U.S. legaliser tries to export drug nonsense to Australia

According to an article in The Australian, headlined ‘Legalise and tax marijuana’ to drive out drug underworld, Ethan Nadelmann from the George Soros-supported Drug Policy Alliance in New York is trying to export his drug political nonsense to Australia.

Speaking at the National Press Club in Australia Nadelmann tried to convince journalists that it would be a good idea to regulate drugs and tax them. However, the voters in California do NOT believe that legalisation, taxation and regulation of marijuana are good ideas. At the beginning of November people in California clearly opposed the idea to legalise marijuana voting NO to Proposition 19 that would, if passed, have legalised marijuana in California.

Maybe Nadelmann thinks that Australians don´t read the papers and, consequently, don´t know that Proposition 19 was defeated. Maybe he thinks that Australians haven´t heard that the Netherlands is getting tougher on drugs, and that there is a constant decrease in the number of coffee shops where “legal” cannabis is sold in the Netherlands.

Nobody in Australia should be astonished to see Nadelmann team up with Alex Wodak, another well-known proponent of legalisation, who also claims that legalising marijuana would solve the problem.

Once again, this is sheer nonsense. How could anyone be naïve enough to believe that people already making millions of dollars from the dirty drug trade would give up that trade if drugs were legalised? Of course they wouldn´t. On the contrary, legalising drugs would facilitate access to the market for the criminal drug business. In a situation where drugs are accepted, the criminal underworld would compete with Nadelmann & Wodak by selling drugs cheaper, targeting those who would not be allowed to “benefit” from the regulated and taxed sale proposed by Nadelmann & Wodak. On top of that, they set their own rules and regulations and taxes without asking.

The criminal underworld doesn´t care about rules, regulations and taxes. They run their business the way they want to run it regardless of proposals by Nadelmann & Wodak and their friends, or decisions taken by policy makers.

Australia definitely doesn´t need more drugs, but that is exactly what Nadelmann & Wodak are asking for when proposing legalisation.

Don´t let yourself be fooled by the efforts to export U.S. drug nonsense to Australia.