Should all drugs be legalized?
Offline How's that for a question, eh? Personally I think drugs should be legalized and placed into stores, but why? Well, my prediction to such a circumstance would be that it would reduce most if not ALL drug related crimes. A downfall however, would be that upon legalization there would be a burst of people wanting drugs, but I would predict this would come to a slow down in further years for I've come to an opinion that most drug users are merely doing it to disobey the law, the rest do it because of an addiction. I understand that's quite a radical assumption, but we all have our own opinions. Anyway, here's a list of pros and cons for people like me who are lazy and want to get to the chase.
Pros:
- Murder would be greatly reduced
- Imprisoning for drug abuse will be abolished
- The economy will be greatly helped (money spent housing and feeding "thugs" will be reduced, also drug money would help)
- For all we know people may be over all happier
Cons:
- The number of rapes may be increased increasing murder from what it has reduced to (date rape drugs)
- Many people will become addicted to such drugs upon legalization (which may prove harmless)
- Drug related deaths are more likely to occur
My opinion is my own, I'd like to hear your opinions on this, are you for legalized drugs? Or against them?
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Hmm, well, pot is still legal in Holland, but they're actually doing a little backpedaling on that subject, or so I've heard. And not because of any significant increase in crime or addiction.
No, it's because of traffic problems.
Just imagine, it's the start of the weekend, and every pothead from every other european country gets in his car and heads for your border. There were just too many of them.
Date rape drugs would still be illegal.
Why would that be? Why would legal drugs be any deadlier or more prevalent than the illegal drugs that our society is flooded with?
Why would they be addicted because of legalization? If they desire drugs, then they can access them now. I don't believe that legalization would make drug use more prevalent or increase the number of addicts.
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British General Charles Napier while in India
You make some good points, although I believe there will be a rush of people buying drugs upon legalization, hence leaving many people addicted and eventually dying a drug related death, all your other points seem fully logical.
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Legalized, yeah. Free... even better, via a totally socialized medical system.
BTW. Same goes for syringes, hypos, and condoms for kids to reduce spread of AIDS.
Buyer beware... if purchased w/o a Script, as per law suits.
Wait... what was the downside again? Weak humans die'ing you say? More plz!
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I think when you have such a complex moral issue with both pro's and con's its best to ask the Catholic Church its opinion on the matter then you can take the exact opposite view and know there is a fair chance you have done the right thing
If you use the search function you will find this question has been asked several times in the past few months. I find it interesting how many people are worried about what will probably never happen. I think it's only a matter of time before pot is made legal, mainly because it is no worse for you than alcohol or tobacco. Other drugs have severe health risks and will probably never be legal.
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Stewie: Yay and God said to Abraham, "you will kill your son, Issak", and Abraham said, I can't hear you, you'll have to speak into the microphone." "Oh I'm sorry, Is this better? Check, check, check... Jerry, pull the high end out, I'm still getting some hiss back here."
It's a completely reasonable question, but everything always boils down to this; freedom or safety? We, although in a democracy have many rights prohibited, some even stated in the constitution(I kind of worded that strange, I mean some rights in the constitution are prohibited). Our pledge of allegiance is showing our respect to hypocrisy, why is that? Although our country is over 200 years old we still need to patch some things up. Take the FCC for example; censoring television? That's a violation of the first amendment and should be abolished forthwith. Just because it is on a screen it makes it right to censor? We might as well send people to jail for yelling "Fuck!" in the streets.
Just a side note: I don't do drugs and don't plan to but we should at least have the right to.
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Can't go wrong there.
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Just for clarity ...
Are you referring to legal
or illegal drugs?
No one should go to jail for possessing any drugs unless there is a suspicion that they may be used for other non-drug related crimes.
Thats not to say every drug should be legalised, just take each drug examine the cost to the user but more importantly the cost to society as a whole, examine the cost of restricting it and make a rational non-moralistic decision on the subject.
The illegal ones should be.
I don't know how you envision legalizing drugs that are already legal.
Duh! They'll be twice as legal!
''Black Holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.''
Would that mean I could get the twice legal drugs w/o a script?
Well, the vast majority of drugs may as well be legalized (cannabis, coccaine and ecstasy come to mind) because of the ease of access to them even while illegal and the dubiousness of claims surrounding their impact on the health of the user (particularly in comparison to legalized narcotics like tobacco and alcohol).
However... I've caved to the notion that some drugs are likely best left illegal (heroine and methamphetamine come to mind) because the detrimental health effects are much more obvious and their ability to make their users much more susceptible to outbursts of violence is much more obvious. Granted, keeping the 'bad' drugs illegal would not prevent people from using or selling them, but I think if we eased-up on the 'okay' drugs we would find that use of the really harmful substances would scale back considerably as they become percieved more as a fringe activity.
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