This is big news, but as usual, you have to go to the source to get the story right, and even then you have to read it with discipline:
A good friend of mine was a deep undercover narc, about 12 years. His observations:
1. Addicts were in pain, and used dope as self-medication.
2. There are wide swathes of pain not recognized in medicine. So people in pain look elsewhere when they cannot get relief from formal medicine, or do not otherwise have access to it.
3. Perfectly good drugs for political reasons are forbidden, or made so onerous to prescribe that they are abandoned. Some peoples problems need these drugs. Here again, people must go underground to get the pain addressed.
4. As people are denied the pain-management they need, they have to turn to criminals, and there is the downward spiral. The criminality from prohibition invites the official corruption we all see.
It seems to me there is not much there for the anti-legalization crowd, especially since the laws are more decriminalization than legalization.
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Let me state this in the clearest terms possible: the problem of drug use is not solved with drugs! Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise. To think that harm can be reduced by permitting drug addicts to use narcotics in no way resolves the problem.So far do good. Addiction is evil (evil means "lack of good" in theology) and feeding addictions won't solve the problem. Fair enough.
Attempts, however limited, to legalize so-called “recreational drugs”, are not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail to produce the desired effects.This is tricky. Legalizing drugs is not to end drug use, but end state incarceration of nonviolent criminals. So to people wanting to end addiction, legalization is no help, to be sure. But that is not the point of legalization. Imprisoning people does not end addiction either.
Substitute drugs are not an adequate therapy but rather a veiled means of surrendering to the phenomenon.Right again, methadone is a scam.
Here I would reaffirm what I have stated on another occasion: No to every type of drug use. It is as simple as that. No to any kind of drug use (cf. General Audience, 7 May 2014). But to say this “no”, one has to say “yes” to life, “yes” to love, “yes” to others, “yes” to education, “yes” to greater job opportunities. If we say “yes” to all these things, there will be no room for illicit drugs, for alcohol abuse, for other forms of addiction.Now he does not mean "no to any kind of drug use, since this is in the context of addiction. Surely he is ok with morphine in the operating room. It is the coda where he makes the point: just say yes. The pope is not saying criminalize dope, he is saying free things up so fewer want dope.
A good friend of mine was a deep undercover narc, about 12 years. His observations:
1. Addicts were in pain, and used dope as self-medication.
2. There are wide swathes of pain not recognized in medicine. So people in pain look elsewhere when they cannot get relief from formal medicine, or do not otherwise have access to it.
3. Perfectly good drugs for political reasons are forbidden, or made so onerous to prescribe that they are abandoned. Some peoples problems need these drugs. Here again, people must go underground to get the pain addressed.
4. As people are denied the pain-management they need, they have to turn to criminals, and there is the downward spiral. The criminality from prohibition invites the official corruption we all see.
It seems to me there is not much there for the anti-legalization crowd, especially since the laws are more decriminalization than legalization.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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