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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
So you want to legalize crack which is incredibly destructive both physically and mentally and Meth, and these other incredibly nasty drugs?
Yes you can make the argument that liquor and cigarettes are destructive but these drugs are far more addictive and destructive on a whole.
I can't think of a worse idea. I'm fine with legalizing grass as long as its regulated and taxed to the highest levels and taken out of the hands of the gangs.
But legalizing something like crack that addicts you and destroys you in the first use is kinda stupid.
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Sure, why not? We havent tried it before. We only know prohibition, and we know it doesn't work.
Lets try putting the money used in a piss-poor attempt at stopping it towards better education, and better rehabilitation.
Lets try making these drugs legal, so the government can control what's in them. In the sense that the government can be certain the purity, thus inhibiting dealers cutting drugs with worse things.
Lets try taking the biggest market out from underneath gangs. Cutting most of the heads off the snake. Removing territory.
Lets try taking fear of being arrested from drug users, possibily eliminating assaults on officers and EMS professionals as a result.
Why not try? What have we got to lose? Do you think more people will do drugs if they're legal? I doubt it. Kids have easier access to heroin than they do cigarettes. Any child willing can go to a highschool drug dealer and get what they want if they have enough money. The same kids will do so even if it's legal and regulated, but at least it won't be cut with more of a harmful substance.
Lets try cutting the amount of dirty needles used by heroin/meth/crack addicts, inhibiting the transmission of AIDS and Hep.
Seriously. We KNOW prohibition hasn't worked. Why do we still try an old approach to the same problem? Society will keep on, so lets think outside, lets try something new. Legalization won't be the end of the world. Employers will still have standards. But at least rehabilitation will treat people as addicts and not necessarily criminals (definite grey area, we can get into that later if you'd like.)
Lastly; if drugs are legal, then people will be less inclined to make ####ty drugs that circumvent the law and cause cannibalism. If drugs were legal, there would be no need for these bath salts. Im sure people would use them, but there will always be people that abuse something beyond their capacity of reason thereby ruining theirs and somebody elses life. Legal or not.
Maybe it's the wrong idea, but at least it's trying something different.