Well, let’s concede for a moment that the argument is at least a rational it is an argument that says if you make something illegal, the only people who can get access to it are going to commit a crime, and that’s going to encourage further crime. In this case let’s look at the substance known as marijuana. So the argument is made, society actually cleans itself up, it improves its situation, and it removes an incentive to immoral and illegal behavior by simply decriminalizing or legalizing the issue that is at stake. This creates an illegal economy it creates networks of crime, and these crime networks depend upon the fact that what they’re selling isn’t available in a legal format. When we look at the argument for legalizing or decriminalizing narcotics and drugs, what we see is the argument that we simply have to give in to the fact that people are going to use these drugs they’re going to gain access to marijuana one way or another and if you don’t legalize it then their only way to get it is through criminal activity, through buying it through illegal sources. So what’s really going on here? Let’s take a closer look.
Now you might think that that might be something that would appear in some fringe newspaper somewhere, but this is, after all, the Washington Post and the argument is not being made by someone who’s a pop singer, but rather the top prosecutor in Italy. It’s interesting, after all, that here you have a headline saying that in order to defeat the Islamic State what we need to do is to legalize marijuana. It’s made the Washington Post and it’s made headlines worldwide. So let’s look at the argument being made here. But the issue of the so-called war on drugs points back to the larger question of government trying to limit immoral behavior, or that which is at least understood as immoral-or at least was once understood to be immoral. The so-called war on drugs goes back as long as Western civilization-there had been efforts undertaken by virtually every country to at least to limit the sale or availability of substances that were believed to be unhealthy or, furthermore, dangerous. In the midst of a moral revolution, this is the kind of question that all the sudden bubbles to the surface having really not been considered before. Now once again, this is a really interesting question. It also includes at least one current U.S. The list includes very interesting figures in popular culture, including Richard Branson, but also Jimmy Carter, the former President of the United States. Now a further look at the story indicates that it is part of a larger story, and that story includes a letter sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, by a group of those who are trying to legalize drugs or decriminalize drugs, or at least to end the so-called war on drugs worldwide. “Decriminalization or even legalization would definitely be a weapon against traffickers, among whom there could be terrorists who make money off of it.” Italy’s top prosecutor is making an interesting argument when he says,
The Islamic State, in particular, gleans money off smuggling routes from parts of Libya into Europe.”
“Decriminalizing marijuana - or even making it legal - would dent the illicit networks that profit from its sale and production. The man at the center of this, the top prosecutor in Italy, his name is Franco Roberti, he is not only the chief anti-terrorism officer of Italy, but also its anti-Mafia chief, as the Washington Post says “a joint portfolio that was created last year.” That’s the argument coming from Italy’s top prosecutor, a man who in an interview with Reuters also pointed out the links between the extremist group and organized crime in his country. Here is the point made by the Washington Post: The Islamic State and its terrorist proxies would suffer if cannabis were decriminalized. Now perhaps you’ve ever put those two stories together before or combined those two issues in your imagination, but there they are. “The latest idea for defeating the Islamic State: Legalize pot.” This is evidenced by a story that came in a headline in the Washington Post. In the midst of a moral revolution, some really interesting questions emerge that force us to think very carefully.
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