley Corn" (alcohol) as their enemy.

Third, they divided up the world into two parts, God's side and the Devil's side, the good side and the bad side, the right side and the wrong side.

Fourth, anyone who disagrees with them is on the Devil's side, the bad side and the wrong side.

Thus, through out history, these same people who gave us a flat earth, the dark ages and the Inquisition have sought to prevail by intimidation, persecution, passing and enforcing immoral and unjust laws, belittling and berating their selected enemies and putting pressure on the governments of the world to force their private religious will and inhumane ethics on the rest of us.

So, in the early nineteen hundreds, they selected alcohol as the enemy. Who were their allies in their efforts to make alcohol illegal? Every criminal organization in the United States made donations, lobbied and advertised for their cause. These criminals lobbied and worked with the believers. Anyone who had money invested in whisky distilleries in Canada, Cuba or Europe, joined in. Bootleggers, (or those who wanted to be) joined in. The criminals even furnished free protection to the women crusaders and these criminals became their police force to protect these prohibitionist from those who opposed prohibition. As they paraded and spoke, they were surrounded and protected by volunteers from the businessmen and criminals who delighted in their progress.

Guess who also poured millions and millions of dollars into the effort, THE DRUG COMPANIES! Surprised? They still do. You see the drug companies cannot patent alcohol (or marijuana). Instead, they produce very, very expensive drugs that are supposed to do a little bit of what alcohol (or marijuana) will do. These natural products only cost a few dollars even at the present inflated prices. So, the big drug companies joined the believers and the criminals (if there is any difference). Big drug companies helped to lobby and fight for making alcohol and later, marijuana illegal. Soon, prohibition passed and the USA was "SAVED" from alcohol.

Believers rejoiced. Drug companies rejoiced. Bankers rejoiced. Politicians rejoiced. Foreign brewers rejoiced. Investors rejoiced. Law enforcement rejoiced. Criminals rejoiced and they began dividing up the United States into districts and charging a franchise fee for those districts. To do what? To sell now illegal whisky!

WHAT HAPPENED?

First, millions and millions of taxpayer dollars had to be collected and spent by the Federal government, the state and local governments to enforce this new "law." This new "law" gave thousands of people employment. But do not forget, under this law, hundreds of people died, went blind or suffered from alcohol poisoning by drinking "rot gut whiskey." Thousand of people who just wanted a drink (which they used to get legally) were jailed. Hundreds were gunned down in the local streets and businesses, and many of them were innocent bystanders. Citizens became afraid to walk the streets of their towns at night. Where only a few bars existed before prohibition, new secret bars and clubs opened by the thousands all over this country. Crime went crazy! People bought locks for their doors and bars for their windows. Criminals and their friends became fantastically RICH! Banks and investment houses did a booming business.

Does any of this sound familiar to you?

The Capones, Dillingers, Cohens, Kennedys, Morans, (and many other famous family names), along with law enforcement officers, little and big crooks, all got very wealthy selling whisky at bloated prices. Territorial wars broke out. Criminals fought other criminals in the streets of the USA. Law enforcement broke down as the criminals could pay them in a month what they would normally make in a year. Law enforcement lost pride in itself. Law enforcement lost its effectiveness and worst of all, the enforcement agents of this "law" lost the respect of the citizens of this country. Soon state and federal senators and representatives were on the take, along with policemen, judges, lawyers and politicians. Before long, the criminals had as much power, or more, than the politician or police. More millions of dollars had to be spent by state and federal governments. The cost to the taxpayer was enormous.

Making alcohol illegal caused more deaths PER YEAR than legal alcohol had ever caused in all the previous fifty-five years. Home and society were disrupted. Crime grew powerful, wealthy and greedy. The believers and the politicians (with their prohibition laws) had unleashed a monster upon us. Such a situation is called, "throwing the baby out with the bath water."

Finally, Clear Thinking prevailed. Prohibition was repealed and the USA tried to return to the "good old days." But, we could not return. The damage was done. The tree was bent crooked, and crooked it stayed. Crime had gotten used to paying off its supporters, and the supporters had gotten used to BEING paid. Both the criminals and the crime fighters immediately needed some new form of prohibition (so they didn't lose their incomes).

Using their new power and wealth, crime entered big legitimate business and politics. The sons and daughters of the criminals became business and political powers in this nation. They were bank rolled by their families and other criminal elements. They ran for senate seats and won. They ran for state and federal representatives and won. They had no apologies for telling lies, spreading false rumors and immorally tricking their less well financed opponents. They even ran their man for president. Crime money talks!

Immediately upon repeal of prohibition on alcohol, the crime bosses and politicians began to describe the evils of recreational drugs. It made no difference whether these drugs were harmful, helpful or neutral. The concept was taken up by the believers. Soon the criminal element was gleefully convincing politicians and preachers to get certain drugs made or kept illegal. They lobbied and convinced believers to write editorials, preach sermons and work to make and or keep certain drugs illegal.

