4th July. Around 12.30 pm noon time. Local grocery store. Big Queue at checkout counters. Most of the people are checking out with beer and other alcoholic beverages.
How come Alchohol only gives us sense of freedom. Well, not just 4th July. All major celebrations are now a days linked with significant higher consumption of alcohol and related beverages. Does all these toxins which essentially disable our brain cells and disable our decision making and thinking capabilities are the only way to celebrate. Off course, there are exceptions... But when majority of population only celebrates and gets happiness in these toxins, then there is something wrong.
I regularly go for blood donations. They specifically have drives before 4th July weekend so there are adequate supplies of blood before this weekend to cover higher consumption of blood units due to higher number of road accidents due to higher number of drunk drivings. Despite fact that every one knows that all the law enforcement officials work 24X7 during these kind of weekends to spot and ticket drunk drivers. No offense to anybody getting into accidents, but honestly I don't feel great in saving bloody drunk drivers life with my blood. I would rather donate it after this mad rush or surge is over and may be I donate to really some sober person getting into accidents(Hopefully)... However, I can't choose whom to save or whom not to save... and moreover their are no guarantees who will be saved and who won't. Who knows it may be saving someone who got hit by these drunk drivers..
Bottom line, I honestly started thinking about celebrating without alcohol (some will say that "Sau Chuhe Kha Kar Billi Haj ko Chali").. I would rather drink some when I can really relax and enjoy and really want my thinking power to take rest.. Let us see ;-)
PS: I had written this on July 4th 2011. Somehow forgot to post it.. However, this is mostly relevant even now...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Should we legalize Drugs?
Are we able to prevent drugs consumption by making it illegal? Who has really benefitted from drug illegalization? All the drugs will be cheaper by at least by factor of thousand if they were legal. That means that drugs will be easily sold as over the counter in pharmacies and many more shops in some kind of brands or specifications!!! Very bad situation!!! right..
That also means, no money for drug dealers, corrupt police/Politicians or any one else who is currently benefitting from it. All the money which is currently made by middlemen like gangs, traffickers, police etc would stay in legal hands. Actually it will simply vanish. On top of it, amount of money we spend on prevention could be utilized to educate masses and may be on proper medical care.
Question is.. Are economic benefits worth taking chances of few additional 100Ks more drug addict?
Actually biggest argument against legalization of drugs is that even one innocent life is worth keeping it illegal. Even one life getting spoiled due to legal drugs addiction is worth saving. I agree with both of them. Question is.. Are more lives are saved or lost due to illegal status of drugs? Are we able to prevent lifes of innocent people getting spoiled because of drugs?
In my view societies are loosing more lifes because of illegal status of drugs. I agree that there is no defined way of measuring if-but-else statements about it. As to my best of knowledge these drugs have been illegal right from beginning of normal human evolution.
Are their any examples of any country or state where drugs are legal.. I heard it is almost legal in Amsterdam.. What are the stats in there.. Is every kid who goes to high school is drug addict? I don't think so. What can we learn from these kind of examples if et all they exist...
They say that drug consumption is in-elastic.. means that whatever happens, if some one takes drug they will need it whatever the price of it may be. if price goes high, they will some how manage to arrange that high amount for it.. and this is the problem as it leads to high rate of petty crimes which leads to new petty criminals. Once these petty criminals are caught and they go to jail they turn to be hard core criminals... and ultimately leads to higher amount of bigger crimes..
Despite all these pro-legalization thoughts I still feel shaken by the fact that what will be society look like with legal drugs.. I have kids and I can't imagine them going to grocery store or pharmacy and getting drugs.. just like today's kids try to get Alcohol. At the same time not every kid go out and try to get alcohol.. Lot of it depends on parenting, society and the values kids get. If we and kids can determine and use judgement on alcohol kind of things.. why can't we be left to use same judgement on drugs.. Especially when they can save tens of thousands of lives of innocents..
I think we had enough of this non-sense and time has come to decide about these issues. We need to re-structure our laws and align them with new realities..
That also means, no money for drug dealers, corrupt police/Politicians or any one else who is currently benefitting from it. All the money which is currently made by middlemen like gangs, traffickers, police etc would stay in legal hands. Actually it will simply vanish. On top of it, amount of money we spend on prevention could be utilized to educate masses and may be on proper medical care.
Question is.. Are economic benefits worth taking chances of few additional 100Ks more drug addict?
Actually biggest argument against legalization of drugs is that even one innocent life is worth keeping it illegal. Even one life getting spoiled due to legal drugs addiction is worth saving. I agree with both of them. Question is.. Are more lives are saved or lost due to illegal status of drugs? Are we able to prevent lifes of innocent people getting spoiled because of drugs?
In my view societies are loosing more lifes because of illegal status of drugs. I agree that there is no defined way of measuring if-but-else statements about it. As to my best of knowledge these drugs have been illegal right from beginning of normal human evolution.
Are their any examples of any country or state where drugs are legal.. I heard it is almost legal in Amsterdam.. What are the stats in there.. Is every kid who goes to high school is drug addict? I don't think so. What can we learn from these kind of examples if et all they exist...
They say that drug consumption is in-elastic.. means that whatever happens, if some one takes drug they will need it whatever the price of it may be. if price goes high, they will some how manage to arrange that high amount for it.. and this is the problem as it leads to high rate of petty crimes which leads to new petty criminals. Once these petty criminals are caught and they go to jail they turn to be hard core criminals... and ultimately leads to higher amount of bigger crimes..
Despite all these pro-legalization thoughts I still feel shaken by the fact that what will be society look like with legal drugs.. I have kids and I can't imagine them going to grocery store or pharmacy and getting drugs.. just like today's kids try to get Alcohol. At the same time not every kid go out and try to get alcohol.. Lot of it depends on parenting, society and the values kids get. If we and kids can determine and use judgement on alcohol kind of things.. why can't we be left to use same judgement on drugs.. Especially when they can save tens of thousands of lives of innocents..
I think we had enough of this non-sense and time has come to decide about these issues. We need to re-structure our laws and align them with new realities..
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