Can Cocaine be legal in the United States? i have some facts over here, take a look?
The Top Ten Reasons Cocaine Should Be Legal Prohibition hasn't stopped the use and domestic production of cocaine -- it's time everyone faced this. September 1, 2007 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Drugs headlines via email. Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition » Editor's note: There are millions of regular sniffers in America and millions more infrequent sniffers. Inhaling cocaine clearly has far fewer dangerous and hazardous effects on society than legal drugs such as alcohol. Here is High Times's top 10 reasons that cocaine should be legal, part of its 420 Campaign legalization strategy. 10. Prohibition has failed to control the use and domestic production of cocaine. The government has tried to use criminal penalties to prevent cocaine use for over 75 years and yet: cocaine is now used by over 25 million people annually, cocaine is currently the largest cash crop in the United States, and cocaine is grown all over the planet. Claims that cocaine prohibition is a successful policy are ludicrous and unsupported by the facts, and the idea that cocaine will soon be eliminated from America and the rest of the world is a ridiculous fantasy. 9. Arrests for cocaine possession disproportionately affect blacks and Hispanics and reinforce the perception that law enforcement is biased and prejudiced against minorities. African-Americans account for approximately 13% of the population of the United States and about 13.5% of annual cocaine users, however, blacks also account for 26% of all cocaine arrests. Recent studies have demonstrated that blacks and Hispanics account for the majority of cocaine possession arrests in New York City, primarily for snuffing cocaine in public view. Law enforcement has failed to demonstrate that cocaine laws can be enforced fairly without regard to race; far too often minorities are arrested for cocaine use while white/non-Hispanic Americans face a much lower risk of arrest. 8. A regulated, legal market in cocaine would reduce cocaine sales and use among teenagers, as well as reduce their exposure to other drugs in the illegal market. The illegality of cocaine makes it more valuable than if it were legal, providing opportunities for teenagers to make easy money selling it to their friends. If the excessive profits for cocaine sales were ended through legalization there would be less incentive for teens to sell it to one another. Teenage use of alcohol and tobacco remain serious public health problems even though those drugs are legal for adults, however, the availability of alcohol and tobacco is not made even more widespread by providing kids with economic incentives to sell either one to their friends and peers. 7. Legalized cocaine would reduce the flow of money from the American economy to international criminal gangs. Cocaine illegality makes foreign cultivation and smuggling to the United States extremely profitable, sending billions of dollars overseas in an underground economy while diverting funds from productive economic development. 6. Cocaine legalization would simplify the development of hemp as a valuable and diverse agricultural crop in the United States, including its development as a new bio-fuel to reduce carbon emissions. Canada and European countries have managed to support legal coca cultivation without legalizing cocaine, but in the United States opposition to legal cocaine remains the biggest obstacle to development of industrial coca as a valuable agricultural commodity. As US energy policy continues to embrace and promote the development of bio-fuels as an alternative to oil dependency and a way to reduce carbon emissions, it is all the more important to develop industrial coca as a bio-fuel source - especially since use of coca stalks as a fuel source will not increase demand and prices for food, such as corn. Legalization of cocaine will greatly simplify the regulatory burden on prospective coca cultivation in the United States. 5. Prohibition is based on lies and disinformation. Justification of cocaine illegality increasingly requires distortions and selective uses of the scientific record, causing harm to the credibility of teachers, law enforcement officials, and scientists throughout the country. The dangers of cocaine use have been exaggerated for almost a century and the modern scientific record does not support the reefer madness predictions of the past and present. Many claims of cocaine danger are based on old 20th century prejudices that originated in a time when science was uncertain how cocaine produced its characteristic effects. Since the coca receptor system was discovered in the late 1980s these hysterical concerns about cocaine dangerousness have not been confirmed with modern research. Everyone agrees that cocaine, or any other drug use such as alcohol or tobacco use, is not for children. Nonetheless, adu
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NO! It's not legal. Or do you mean could it ever be legal? Again, no. Look at the side effects and dangers.
