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Cameron Douglas handed 5-year prison sentence
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(HMG) – Cameron Douglas, the son of Academy Award-winning actor Michael and grandson of Kirk, was just sentenced, after previously pleading to conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine and cocaine drugs, and heroin possession. Cameron was arrested in July 2008 at a trendy Manhattan hotel he was living at, dealing large quantities of methamphetamine and cocaine and originally put under house arrest. But he was thrown in jail after his girlfriend allegedly tried to smuggle heroin to him in an electric toothbrush.
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman sentenced Cameron, 31, to five years in prison Tuesday, calling it his “last chance to make it.” Actually while the Douglas family was hoping for a lighter sentence, conspiracy to distribute drugs carried a mandatory 10 years in prison, but the judge said the government had agreed that Douglas qualified for a lesser sentence. It had been revealed at a pretrial hearing that Douglas had tried to cooperate. Previously investigators said Douglas was paid tens of thousands of dollars for trafficking methamphetamine — what he referred to in intercepted phone calls as “pastry” or “bath salts.” Cash and drugs were routinely exchanged from coast to coast through shippers such as FedEx, court papers said. He had been previously arrested on drug-related charges in New York in 1999 and California in 2007.
Prior to the sentencing, Michael Douglas who famously starred the 2000 movie Traffic as a high-powered judge in charge of fighting a war on drugs, cited in a handwritten letter Cameron’s childhood in a “bad marriage” and “the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.”
When given his chance to speak, Douglas said he had missed valuable opportunities to overcome his addiction to heroin earlier in life.
“As a result, I squandered a lot of them,” he said. “If I should be so fortunate as to have another chance, I will never squander that opportunity.”
He said he felt the full support of his family for the first time in his life and missed “so dearly being involved in my true passion in life … which is being an entertainer, putting a smile on people’s faces.”
Cameron has acted in movies including 2003′s “It Runs in the Family,” starring his father and grandfather, Kirk Douglas.
What has been achieved here except the creation of another well paid job opening? These dealers earn more in a day than the rest of us do in a whole month, so, as quick as they’re arrested, their places are taken by other people more than willing to take a risk for such easy tax-free earnings.
Prohibition is a sickening horror and the ocean of incompetence, corruption and human wreckage it has left in its wake is almost endless.
Prohibition has decimated generations and criminalized millions for a behavior which is entwined in human existence, and for what other purpose than to uphold the defunct and corrupt thinking of a minority of misguided, self-righteous Neo-Puritans and degenerate demagogues who wish nothing but unadulterated destruction on the rest of us.
Based on the unalterable proviso that drug use is essentially an unstoppable and ongoing human behavior which has been with us since the dawn of time, any serious reading on the subject of past attempts at any form of drug prohibition would point most normal thinking people in the direction of sensible regulation.
By its very nature, prohibition cannot fail but create a vast increase in criminal activity, and rather than preventing society from descending into anarchy, it actually fosters an anarchic business model – the international Drug Trade. Any decisions concerning quality, quantity, distribution and availability are then left in the hands of unregulated, anonymous, ruthless drug dealers, who are interested only in the huge profits involved.
Many of us have now, finally, wised up to the fact that the best avenue towards realistically dealing with drug use and addiction is through proper regulation which is what we already do with alcohol & tobacco, clearly two of our most dangerous mood altering substances. But for those of you whose ignorant and irrational minds traverse a fantasy plane of existence, you will no doubt remain sorely upset with any type of solution that does not seem to lead to the absurd and unattainable utopia of a drug free society.
There is an irrefutable connection between drug prohibition and the crime, corruption, disease and death it causes. If you are not capable of understanding this connection then maybe you’re using something far stronger than the rest of us. Anybody ‘halfway bright’, and who’s not psychologically challenged, should be capable of understanding that it is not simply the demand for drugs that creates the mayhem, it is our refusal to allow legal businesses to meet that demand.
No amount of money, police powers, weaponry, diminution of rights and liberties, wishful thinking or pseudo-science will make our streets safer, only an end to prohibition can do that. How much longer are you willing to foolishly risk your own survival by continuing to ignore the obvious, historically confirmed solution?
If you still support the kool aid mass suicide cult of prohibition, and erroneously believe that you can win a war without logic and practical solutions, then prepare yourself for even more death, corruption, terrorism, sickness, imprisonment, unemployment, foreclosed homes, and the complete loss of the rule of law and the Bill of Rights.
“A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
Abraham Lincoln
The only thing prohibition successfully does is prohibit regulation & taxation while turning even our schools and prisons into black markets for drugs. Regulation would mean the opposite!
what a fool the guy above