Here is one answer to the drug crisis.
Back in the 1970’s, my husband was learning to fly an airplane. This event happened and word of it quickly spread around the airport.
One of the flight instructors, Leo, was asked to go to Columbia, pick up a load of marijuana in a specific airplane that was waiting there, and drop the marijuana off in the US. If he did this, he could keep the airplane.
Leo went to Columbia and the Columbian army loaded the plane with the drug. They put so much marijuana into the plane that Leo had to crawl over it to get to the pilot’s seat.
In his new airplane loaded with marijuana, Leo tried to take off, but the plane crashed at the end of the runway. A young Columbian girl rescued Leo from the burning airplane by dragging him away from it and he spent a long time in a Columbian hospital.
Leo did not get into legal trouble for his attempt to transport marijuana into the US, because he did not violate US law. However others who have tried to do this same thing since then have not been able to succeed.
Now high tech surveillance systems make this kind of thing impossible.
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President Trump said something interesting during his speech in Pennsylvania earlier this week. He said that if a man murders one person, he can get life in prison. But if he kills untold numbers of people by selling drugs to them, he gets a much shorter sentence—sometimes as short as a month. He suggested the death penalty for dealing drugs because in China’s death penalty for drug dealers has minimized its drug problem.
Trump is right. We need to change sentences for drug dealers. Perhaps if we give drug dealers life in prison with no possibility of parole, they might be convinced to find another profession. And maybe we should put Joe Arpaio, the warden of Arizona’s Tent City jail, in charge of these inmates.
Joe’s prisoners wear pink underwear, eat meatless meals, and swelter in the 120 degree heat. They do not get the luxuries that US federal inmates receive. Joe’s tactics cause his inmates to think twice before re-offending! So if a potential drug dealer knew he would be in a facility like Joe Arpaio’s Tent City for the rest of his or her life, that potential drug dealer would probably take a different career path.
If addicts cannot get drugs, we will no longer have a drug crisis.
Do you know your legislator? If you do not yet know him or her, perhaps you should get to know this person. Perhaps if we all tell our legislators that we want our drug crisis to end and the drug supply in the US stopped, they will enact laws to make it happen.
Let the encouraging words in these bobbiejrae posts help you
soar like an eagle above life’s storms.
Have a rotten day today and every other day of your life…
While waiting for our legislators to enact tougher laws…
Let’s prevent irrational actions in the future.
Tough love helps tough problems!