It is a proven fact that common crime in the United States was petty and non-threatening before the prohibition on alcohol. People didn't even lock their doors. After the prohibition was lifted, crime was powerful and political, reaching its tendrils and tentacles into politics, business, banking, stocks, manufacturing, bonds, law enforcement, commerce, transportation, unions, publishing, international trade, insurance, commodities, farming, mining, pornography, prostitution, gambling, garbage collection, restaurants, food distribution, radio, TV, entertainment and every other legitimate and illegitimate business. Even honest people before prohibition, were forced into various elements of crime because of prohibition. Crime expansion grew like kudzu in South Georgia. People began to install locks and started locking their doors and watching their kids.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY NOW?

"What is wrong now," happened between 1919 and 1934 - PROHIBITION! Making alcohol illegal produced crime that grew and exists today! The tree was bent and today we find ourselves and our nation crooked indeed. But I have some hope for us! Stay with me!

It was pointed out by the finally semi legitimate crime bosses that the Federal government now had a very strong and usable Federal force built up to enforce the prohibition of alcohol. They argued, if certain drugs were made or kept illegal, the "Feds" had an organization all ready in the field to enforce a "NEW PROHIBITION LAW." If some drugs were not made or kept illegal, then the Fed force would have to be disbanded and the government would lose millions of taxpayer dollars - and jobs. They pointed out that the politicians could use this new cause for votes and everyone would PROFIT from making certain drugs illegal. Besides, drugs made people crazy and the government needed to protect the citizens from going crazy. Didn't it?

They didn't mention that THEY would make billions. Nor, did they mention that along with this NEW prohibition on drugs would come new crimes unknown before. They didn't mention the hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars it would cost the federal government (us). They didn't mention the thousands and thousands of innocent people who would lose their jobs, their families, their money and their lives. They didn't mention the FEARS that would ride our streets, our homes, our schools and our businesses. That would be BAD ADVERTISING. Crime and politics (if there is a difference) always tries to hide the true facts of their plans and policies from the public.

The greatest most profitable agriculture product in the USA from the 1700’s until the 1920’s was hemp (marijuana). Farmers were encouraged to grow larger and larger acreage of hemp. Then oil discovered it could produce the same, though inferior, products (expensively) that hemp was producing (cheaply). Paper Barons bought hundreds of thousands of acres of pine trees and built pulp wood plants that pollute the environment, so they could oust the cheaper, better, less polluting hemp paper. These paper barons spent millions of dollars to propagandize the American people and to fight to make hemp (marijuana) illegal.

They secretly got the preachers, believers and politicians to start partitions, preach sermons, write editorials and in general fan crime's tiny prohibition spark until it finally became an all-consuming flame. Then they Sneaked it through Congress. One honest congressman stood in resignation and said, “The Lies have it.”

AND THEY DID IT!

The politicians succumbed to the endorsements, inducements and propaganda. Certain drugs were not only made or kept illegal, but a NEW enforcement branch was added to the federal agencies already in existence. And the taxpayer had to pay and pay and pay some more for this new extravagant expense.

The gist of the matter is this. Prohibition produces untold wealth for the criminal element, for those who work with the criminal element and for those who live off of the criminal element. And it does the same for those who FIGHT the criminal element. For the average citizen, prohibition produces fear, loss of innocent life, loss of their children, loss of money, loss of their self-respect and loss of respect for our government and law enforcement. In addition to that, prohibition produces honest patriotic rebels. These rebels are jailed, called ungodly, un-American, traitors and have the IRS and sometimes the FBI or CIA sicked on them.

In the last few years, law enforcement agencies have stumbled upon millions and millions of dollars packed in cardboard boxes in warehouses and other places. Some of this money has even gotten moldy and rats have gnawed into it. Some has gotten wet, stuck together or rotted. The problem with dealing in drugs is, it produces so much cash money that the money itself becomes a physical problem.

People who laundry crime money are given as much as HALF of the money in order to make the other half usable as legitimate business profits. The reason for this is that so many people have to be paid off to either look the other way or to aid the transfers. Banks are guilty. Insurance companies are guilty. Import and export businesses are guilty. The tentacles of crime money reach everywhere.

Where does this money come from? It comes from kids who steal in order to buy one dollar’s worth of drugs for which they must pay two hundred dollars. It comes from the grocery money, the rent money, the shoe money, the car money, the education money and the insurance money. It comes from the tills of businesses whose employees steal, embezzle and reroute the money to their own pockets, then it goes into the drug dealer’s pocket. It comes from dishonest business practices that take money for service or products that are useless, falsely advertised or never delivered. It comes from tax money and church money. It comes from electronic items stolen from your home and mine. And worst of all, it comes from the poor.

