4031 Intensify the War on Drugs? - Call In Show - March 14th, 2018

Question 1: [2:58] – “My wife and I have been trying for 5 years and have had 4 surgeries, 4 miscarriages and one failed IVF attempt ($50,000 total expense). I'm listening to one of your call-in-shows right now and Stef is having a rant about Westerners having babies. I want a person to raise. I also badly want my wife to be a mother. Adoption is anywhere between $35,000-50,000. I'm at a fork in the road right now ('m 40 years old and she is 37). Do we try to go for adoption?”Question 2: [1:01:08] – “Whenever the idea of marriage or longer-term relationships is discussed among my circles, the saying ‘people change over time’ continually crosses my mind and makes me wonder how people can commit to someone they don't really know. Sure they may know the person today, who they are, what their values are, what they want out of life, goals, ambitions, values, family goals, etc. etc. but acknowledging the idea that people change over time, I'm left kind of puzzled at the prospect of commitment to who that person will be tomorrow, the day after, the year after or ten years down the line. How can you commit to someone 10 years down the line, when not only do you not know who they're going to be by that time, but you don't know who you yourself are going to be?”Question 3: [1:24:08] - “In studying the drug epidemic, I've realized that the black market for drugs for exhibits the same market characteristics of any other commodity market. It's my view that if illicit drugs become prohibitively expensive, their use (i.e. demand) will fall precipitously. To make this case we needn't think it terms of hypotheticals, just look at the way the DEA stopped the quaalude crisis. Our country had a real problem with quaaludes when the drug cost 25 cents a hit in the 70's and early 80's. By investigating and shutting down the supply centers, the price of quaaludes rose to over $250/pill and the number of quaalude addicts (and deaths and injuries) fell to almost zero. We should take a similar approach to the drugs that currently plague our society.”Question 4: [2:37:15] – “I'm a 20-year-old man. When I was but a few days old I was circumcised, too much skin was removed, and the cuts were too deep. As a result I am bound as a man today who can't have sex with a woman or achieve orgasm (severe neurological damage). I feel embarrassed, ashamed, inadequate, violated and angry beyond comprehension. The 14th amendment’s equal protection under the law clause (yes the one the courts used to legalize gay marriage) says I, or any other male should have been protected from genital cutting since females are LEGALLY protected from it. I'd like to bring awareness to what an absolutely pernicious and repulsive practice it is, and how it's personally made me want to end my life. I'd like to finally talk about it anonymously, to try and leave this horrible anger behind.”Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate