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Drug Control

Submitted March 22, 2005 - 4:27 am by Richard Eramian
The best way to control drugs is by the free market where there are only two rules, no force and no fraud.

Currently, a person (adult) with a prescription can buy opiates such as morphine that are packged in doses between ten or thirty milligrams (mg) which is perfectly safe for anyone. Oxycontin (time released oxycodone which is roughly eqivilent to morphine or heroin) comes in 40mg and 80mg pills but the drug is slowly released over many hours. They are perfecty safe when taken as directed (orally). Legal drug companies package drugs in safe doses because it is logical to do so. No businessman or manufacturer wants their customers to die or become sick.

In a free society or free market, any adult would be free to purchase as many pills as he wanted without a presription and the pills would be very cheap and safe. The free market price for one pound of pure morphine or heroin would be about one hundred dollars. An oxycontin pill would cost less than five cents rather than five dollars or more and the consumer would not have to pay many dollars for a prescription.

The current government-licensed drug cartel would lose a few hundred billion dollars in yearly profits and the criminal justice industry would lose a similar amount. All that money, about one trillion dollars per year, would go back to drug consumers and taxpayers. The other benificiaries would be peasant farmers and workers in the plant-drug industry who would no longer be abused by drug enforcement goons.

Deaths from accidental overdoses would be eliminated because it is impossible to accidently overdose on properly labeled drugs that are packaged in safe doses. It is impossible to accidently take twenty or thirty pills if you only wanted two or three. If some fool wanted to experiment by bringing himself to the brink of death, he could do so without dying because there is an antidote that is 100% effective.

All deaths from accidental opiate overdoses are caused by adulterated and improperly labeled drugs which are produced by illegalization. In fact, effective antidotes such as narcan are not widely available because they are illegal.

The free market gives people what they want which, in this case, is cheap, safe, and effective drugs for medicinal, recreational and ceremonial uses.

Rick Eramian   freeman@shore.net

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