This immoral drug prohibition has corrupted millions of people, thousands of businessmen, and hundreds of politicians, judges, lawyers, law enforcement personnel and we could go on for pages.

Will the criminal element and the misguided religious believers unite in our society to make and keep certain drugs illegal? YOU BET! In a New York minute!

One of the biggest problems stemming from the prohibitions of the past and present is that the Morals of the crime bosses, before long, become the morals of business and government. These morals (or lack of them) soon become the morals even of the citizens of this country who, seeing other people get away with it, decide they will play the game. They stage injuries so, they sue. THEY can now get something for nothing. Thus, we have the proliferation of lawyers, legal suits in court, slander suits, injury suits, pain and suffering suits and so forth. ALL of these things basically stem from the mindset of the criminal. They see an opportunity to get SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. And WE put up with it!

Did you ever really study the fine print in warranties, contracts and such? It is almost as though anything you do saves the issuer of the fine print from any obligation what so ever to YOU, but nothing that you do voids the contract or your obligation to them. This is the mindset of business today. Before Prohibition there was some trust between the buyer and seller. Big transactions were often concluded with a handshake. People considered their word as their bond. Since prohibition, there is none of that. Fine print is the criminal mind at work.

The illegality of certain drugs cost the taxpayers billions and billions of dollars each year. And the cost is going up. Too many greedy hands are out. The amount of money paid out by the federal government each year on drug enforcement is absolutely and unbelievably STAGGERING. There are court cost, jail cost, undercover operations, surveillance, stings, troops, agents and equipment, some sent to foreign lands, boats and airplanes, hospital treatment, associated crime including petty crime, and possibly WAR in the drug supplying countries, and hundreds of other related costs.

Today we face a take over of the drug trade by Mexico. They set up large, powerful and profitable organizations in our big cities that kill, intimidate and induce our state and federal officials to perform and inform for them. These good Catholic people hire gangs to enforce their will on the American people. You and I are going to put a stop to this with our plan.

The believers, the criminals and the government have forced you and me to believe that the only way to do away with the drug crimes is to buy more policemen, more airplanes, more boats, more detection equipment, and in general throw more money at the problem. If you don't agree with the government, you are a closet druggy, un-American, ungodly and worthy of being spied on to see why you don't agree with the "good" efforts of the government. They spy on you. They also want to know if you are paying your fair share of taxes (which they keep raising). The BELIEVERS and the CRIMINALS have locked up our future and are destroying our present.

These crime costs do not include the individual losses to crime, increased insurance cost, increased taxes, loss of life, bank failures, embezzlements, medical care inflation, stock market frauds and a multitude of other hidden costs.

One of the worst costs to the American people is the cost of FEAR! The police even fear walking the streets of this nation after dark. If the police fear the crime element after dark, what is to be said for the average citizen? Yes! America fears not only the night, we also fear the daytime. Why should we put up with this terror? Why do people fear the criminal elements even in the supposed safety of their own homes? Because petty crime and white collar crime in this country is fueled by the HIGH COST OF DRUGS! This crime, and the fear of it, reaches every home in the USA one way or another. And now they want to prohibit our only home defense and protection by taking our dogs and our guns away from us. Can you say, "TYRANNY?"

Not only are the citizens of this country afraid of the criminal element, we are now afraid of OUR OWN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. Innocent people have their doors kicked out and law enforcement agents swarm into their homes with swat teams IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT. Some innocent people have been murdered by our law enforcement agencies. The drug laws are now used to intimidate decent citizens and many non-drug users have had law enforcement actually PLANT drugs in their homes so they could be arrested. You see they were vocal against some local politician, agency or authority, or someone wanted to steal their property.

Any drug addict will tell you, it doesn't matter what he has to do to get the money for the drugs. He will get it legally, illegally or any other way, just so long as he gets the money to get the drugs. Some have even sold their own children (or stolen and sold other people’s children or pets) to get the money to get the drugs.

Another item to remember is this. Most drug addicts hate their dependency on drugs. But, they cannot afford the treatment necessary. They must fear the social stigma (for themselves, their jobs and their families). They also fear criminal prosecution if they seek the treatment.

Absolutely nothing good can be truthfully said about making any drug illegal without counting hundreds of reasons why ALL drugs should be legal.

Now, CONTROL of a drug is absolutely necessary when making a drug legal. Many people either misunderstand or misrepresent the concept of making a drug legal. Some think that means one can go into a grocery store and buy a hard drug as one would buy a bottle of beer, a carton of cigarettes or a bottle of aspirin. Up until 1919, a child could walk into a drugstore and buy cocaine cough drops or codeine medicines. Where was their drug problem? They had none because drugs were legal and no more profitable than selling dog food. However, this freedom will never happen again and probably never should happen.

