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Originally Posted by peter12
There is evidence that if supply were opened up to more hard drugs, the demand would increase significantly.
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See this is the problem I have with this, in most cases yes a slight increase occurs because of legalization.
However if you today decide heroin or cocaine are to be legalized, you won't just wake up the day after legalization and say "HEY lets go do heroin and coke."
I've been in this drug debate for 10yrs, and I've heard mostly from the pro drug groups because of my own website and its movement, but I certainly think at minnimum Marijuana and Mushrooms should be legalized and taxed.
The tougher arguments start at cocaine, but really the tough part is Heroin and Meth.
However we currently legalize Heroin, Oxycontin is a VERY powerful drug and its legal. Its also highly addictive.
But the problem I have is its legal and heroin isn't. One is supported by regular doctor exams/advice while the other is not.
The old adage marijuana is a gateway drug has been repeatedly destroyed as an argument, because if that was valid, milk or beer could be also claimed to be 'gateways' to harder drugs.
So my problem is we allow MASSIVE profits to drug cartels, while spending MASSIVE amounts on the fight against them.
We will not remove drug use from society.
We will not have a drug war stop unless we legalize it.
We will not see non drug users all of a sudden decide, oh its legal? lets go do heroin.
So my problem is that drug war is morality war, its taking away TONS of money we could use in our health care system, education, or absolutely anything else.
Lets at least legalize marijuana and mushrooms, move on from there. Eventually we remove 80-90% of the criminal gangs of the world and legalize all of it under government controls.
That seems the most logical way to go, I've not heard a good reason to keep up this losing fight, we did figure out Vietnam wasn't winnable and we left, why do we keep up a war against personal choice in drugs when its obvious its always going to fail.