Should drugs be legalized!?

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

veto

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

The means to acquire the drug(s): I don't see how legalization would remove that burden. Legal or not, those drugs will still cost money.

It doesn't add to that burden, either. And we can better manage long-term demand reduction.

 

[chardy85 10+ year member]

I am not going to read through the whole post but has anyone mentioned Pen and Teller's Bullshit?

I think they were proposing on just making everything legal including hard drugs so that the real losers would sooner or later just die off and it would save the country alot of money I suppose.

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

I am not going to read through the whole post but has anyone mentioned Pen and Teller's Bullshit?
I think they were proposing on just making everything legal including hard drugs so that the real losers would sooner or later just die off and it would save the country alot of money I suppose.

New losers are created everyday

 

[chardy85 10+ year member]

New losers are created everyday

lol

touche'

I am not saying I agree either way, I am just throwing the idea out......not that it hasn't been brought up before.

Pen and Teller have alot of good points.

 

[RE_XXX]

I think it would be rather funny if drugs were made legal.

All the big drug lords in the world would go broke due to enterprises growing there own drugs in america... and think about the size of the farms they will have!!! Price of a bowl will drop by 90%.

You will be taxed on the drug, if you buy from a company, all the ghettos would be in turmoil due to no income... and just like cigarrettes.... it would go under over time..

 

[chardy85 10+ year member]

My cousin once said we should just set up tents with free Crack, Heroin, and Meth.

Just let all the addicts serve themselves until they OD.

You would think that the whole monkey see monkey do thing would catch on after a while and a lot of people would just decide not to do the shit.

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

Intelligent contributing members of society should be able to put whatever the **** they want in their own bodies.

I am not going to read through the whole post but has anyone mentioned Pen and Teller's Bullshit?
I think they were proposing on just making everything legal including hard drugs so that the real losers would sooner or later just die off and it would save the country alot of money I suppose.

This too, were in pretty bad need of a stupid cleansing. So many dumbasses overpopulating and screwing up the world for those who actually do something with their lives.

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

pot:yes everything else:no

this right here...

and why another thread?

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

not all people are equal either. One drug can have different affects on two different people.

This includes alcohol, coffee, and cough medicine. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

do enough acid and it probably will.

Again more baseless rhetoric. Doing too much acid will, obviously, rot your brain. As would alcohol. Drinking too much coffee long term can affect your heart rate, anxiety.. can lead to birth defects and will make you display withdrawl symptoms if you quit. Should we outlaw caffeine? Ive seen plenty of caffeine zombies on college campuses.
No drug will make a person evil. If you disagree with this, we have fundamental difference in our views.

too bad you can't be labeled as temporarily insane when you're driving a corvette or a hummer

You can be labeled this with alcohol... fined, jailed, lose your license, etc. But when we discuss other drugs, the only option is make them completely illegal. Apparently we as a society are willing to deal with the consequences and impact of societal drinking, but not other forms of drugs. That's fine, but then dont pretend there is a difference. The difference is arbitrary. A political line in the sand that you want to justify on some logistical level.
And the corvette example was in reference to your rebuttal that drugs should be illegal because people will commit crimes to acquire them. The corvette example was to show you that something should not be criminalized because its the motive for an actual crime. When someone steals from you to buy something, is the purchased item considered the problem? Only if the purchased item is drugs. If its baby toys or a new car, only the crime/theft itself is considered. Political propaganda, rise above it.

Alcohol should be illegal too. If you can't even drive "under the influence," then it's probably a bad influence.

I guess cell phones should be illegal too, then. And ***. I cant talk on one, or engage in the other, while driving... if that is your measuring stick for what constitutes morally or legally acceptable.
Where do prescribed drugs you cant use while driving fit into your plan? Bad influence, right?

 

[MAY03TBLT 10+ year member]

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

voted no, same reason

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

voted no, same reason

Use would not likely increase, so that point is moot.

 

[chardy85 10+ year member]

Some People are going to do what they want weather it be illegal or not.

Same with using automatic weapons.

 

[S10DRVR 10+ year member]

Our average smarts are low as it is...:/ why the hell would we make it that much easier?

 

[maximpakt 10+ year member]

As someone who is not a drug user I think that possession of anything should not be a crime. If you steal or rob or commit any type of crime where there is a victim then the penalties for that should be severe. As long as they don't commit crimes let them do whatever they want to do in the privacy of their own home and thin out the gene pool. It should not be legal in public just as you cant run around with a bottle in public in most places. As a business owner if I want to test and deny you employment based on it I should have that right just as I should be able to not hire you if you are a drinker or a cigarette smoker.