In my opinion, (which I have researched) here is what needs to be done. First, drugs used for so called recreational purposes must be divided into groups according to their addictedness, their danger to health, their danger to society, and their value for purposes other than recreation. I am not a chemist, doctor or scientist, so my knowledge is general and relates only to what can be found out from general research and medical publications on the various drugs, law enforcement, cost and related subjects. I am not a user of these drugs. But, I have long since learned how to determine the difference between reading facts and reading propaganda put out by those who are in favor of something, or against something.

If I were dividing the drugs, I would place the hallucinogenic and acid drugs together in one category. Then the poppy and coca drugs should be placed together and the marijuana and Silva types in yet a separate category.

Now, let us use some logic and Clear Thinking on this drug problem. Almost all the acid drugs can be manufactured in the average home from easy to acquire chemicals if one is a chemist or knows how. (You can go to any good library and find the formulas for these). All the poppy and coca drugs can be manufactured in a small space, but the raw material is basically not grown in the United States. It must be imported. The marijuana plant can be grown almost any place in the USA.

The acid drugs are extremely dangerous to health and can very easily cause death, insanity and replace reality with a believable non-reality. They are not necessarily addictive, but their effect is accumulative. That is, the body does not rid itself quickly of these drugs but stores them in the tissues of the body. So, one who uses these acids can easily take a lethal or insane producing dosage even though the last dose was no more than the next to last dose.

In addition to this, at any time, the tissues of the body can release enough of the drug back into circulation to produce an instant high. This is called a flash back. These flash backs can cause accidents, anti social behavior, "pink elephants," hostility, social embarrassments and worst of all, DEATH, both to the users themselves and to others.

The poppy and coca drugs must be rated according to their refinement. Think of the refinement of alcohol. The more sugar added to the vat, the more care, selection and aging, the higher the alcohol content. The product can be further refined by distilling. A twelve proof wine can be raised by repeated distilling, until it is nearly two hundred proof (or, pure alcohol).

Such is the case with the poppy and coca drugs. Lightly refined poppy and coca drugs should be classified along with the marijuana types. Why do people not use these lightly refined drugs? Because, no one will make them! Since the danger of making and selling lightly refined drugs is the same as that for highly refined drugs, why waste the effort when the highly refined drugs are addictive (producing constant customers) and the lightly refined ones are not addictive. All highly refined poppy and coca drugs are addictive. These addictive drugs pose more of a criminal problem because the cost is so high and more of a health problem because of the addiction. These drugs, if taken in full strength, or with other drugs such as alcohol or acid can quickly cause death.

WHY DO PEOPLE USE THESE DRUGS?

First, there is the high. People who do not use drugs do not know what high means. It means first, a powerful sexual feeling. It is also called euphoria. In fact, some people can only have intercourse and an orgasm or enjoy sex if they have first taken a coca, poppy or similar drug. Others, who take these drugs on a regular basis, find the sexual excitement and orgasm (with no other person or with no personal physical self stimulation) is better than sex with a partner without the drug.

Next, there is the mental and physical stimulation people get from these drugs. Some people find they can think faster, more clearly and finish a task faster under the influence of the coca drugs and sometimes the poppy drugs, if taken in small quantities.

One of the problems is that with extended use, one must use more of the drug just to think and feel normal. Another problem is that with both the poppy and coca drugs, reason and rationality becomes impaired. What that means is this. They can work a math problem faster but their moral judgment is impaired and they cannot make sound moral judgments. Right and wrong all becomes "gray." A third problem is the unbelievable high cost of these drugs. Fourth, as the drug wears off their mental and physical dexterity deteriorates rapidly. Since their judgment is also impaired, they will drive too fast, get irritated easily, do too many things by impulse, become argumentative or hostile, become paranoid, and have other dangerous and harmful actions and reactions.

I do not mean to imply that these drugs are harmless. They are NOT. Neither, do I mean to say that these drugs should be handed out to anyone who asks for them. What I am saying is, we need to keep our eyes on the goal of eliminating seventy-five percent of the crime in our country. We need to foster better health, eliminate our fears and produce more freedom for everyone, not to mention save countless individuals from death and drugs. And, in the bargain we can save the taxpayers billions and billions of dollars each and every year (that is you and me, my friends).

When a forest fire of destructive size breaks out, what is the best line of defense used by fire fighters? They light another controlled fire called a backfire. They do this to destroy the fuel that the fire needs to continue on its destructive path. Generally speaking, backfires work and give the fire fighters a chance to bring the main destructive fire under control.

