Reinert co-sponsors Minnesota bill against synthetic drugs
March 6, 2012 at 1:13 pm in Duluth News Tribune
The House version of the bill, which Police Chief Gordon Ramsay testified on last week, would broaden language that would ban sales of synthetic drug analogs compounds similar to the ones already banned by state and federal law.
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I hate to see this, but the bill is a waste of time. Go ahead and outlaw the synthetics. There will be something new by the next month. Drugs are usually a symptom of another problem, not the worst thing in the world by themselves.
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Hey chief, what about Roger’s drug of choice, yes the one he wants sold on Sunday… The economic costs associated with alcohol use in Minnesota in 2007 amounted to an estimated $5.06 billion. This amounts to $975 for every person in the state. These costs are 17 times greater than the $296 million in tax revenues collected from alcohol sales. Alcohol‐related health care services cost Minnesota $938 million and lost earnings due to alcohol‐related productivity costs the state $3.71 billion and a whopping $278 million for alcohol‐related motor vehicle crashes and $8 million in alcohol‐related fire destruction costs… I really hate to reveal these statistics because nobody seems to care, backlash is vicious and hailed as, its legal. But the dangers and costs are clear yet nothing gets done about it, this bill proposed by Roger is proof that there’s isn’t a concern about the most dangerous used drug in our state. http://www.health.state.mn.us/alcohol/alcpdf/HumanandEconomicCostofAlcoholUseinMinnesota.pdf
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You’re right TheBigK, it is a double standard. But alcohol is the drug of choice for many people, probably including the majority of those who pass our laws….and probably those who enforce them too, so they are bound to have a subjective and unbalanced view of the subject.
I actually like Roger’s idea of Sunday Liquor. I have no idea why Liquor can’t be sold on Sunday in this state. I personally don’t believe not selling liquor on Sunday stops any alcohol consumption. I’m sure all those Sunday football game get togethers are well stocked from a Satruday liquor run.
We tried alcohol prohibition once, and it didn’t work very well…and that’s putting it mildly. Now in the later half of the 20th century we’ve now moved on to drug prohibition….and quite honestly that’s not working very well either. Sooner or later we’ll figure out this isn’t that different from the carnage that alcohol prohibition casused and go…ahhhhhhhh, I see now and stop some of this nonsense and start slowly legalizing things and perhaps regulating them a bit. This will take a while…it certaintly can’t be done via legal fiat….but done slowly and methodically it would certainly be possible to improve things.
People who take illegal drugs (or for that matter abuse legal ones too) have many reasons for doing so. Personally I’d find severe pain relief about the only legitimate one…for me personally anyway, but the fact is, right or wrong, drug laws don’t stop many intent on abusing drugs…..from abusing drugs. It just drives it underground where it’s perhaps less obvious to most who are not drug abusers. Of course stuff drug laws with long prison sentances for dealers and users do really benefit one group….and that’s the profit potential available to drug lords and gangs who distrubute. Legalizing and regulating some of these would virtually put them out of business immediately along with the violence they bring with them protecting their territories.
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