Should drugs be legalized!?

[funkyab 10+ year member]

Just mirror the policy of the Netherlands. Works out just fine over there.

 

[KyleBechtold 5,000+ posts]

See I don't believe that at all. I don't think the government would be able to touch the pricing that the drug cartels would lower it too. I think we would just buy directly from them.

the government has much more potent ish.. and would be able to produce much more faster better cheaper

 

[alxmlr789 10+ year member]

No, people are far too irresponsible in this country for drugs to be legalized.

 

[-Leister- 10+ year member]

Yes they should legalized

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

Just mirror the policy of the Netherlands. Works out just fine over there.

Works fine....if you are a heathen. I don't want our country to be known as the disney land of drugs and hookers

 

[smalltown 10+ year member]

My teachers claim is this:
Drugs should be legal so we can tax them. By taxing them we could make a potential billions of dollars every year. Right now we have 2.5 million people in prisons on drug related offenses. This is more then any other country has, period. It costs an average of $35,000 a year to hold someone in a jail cell. By taxing drugs we could use the tax money to open TONS of rehad clinics to help the people that it effects and then pay doctors and staff, etc. This will also help us make more money as we won't be paying tons of dollars to keep people in jail and there would also be WAY more crime. There won't be as many gang wars over territory and so forth. Then this whole thing with Mexico would vanish in a day he says.

What do you think of that?

The government already controls drugs through the pharmaceutical giants. As in prescription drugs. Rather than curing a patient with a medication, they would rather keep a revenue stream going by giving patients something that only provides temporary results. They are basically pimps. So as far as giving the government even more control, I would have to disagree. There are good arguments for both sides, but I say keep them illegal for moral and ethical reasons.

 

[Echo42987 10+ year member]

The government already controls drugs through the pharmaceutical giants. As in prescription drugs. Rather than curing a patient with a medication, they would rather keep a revenue stream going by giving patients something that only provides temporary results. They are basically pimps. So as far as giving the government even more control, I would have to disagree. There are good arguments for both sides, but I say keep them illegal for moral and ethical reasons.

Yeah we aren't a moral and or ethical country.....

 

[Kicker Guy 10+ year member]

I don't think the average person is smart enough for drugs to be legal

agreed

 

[funkyab 10+ year member]

Works fine....if you are a heathen. I don't want our country to be known as the disney land of drugs and hookers

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Netherlands is an absolutely wonderful place to live.

It is 8 points above us in the Human Development index

High Human

Development

1. Iceland

2. Norway

3. Canada

4. Australia

5. Ireland

6. Netherlands

7. Sweden

8. Japan

9. Luxembourg

10. Switzerland

11. France

12. Finland

13. Denmark

14. Austria

15. United States

16. Spain

And 14 higher on the Unit index of Democracy

1 Sweden 9.88 Full democracy

2 Norway 9.68 Full democracy

3 Iceland 9.65 Full democracy

4 Netherlands 9.53 Full democracy

5 Denmark 9.52 Full democracy

6 Finland 9.25 Full democracy

7 New Zealand 9.19 Full democracy

8 Switzerland 9.15 Full democracy

9 Luxembourg 9.10 Full democracy

10 Australia 9.09 Full democracy

11 Canada 9.07 Full democracy

12 Ireland 9.01 Full democracy

13 Germany 8.82 Full democracy

14 Austria 8.49 Full democracy

15 Spain 8.45 Full democracy

16 Malta 8.39 Full democracy

17 Japan 8.25 Full democracy

18 United States 8.22 Full democracy

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[smalltown 10+ year member]

Besides, all drugs aren't created equal.

 

[stocker08 10+ year member]

Legalizing crack and cocaine is a laugh.

Legalizing weed.......absolutely.

 

[Propimp 10+ year member]

Works fine....if you are a heathen. I don't want our country to be known as the disney land of drugs and hookers

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[GreenBook 10+ year member]

Pot yeah, they might as well legalize and tax it. People who do harder drugs that like to toke up just might quit their harder stuff for the cheaper legal weed.

As for hard stuff like crack heroin and meth; I've seen 1st hand what they do to people and it isn't pretty. If they legalized hard stuff when a poor user goes broke and wants to get high, they'll just steal or pawn stuff they own, do whatever they can to come up with some money. It'd just turn our government into one giant cartel instead of the privately owned cartels. They'd have to fight for control of the industry just like oil.

Legalizing hallucinogens would instantly cause a resurgence in hippies, and no one wants that. Our countries park system would be ruined.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

no to all.

too many dumb ***** as it is running around the US.

yes the gov will benefit from tax, but the increase in crime will just offset that. Who knows what else would result from drugs being legalized.

abuse, homicide, suicides, heavy machinery accidents, theft/crime, ca.com... etc.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

that teacher must be republican.