Our drug problem and related crime is an out of control forest fire, which is threatening the very fabric, and existence of the American civilization. If it is not corrected and brought under control soon we may cease to exist as a Republic and find ourselves under the feet of a dictator who will promise to rid our streets of crime. The believers will support him. And he will still fail but he will succeed in removing the last vestiges of our freedoms from us!

IS THE LOSS OF OUR FREEDOMS WHAT WE WANT?

My vote and voice says, NO!

Instead of losing our freedoms, let us use the little freedom and common sense we now have. Couple our desire for freedom from crime and drugs with some common sense and we can build our backfire and bring the spread of the criminal element in this country under control.

I once heard a comedian (I believe it was Brother Dave) who said he had a plan to eliminate all crime in the USA. When asked what the plan was, he said, "Make it legal and tax it." That was years ago. After a few chuckles, the more I thought about it the more it began to ring true.

I haven't said much about marijuana yet. The reason I have saved it for last is because marijuana is our backfire. Marijuana can save us from the crime and cost that has become associated with drugs in this country. Just look at what marijuana can do for us in our fight against the hard drugs, crime and the unbelievable cost of these drugs and crime. And don't forget our Morals.

01. Marijuana will basically do for the user (in a milder form) what the poppy and coca drugs will do.

02. Marijuana is not biologically addictive.

03. Its effect dissipates from the body as fast or faster than alcohol.

04. There is no hangover tomorrow from its use.

05. It is cheap, will grow anywhere and is no more expensive to grow than flowers or tomatoes.

06. It places nitrogen into the soil, thus to grow marijuana, is to enrich the soil.

07. The seeds have long been a mainstay for animal, bird and fowl food.

08. Marijuana is not accumulative in the body. An occasional user will lose all traces in a week (except in his hair and nails). A regular user will be totally free of any effects in a couple of days and lose all chemical traces from his body in forty days or less.

09. On a commercial basis, marijuana is known as hemp and is perfect for making strong rope, bags, tents, tough cloth, sails, baskets and containers of many types. It makes the best tough, long lasting work pants and shirts in the world.

10. A pinch of marijuana ingested, is one of the best painkillers for those who need to sublimate the pain so that they may be able to accomplish some task for themselves or their company without the pain.

11. For people with glaucoma of their eyes, it tends to clear the vision and slows or corrects the condition.

12. Marijuana will soften one's aggressiveness and hostility and make a user more social and agreeable.

13. For those being treated for cancer with chemotherapy, marijuana enables the patient to reduce the pain of the cancer and to keep food on their stomach without being so nauseous. Nothing else known will do this without harmful side affects.

14. Marijuana is ideal for treating anorexia because it calms the nervous system and produces an appetite and eliminates nausea.

15. A pinch of marijuana before bedtime serves as the best harmless sleeping pill one can have.

16. Marijuana enables people who are very shy to navigate in society without the associated fear of people.

17. It drastically reduces arthritic pain.

18. Marijuana may be either smoked or ingested.

19. It is a mild tranquilizer. A tiny pinch of Marijuana ingested will relax a nervous person without any known impairment of mental or physical functions.

20. Ingested, marijuana acts as a bowel stimulant and will keep a person regular.

21. It produces more oxygen while growing than any other known land plant.

22. Marijuana is to the land what plankton is to the sea. It is the best most versatile plant on earth. And what have we done to this wonderful plant God has so graciously given to us? You guessed it. WE OUTLAWED MARIJUANA! Marijuana is one of the only two plants in the world, which has male and female plants. Could it have come to us from a divine source? Did it come from some other planet? Is it a gift?

23. Marijuana makes the best cheapest and best paper known. Paper made with marijuana lasts longer, is tougher, stays whiter longer and it repels insects. Did you know only flax or marijuana (hemp) is used to make cigarette papers? All high quality coffee filters and filters for machinery are made from the marijuana plant. And guess what? If you have a Bible with thin, tough, long lasting, expensive paper, it is made from the marijuana plant. Think about that when you next thump your Bible. Did you know our Constitution was originally written on Marijuana paper?

24. Marijuana is the fastest growing, annually renewable plant, and that includes kudzu.

25. An acre of marijuana will produce many times the weight of paper that an acre of pine will produce and do it every year. And each year the yield of marijuana goes up because it enriches the soil while pine depletes the soil. Want to save some trees?

26. Marijuana seeds have one of the highest beneficial protein counts of all the known seeds. As an animal or human supplement food, it cannot be beat. It is rich in minerals and vitamins. If you take supplements, you are most likely ingesting some marijuana.

27. It is disease and insect resistant.

28. Marijuana has a long history that even goes beyond beer and wine.

29. Every major civilization of the past has used marijuana for commercial products, medicine and recreation.

30. There is no record or indication (until now) that wars were ever fought over marijuana, as has been the case of beer, wine, whisky, poppy and coca drugs as well as tobacco and lumber.

