Whoa. Okay that’s a difficult metaphor but let me explain. Jello Biafra wrote, “For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.” And the bloody coat hangers are what the more ardent Pro-Choice activists use as a counter measure to the pro-lifers gory half-aborted fetuses. The point being, folks are going to do what they are going to do.
But in this case, it’s sort of like an overground. Friedman’s free market has demanded legal drugs. But wait, drugs aren’t legal. So the legal drug underground has risen.
Now in addition to the vast global underground created by the real drugs, we have fly-by-night chemists and companies coming up with snortable bath salts and smokable potpourri. If there was anything that symbolized the failure of the War on Drugs more, it’s the phrase “snorting bath salts and smoking potpourri.” There is just something fucked up about a government banning something that grows wild by the grace of God / natural law thgus driving people to snorting bath salts.
So then the loopholes in the law are pushing people into buying products not explicitly intended for human consumption. HArdly anyone knows whats in them, kids are killing themselves, the companies are all like, “Hey now we’re selling BATH SALTS man!” so civil law is out the window. Friedman’s free market is left with smokable potpourri like desperate girls were left with coat hangers.
I wonder why Reagan didn’t see all this coming? seriously, with his worship of Friedman, that whole “war on Drugs” thing he kicked off just seems goofy.
Why not just legalize and regulate the real stuff for fuck’s sake?
Everyone I know who smokes pot does it in spite of the law. Everyone I know who doesn’t, does so because they don’t like it and not because it is illegal.
Full disclosure: My vices are alcohol, coffee and maybe once or twice a year, a few dollars in the g-string of an exotic dancer.
I hear good things about smoking banana peels.
What?!