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Tom’s World – 09SEP2025 – Drugs

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Truthfully, I went through a phase when I did drugs but that ended well over 40 years ago. I was lucky, not smart, no incredible willpower, just lucky. I apparently didn’t possess whatever gene creates the predilection to addiction and dependency. I could try something and say, “That was kinda cool” and walk away. A lot of people do have that gene and they are the unfortunates that battle dependency their entire lives. Some people, bless them, do possess that gene but also have a strength of character to refuse to succumb to alcohol, or drugs of lord knows what type.

A big problem being there have been some frightening drugs created over the last decades, drugs so horrendously addicting and/or destructive. I’m not certain that that it is possible to 100% solve the problem but, with these, an effort has to be made.

Having know a few of the addictive unfortunates, I have some sympathy and wouldn’t accept any solution that required that addicted users end in a jail cell.

I never dabbled with the supply side but obviously knew people who did and also know there is, and will always be, a percentage of the population that can no more resist the prospect of easy and big money than the users can resist the product.

I have no ideal what the solution could be other than to contain it to whatever extent possible. A lot of lives ruined and this includes especially alcohol. I do know that simply criminalizing every aspect, even strongly, reduces the problem but does not eliminate. Ever heard of Prohibition? That worked well, humm?

You’d think that the flood of fentanyl would act to suppress drug use because if you have to worry that the next dose of your whatever contains a fatal dose of something unexpected.

As far as blowing people away who are part of this plague of Musk level rich narco-terrorism? I’m perfectly okay with that.

They Blowed Up Real Good!

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So everyone in the world has by now seen the US military blowing up a speed boat carrying drugs from Venezuela to the US.

And some of you probably heard that some members of Congress, including some republicans have called this strike, murder.  Okay, I’m really glad that they have gone on the record as being against killing people importing cocaine, heroin and fentanyl into our country to kill our kids.  I think that’s a great way to get these people out of government.  At the very least, the Republicans have given their primary opponents a nice easy commercial to use against them.

I guess if you’re a hopeless libertarian you can justify legalizing hard drugs like fentanyl.  But even the boneheads in government in places like Washington and Oregon have had a change of heart about their decriminalizing opiates.  Their streets are filled with dying addicts murdering each other to get enough money for another fix.  And the spillover from the crime and disease that it has spawned has bankrupted cities like Portland and Seattle and driven all legitimate businesses out of their downtowns.

I would welcome Donald Trump blowing up narcotraficantes wherever and however he can do it.  Boats, planes, trucks, burros, human mules, you name it.  In fact I’d applaud it being featured on a television show called, “They Blowed Up Real Good!”  There could be footage from drones, attack aircraft of various types and even boats and land vehicles.  Just whenever they find a plane, truck or boat loaded with drug substance on its way to American citizens.

And sure, I know these addicts are culpable for their choices but I’ve known people who got started when they were basically kids and once hooked they never had a chance of escaping.  So for the sake of saving a generation of  American kids, I think we should “blow them up real good.”

And for good measure, we should put huge price tags on the heads of the drug kingpins and have their loyald minions sell them out and drag them off to some prison and then finish them off with a shot of fentanyl just like what they sell to kids.

And I realize many people disagree.  They think the war on drugs is a waste of time.  And of course I think they’re allowed their opinions.  But I think they’re wrong.  And making it a real war might be the way to win it.  I’ve always heard that Singapore doesn’t have a drug problem because they use the death penalty for drug traffickers.  Well, I’m sure it’s not as simple as all that and I know that the United States is many orders of magnitude larger than Singapore in both geographical size and population.  But it’s my opinion that destroying the opioid drug industry is a worthwhile goal that would eliminate untold misery and criminality from our country.  And I commend President Trump on his first video of the new season.  Hopefully he can finish off the season with a video of Maduro being hauled off to a Supermax prison in anticipation of his star turn in the death chamber.

Here’s a Seeming Paradox

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We’ve spent untold billions of dollars to fight the war on drugs and we’ve not only lost but we’ve given up and let it fill our streets with homeless and killed millions of children.  The Taliban who have basically nothing shut down the drug trade in one year of running Afghanistan.  So which is the better government?