31. Marijuana produces the highest quality oils used in cosmetics, paints, medicines and lubricants for tiny instruments and for big ones.

32. It makes refreshing houseplants, removes odors and adds beauty and oxygen to the air.

33. Ascetically, it is a beautiful, fiery green plant that adds beauty to one's yard or garden.

34. It protects other plants by repelling insects from neighboring plants.

35. Use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs DECLINE when marijuana is available and used. That is a known statistical fact.

36. Marijuana (when available) absolutely DOES NOT led to the use of other hard drugs. In fact, it does just the opposite. Marijuana reduces the consumption of the hard drugs, alcohol and tobacco. People who use marijuana generally do not want to use the hard drugs. Ask your doctor and maybe he will tell you the truth. Diet pills, Darvon and other prescribed drugs DO lead to the other hard drugs. Marijuana does not!

There is no record of anyone dying from using only marijuana.

Alcohol, tobacco and hard drugs are the killers.

These thirty-six statements are just a few of the reasons why we should consider marijuana in a truthful and honest light. Marijuana is a plant that should be grown everywhere for the sake of the air we breath, the trees we could save, the animals we could feed cheaply, the food we eat, the rope and commodities we can make, the paper we use, the clothes we wear, the chemicals we use, the soil we wish to enrich, the crime we hope to escape, the accidents we hope to avoid, the tensions we wish to relieve and the recreation for which we hope. Marijuana is the best protection from soil erosion and mudslides known since its roots run strongly though the soil. And let's not forget the billions and billions of tax dollars we can save and use for more useful purposes.

Disregarding the recreational use of marijuana, it is one of the most versatile and valuable plants on this planet. If I were religious, I would say it is one of the greatest natural gifts that God ever gave to mankind.

Well, everything has a down side. What is the down side of using marijuana for recreational purposes? Like alcohol, one should not drive, operate machinery, or make important decisions while under the immediate influence of marijuana (about two or so hours). There is the loss of short-term memory for the occasional users while under the influence (again, about two hours). Long-term users will have sluggishness of memory and sometimes, (in some) it will produce forgetfulness. Poor concentration is expected during use if one takes it by smoking. Some say that smoking marijuana (from a health stand point) is about equal to four or five cigarettes. Others say it is no worse than the same amount of tobacco. But all will pay a whopping high price for a few leaves or buds of this plant.

Contrary to some government and religious spokesmen, marijuana does not "fry the brain." In fact, it does much less harm than alcohol does to the system. Some research has hinted that marijuana offers relief of the prostrate and its symptoms and may be valuable in that area. It also activates the kidneys and therefore, cleanses the blood faster. Marijuana has been the best treatment for thousands of years for epilepsy problems and even today is better than any other drug treatment. There is no better pain relief for multiple sclerosis and its terrible muscle cramps than marijuana. But the criminals, believers and politicians outlawed marijuana.

Now we will come to the point. Here is my plan to rid our cities and country side of seventy-five percent of our crime, return our streets to the citizens of our country, eliminate the fear which permeates the public and save us billions on billions of dollars and thousands and thousands of lives.

01. Do with marijuana what we have done with beer, wine and tobacco. Let anyone who so wishes grow his own. Certainly, there needs to be rules. No more than two or three mature plants per adult in the household at any one time. No selling to others, etc.

02. Let the tobacco companies grow, process and sell it as is done with tobacco and alcohol.

03. Use the same rules on federal, state and local taxes as are done with tobacco.

04. Use the same safety laws and rules on marijuana as is used with alcohol.

05. Have education on marijuana as is now done with alcohol.

06. This will reduce the price of marijuana from two hundred plus dollars to about the same price as tobacco.

07. Clear our jails of casual users, but not the dealers.

One item we MUST NOT overlook is this. Marijuana is bulky, hard to hide, hard to transport, hard to keep secret where it is grown and needs to be somewhat fresh.

Criminals can carry thousands of dollars worth of the coca or poppy drugs in their pocket, while a wheelbarrow or pickup truck would be necessary to carry half that dollar amount of marijuana.

I have been told you can get the poppy or coca drugs on a fourth of the street corners of our big cities. But if you want marijuana, arrangements must be made in advance and great additional risks face both the criminal dealer and user. If you were a drug dealer, would you deal in poppy and coca products or the bulky easy to spot marijuana, especially, when the penalties are about the same?

There are thousands of people using the expensive, addictive poppy and coca drugs simply because it is much more risky and difficult to obtain marijuana!

So, to completely legalize marijuana would immediately cut off billions of dollars from the poppy and coca trade. In addition, the price of these hard drugs would drop drastically, there by, lessening the need for users to resort to thefts and other crimes to finance their uses of it.

