The following is excerpted from SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Humanity.
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Drugs
If there is one thing different about crime a half century ago (when I was in high school) and today, it is the current presence of drugs, and how family and society are now affected. Much of the following comes from the early version of the 2008 United Nations World Drug Report. The English version is all of 7.3 MB and 310 pages long. According to this tome, 200 million people have used illicit drugs at least once in the past 12 months. That’s about 3% of the world population.
Tobacco, a licit (legal) psychoactive substance, is used by more than one fourth of the world adults (approaching 2 billion smokers), versus 4% on marijuana and 1% for all other illegal drugs. This legal drug (tobacco) is, actually, a relative newcomer, compared to the illegal variety, and probably gained prominence in the Americas in the early AD period. Columbus was given a few leaves, but threw them away, coining the term after his visit to Tobago. Portuguese and Spanish sailors spread the habit to Europe. Virginia colonists in the later 16th century were responsible for the introduction into England, where it was then called, sotweed, about the time Sir Frances Drake passed on the practice to Sir Walter Raleigh.
The more expensive drugs induce crime because they are illegal, and this is the case because our authorities have declared them bad for you. There are 40 million problem drug addicts, or 0.6% of the world population. Thus, it is this relatively small portion of society that is tormenting the rest. As any amount of threat will not cure these souls, a simple solution would be to legally, morally and responsibly terminate this small fraction causing all the problems. Is this possible? Not today.
If there is one thing different about crime a half century ago (when I was in high school) and today, it is the current presence of drugs, and how family and society are now affected. Much of the following comes from the early version of the 2008 United Nations World Drug Report. The English version is all of 7.3 MB and 310 pages long. According to this tome, 200 million people have used illicit drugs at least once in the past 12 months. That’s about 3% of the world population.
Tobacco, a licit (legal) psychoactive substance, is used by more than one fourth of the world adults (approaching 2 billion smokers), versus 4% on marijuana and 1% for all other illegal drugs. This legal drug (tobacco) is, actually, a relative newcomer, compared to the illegal variety, and probably gained prominence in the Americas in the early AD period. Columbus was given a few leaves, but threw them away, coining the term after his visit to Tobago. Portuguese and Spanish sailors spread the habit to Europe. Virginia colonists in the later 16th century were responsible for the introduction into England, where it was then called, sotweed, about the time Sir Frances Drake passed on the practice to Sir Walter Raleigh.
The more expensive drugs induce crime because they are illegal, and this is the case because our authorities have declared them bad for you. There are 40 million problem drug addicts, or 0.6% of the world population. Thus, it is this relatively small portion of society that is tormenting the rest. As any amount of threat will not cure these souls, a simple solution would be to legally, morally and responsibly terminate this small fraction causing all the problems. Is this possible? Not today.
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The Dow Jones Industrials increased 172 to 8691, although the world stock exchanges mostly slightly dropped today. Crude oil eased up to just below $70/barrel.
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A tropical depression popped up south of Mexico, should move north, then west, but weaken in a couple of days.
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