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Normally, I’m against government in all of its forms. It taxes and spends, and uses up citizens’ money for pork spending and unnecessary “aid.” However, I believe government should expand to one area: drugs. Not drug regulation, but cultivation and sales.

Think about it this way: are people going to stop buying drugs just because they’re illegal? Of course not. All we do is foster cartels, a black market, and waste billions on anti-drug campaigns. Why don’t we just target the source?

Here’s my plan. The government creates something called the Federal Department of Hallucinogens or whatnot. They can start by getting tobacco farmers to grow drugs, which they must sell exclusively to the federal government. Failure to do so will result in confiscation of land. However, the government will pay fair prices for each kind of drug.

Then, the government will manufacture them into a usable form. Because the government is heavily regulating it, marijuana will be in a pure form, not that cocaine-spiked stuff that they give to kids these days. Likewise, meth, for one, will also be free of the useless garbage-it will be sterile and safer. Dosage can also be regulated by the government. The government can then sell drugs to druggies at a decent price, allowing them to make a profit (including all the beauracacy, farmers, regulation). They can use this money to, say, fund education.

This plan has several effects: firstly, it will cripple the drug cartels. No money = no mercenaries, guns, and therefore crime. They will be starved. Secondly, the drugs will be safer and more regulated against OD’s. This will reduce such deaths. Third, the government makes money, not spends it. We’ll save whatever we spend on drug-regulation, and make money from the selling of drugs, allowing us to cut taxes and fund other things like education. Fourthly, we get more people employed, and we can keep them happy. Finally, the government will have a large stockpile of these drugs to use for military/scientific/medical purposes. What’s wrong with this plan? Almost nothing.

Perhaps the best part is that it will give us back, on average, $30 of our taxes. This may not seem like a lot, but when you account for the 300,000,000 people in this country, and the 150,000,000 who actually pay tax (middle class always gets screwed, poor people want higher taxes cuz they don’t have to pay them and get benefits, upper classes have the means to evade taxes via switzerland, etc.) that’s a lot of money.

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