With marijuana legal, a large portion of our crime will instantly disappear and many hard drug users may soon become gardeners and solid citizens.

Now we must turn our attention to the poppy and coca drugs. So far, we have reduced both the cost and the distribution of these addictive drugs by legalizing marijuana.

Next, we must take the profit out of these hard drugs. How do we do that? I am glad you asked. Don't forget, we have billions and billions and billions of dollars to use that are now being wasted in hundreds and hundreds of ways trying to fight the drugs and drug dealers head on.

Let us try some end runs and some passes over the dealer's heads. First, we legalize the drugs. (That means we decriminalize the possession and use of these drugs and make treatment available and legal.) Clear our jails of casual users. Institute a detoxification system in our cities that one may attend without stigma or reprisal. Then we:

01. Go where the stuff is grown and buy it. Hire farmers in other countries to grow the poppy and cocoa plants. Out bid the dealers. We wouldn't have to do this but two or three times. There might be a fight at first, but when the dealers see that we mean to do this, they will back off or die defending their farms and pipelines. Either way, we win.

02. Bring the raw stuff back to the states and process it in a sanitary and controlled environment. Make more lightly refined product and less of the highly refined.

03. Sell it through state owned distribution centers, drug stores, or out patient clinics - BY PRESCRIPTION.

04. This means the patient (addict) must consult a doctor who may also counsel or advise the patient on the best method of ridding himself of the habit. Also, he might suggest marijuana to them as a substitute that can help relieve the addict's pain while trying to stop his addiction to the hard drugs. Insurance companies should be happy because their crime and medical cost will drop drastically to offset any additional treatment cost to them.

05. Set up emergency clinics where the addict can get the stuff for a cheap price if he signs to see a doctor later.

06. Set up a computer hot line so doctors can cross check and see that the patient is not seeing others to get the drugs.

07. Establish farms where kids in drug trouble or from blighted areas can sign up (or, be assigned). They would get some pay, but they also get much more. They get drug treatment, counseling, education, room and board, sports, skill, craft training and entertainment. There should be libraries, computers and moral training (but not religious instruction). This will pay off in lower crime, more useful people and we can do it with a very small portion of the tax money we save from fighting the useless drug war.

08. Produce and products from the farms could pay some of the expenses.

09. After some period of time they could get leave, trips to important places and be instructed in business as they complete their courses. Businesses should be encouraged to hire them. After all, many of these kids are very bright. They are just dumb and ignorant of the social and educational skills. These camps and schools will instruct the kids in these skills.

10. Dealers could turn themselves in, accept counseling, rehabilitation, serve some time and go on probation. Those who sought to escape or continue selling would be put in jail and kept there.

11. Family and close friends who do not cooperate in exposing dealers, should be classified as accomplices and be jailed as examples to others.

12. Now, we attack the money pipeline. Anyone found laundering money for the dealers should be stripped of their citizenship and deported, fined or jailed or any combination thereof.

13. Off shore banking must be reported by banks in the USA. If not, the Chairman of the Board and the President of that bank, or CEO shall be charged as accomplices along with any others involved.

14. Any large money order (say $5000 or more), travelers’ check or cashier's check must be reported if the check or money order is assigned to over seas recipients or cashed in foreign banks.

15. Houses, boats, cars or other high priced items, bought with cash, must be reported.

16. Credit card use of five thousand dollars or more payable to over seas accounts or businesses must be reported.

17. Banks with over seas connections must report large money transfers or face criminal charges.

18. Auditors found to be in collusion with banks, financial houses and such shall go to jail under a stiff penalty law.

19. Over-seas businesses owned by US residents shall submit their over seas banking records or be refused the privilege of transferring their profits to or from US banks.

20. Cash deposits of ten thousand dollars or more must be reported by banks, brokers and financial institutions.

21. From time to time, the treasure department shall change our money so large sums of hoarded money must be exchanged or totally lost.

22. All depositors shall be fingerprinted. Anyone set of prints showing more than two bank accounts, shall be investigated, and must justify the extra accounts.

23. The classification of a dealer must not include the person who gets a little for his friends. But, it should include anyone who receives drugs in bulk (say, $2000 worth or more per month at the now reduced prices).

Let me stop and commit on these drastic steps. Many of these items are already in place, but only for the convenience of the IRS. Also, I would suggest, they would only be on the law books and enforced for five years or so and not renewable for another five years after the original laws have expired. After all, we don't want to lose our freedoms, so any of these items passed by the government must have a built in limitation of time with no renewal possible for five years. With our other steps in progress, that limited period would be enough time to make the dealers run for cover. In five or so years, the American people would own their country and their streets again.

