im curious as to what other peoples opinions are. i am a firm believer that the war on drugs is something that will never be won, and it is a complete waste of time and money.
if you make drugs legal, the supply will go up. the cost will go down, you will have less violence over money, less junkies stealing shit from people, be paying less salaries to law enforcement, completely get rid of the DEA, and let them do the real job of catching legit bad guys, you know, like scumbags that like to fuck children. less non-violent offenders in jail. lab testing companies could spend more time on important shit like curing cancer, not doing thousands of parolees tox screens that the tax payers pay for (oh, you didnt know that?? $700 a pop, 100% paid by medicare, aka us, lovely isnt it?)
i also think you would be hard pressed to find someone that would go out and shoot heroin the day it became legal, simply because it is legal.
cut out the middle man, save an obscene amount of money, lower taxes like woah, let the junkies have the cheap drugs that they would be doing anyway
Pot fine, definitely should be legalized but higher end stuff like LSD and cocaine no way. The addiction is far too strong and making it legal would just result in giving more people the opportunity to try it and get hooked.
Instead we need to get serious about this “war” and start attacking the sources instead of the middle men and end users. You can’t tell me with the satellite surveillance tech we have today we can’t spot these major drug cartel operations. Tell their host nations where they are and if they’re not raided within 24 hours send in a couple cruise missiles.
I’m all for legalization of marijuana. I myself have never smoked it…but FUCK…if they would legalize the shit think of the economy boost…
Farmers could grow it as a cash crop
the government could have it’s own dispensaries and tax the sales of pot for moar profitsssss
drug testing for jobs would become obsolete because pot is the only drug that shows up after like 24hrs. the rest leave your system too fast (wierd I know, cuase the others are WAY worse drugs)
there’d be way more laid back people out there lol
As for the other drugs, definitely should not be legalized…it would open too many doors. But I do agree the war on drugs is never going to be run and will continue to waste time and money, unless they can kill it at it’s source. I mean, the only benefit to making the other drugs legal is that it would weed out alot of the idiots in society that get hooked and end themselves via overdose. which would be their own fault and I would feel no remorse for them. I forget which country it is that legalized all drugs and the usade went down DRAMATICALLY, they don’t punish you for doing drugs, and they actually provide government funded rehab programs if you go into a police station and voice the desire to get clean.
Yeah, I’m not sure if the whole legalize pot group has thought this through enough. “Yay, it’s legal now. What the fuck, why does it cost 50x more now?”
We did a fucking case study on this, it was called prohibition. It didn’t work for fuck all and made for some seriously rich and powerful violent criminals. Yet we act all flustered and surprised that the same thing is happening with other drugs now.
Legalize everything. Regulate it. Tax the fuck out of it. Come down on drug-money-fueled gangs with all the might of pfizer. Put mexican drug cartels out of business. Put Al Qaeda out of business. Let Americans grow a cash crop that’s worth more than corn, which we have so much of it’s making us sick and we’re burning it for fuel since we can’t eat it all.
But no we’re a country of stupid fucking puritans. Can’t have a safer planet and a stronger economy. Someone might get high. Because, you know, keeping it illegal keeps people from doing it.
Meh. I am fine letting people do what they choose. Heroin and Cocaine can be legal but I still will choose not to do it. My only issue is someone tweaking out more frequently or becoming addicted, society will want to help them and make me pay for their treatment.
Depends on the classification of the drug in my opinion. Legalizing highly physically addictive drugs is super dangerous. Drugs like methanphetamine are shown to make people VERY crazy, delusion, paranoid and dangerous as well as being extremely harmful to the body. On top of that, it’s a physical addiction. When you go off of it, your body goes through withdrawal and it can actually be extremely dangerous. Pot on the other hand has been shown NOT to be physically addictive, and in most cases has an effect/high that is similar in ways to drinking alcohol. Lung cancer is probably a concern with pot smoking, but even that is on par with already legal cigarettes.
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Last thing we need as a country is more people without health insurance in the ER on detox…Good Point
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Last thing we need as a country is more people without health insurance in the ER on detox…Good Point
^ Exactly. Saying legalize everything because we should have learned our lesson from alcohol prohibition is very short sighted. Yes, there are people addicted to alcohol but it has no where near the addiction levels of heroine. I’ve watched a family member with a heroine addiction spiral out of control, finally hitting rock bottom with a robbery arrest to feed his habit. This was after multiple stints at rehab.
As much as I’m against illicit drugs I agree with Fry. The core of the problem is our society steeped in puritanical roots. If you make it legal then you remove a lot of mysticism, sure people will do it anyway but it won’t be as much of a problem as it is now. Regulate it, tax it. It may get to the point where you have very large pharmaceutical companies making it. That just means that these drugs won’t be laced with draino, cut with glass or made with other real toxins or by products. In essence a purer drug.
No matter what people will result to getting high if that’s what they choose. Hell, there is a new fad out where people shit into a bottle and put a balloon over it and inhale the methane from the balloon. I shit you not. No pun intended.
The fact also is that Portugal did de-criminalize ALL drugs and the abuse rates dropped as well as the deaths.
This taken from Wikipedia, I’m sure more can be found online but I’m not doing the work.
Portugal has arguably the most liberal laws concerning possession of illicit drugs in the Western world. In 2001 Portugal decriminalized possession of effectively all drugs that are still illegal in other developed nations including, but not limited to, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and LSD. While possession is legal, trafficking and possession of more than “10 days worth of personal use” are still punishable by jail time and fines. People caught with small amounts of any drug are given the choice to go to a rehab facility, and may refuse treatment without consequences. Despite criticism from other European nations, who stated Portugal’s drug consumption would tremendously increase, overall drug use rose only slightly, whilst use among teenagers dropped, along with the number of HIV infection cases, which had dropped 50% by 2009.[27][28]
This social experiment shows that prohibition does not work. Do I like the idea of someone using heroin and then operating a bulldozer. No. Does that mean that the legal status is going to stop someone from using heroin and operating a bulldozer? No. The fact is that many prescription drugs are more powerful and more addicting than most illicit drugs and recent studies show they are abused MORE.
Legalize it, Purify it, Regulate it, Tax it. Balanced budget.
For the record. I have never done a drug in my life and do not plan on it.
The more they try to regulate, the bigger the profit and crime stemming from the underground. Look at prohibition and how well that worked. People want to do what they are told not to…it’s human nature (except during election times LOL).
Taxing and making it legal for the government to profit off people poisoning themselves is rather twisted though, I must say.
Not 100% sure what the answer is but I don’t think this is it.
There will never be a balanced budget within the current system, it’s not part of the design. Taxing the working poor is a lose/lose proposition for the economy…think about it.
Do you really think the rich will turn into users & junkies? Because that’s where the money is being hoarded. Trickle down your leg economics = failboat!