Such measures will inconvenience the financial institutions, but compliance would make laundering money very difficult and costly. I also realize, the financial institutions and dealers would soon find ways to circumvent the process and laundering money would not totally dry up. But, enough financial institutions and businesses would suffer the penalties that, selling drugs and laundering money would become secondary to trying to use some of the money they all ready have.

I have no objection to any one being rich. I do object if that wealth is the result of their crimes, their dishonesty, or if their wealth was taken from innocent people, or the poor who cannot afford it.

Our crime situation is growing like kudzu on an abandoned South Georgia farm. What are we going to do about it? Strong-arm tactics that are being used today will only destroy our freedoms and corrupt more law enforcement and judicial agents. Are we going to continue corrupting and destroying our government, our law enforcement people, our economy, our families and ourselves? Are we going to continue to meet these crime waves head on and continue to LOSE EVERYTHING, as we are doing today?

The ultimate result of our present course of wasteful action against crime and drugs will result in the loss of the very thing that makes America different from the rest of the world. OUR FREEDOMS! Americans are called CITIZENS. In most other countries, the people are called subjects, populous, consumers or natives.

All ready, the believers who run businesses in this country are demonstrating their dictatorial and pietistic attitude toward the rest of us by taking hair samples and drug test of their employees. And they are spying on their employees. They do this so they can build the employees' drug history from their hair. This is blackmail. These believers use their economic and political positions of power to hold America hostage to their antiquated arrogant concept that they have heard from the Almighty and THEY KNOW BEST. All we have to do to see if they do know best is to read our newspaper listen to the radio and watch TV. If their beliefs were correct, then our civilization would not be in such terror and depravity.

If we don't do some of the things I have outlined here, the situation will just get worse, more costly, and more depraved and WE TOO may soon be called subjects and have OUR doors kicked in at 3 am.

Besides, doing more of the same, as we are doing now, the next big step will be the loss of many more of our freedoms. Then, when that fails, a bona fide dictatorship, or something that closely resembles it, will come to us with promises to clear our streets, suppress crime and stop all the neighborhood problems and wars. Big Brother will have arrived at last! AND I DON'T LIKE THAT! And who will be supporting and encouraging the take over of ALL of our freedoms? You guessed it. The criminals and the Believers who will want MORE PROHIBITIONS on MORE and MORE things.

We see that much of our crime is actually caused by those well meaning but misinformed people who would withhold part of the cure and protection that we could have in our fight against this costly tragedy of drugs in our nation. They insist on keeping marijuana illegal. Those who would classify marijuana as illegal (and a sin) are stealing the future from themselves and from you and me. But, worst of all, they are stealing a safe, secure, and productive life from their own children and grand children.

If some of our religious people will stop and think logically for a moment, they will see that their religion and their God would have us fight crime and drugs with common sense (not dogs, guns, clubs and jails). Common sense will produce success for all of us. Certainly, the misuse of drugs is wrong! But then, so is the misuse of automobiles, kitchen knives, or any thing else. We don't prohibit kitchen knives because someone misuses one to cut up someone else. Let us face our problems like adults, put away ancient childish thoughts and rules, and stop destroying our civilization and our future.

Don't forget. It was the poppy drug that was used by the British to conquer China. Don't let this happen to America. Maybe I should say, "Don't let it continue to happen in the United States of America. Wake up!"

In the whole world, the USA has the highest percentage of its citizens in jail, mostly for drug use and drug possession.

The nation with the least per capital crime in the civilized world is Holland. How do they handle drugs and drug crimes? I am glad you asked that question, too. They LEGALIZED MARIJUANA and the US government actually brings pressure to bare on them for not doing like we are doing. Not only is their crime rate the lowest, they also have the least per capital deaths from accidents, murder and such and their ratio of longevity is very high. People live longer in Holland than in most other countries. Holland is also a religious country, but their leaders saw the problem, saw the solutions and put them in to practice. It does work! If it works for Holland, then it will work for the United States of America.

If I were religious, I would say, marijuana is one of the greatest natural gifts God ever gave to this earth. I just hope He also gave us enough wisdom to use marijuana as a weapon against hard drugs and crime and to use it wisely and properly.

Big Brother is now riding high and fast on the crest of the drug war and related crime problems, and getting rich, I might add. Why don't we put a STOP to all this foolishness and light our backfire? Legalize marijuana and let us begin to take the money and crime out of hard drugs. Please!!! Give us back our streets! Give our kids a safe opportunity to live the

AMERICAN DREAM!!!

LET'S DO IT!!!

LET US LIGHT OUR BACKFIRE!

THANK YOU FOR READING DRUGS AND CRIME.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED

You are welcome to down load this article.

Contact me if you would like to publish this article.

Thomas E. Blaylock

Copyright: 1989

Updated: 06/2010

mailto:medubious@gmail.com

INDEX