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Old 06-05-2012, 09:55 AM   #32
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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.
With Crack and heroin its not about controlling what's in them, at their nature they're incredibly addictive drugs, and with both its pretty well one shot and you're hooked. And hooked for life, with Crystal Meth even in its purest cleanest form it simply rots you from the inside out and hooks you quickly.

In no way shape or form should those drugs be made legal or easily available.

And if you think that the underground drug trade would simply go away if you legalizzed it your fooling yourself. Those gangs wouldn't throw up their arms and say "Oh well" the governments in, we're out, lets go back to running shady moving companies and construction firms. they'd find a way to make their drugs slightly cheaper then the government and far more addictive.

We are not dealing with a european drug trade here, we're dealing with a far different model based on criminal gangs the likes that Europe has never seen. They're ruthless, they're every where they're well run and they're saavy and they're greedy.

I'm all for legalizing soft drugs if its done in a appropriate manner (Put them in liquor stores, nobody under 18 can legally buy them, and you take the crap out of them). But the harder drugs, no chance should they be legalized.

If you want to fight a war on drugs, you destroy the distribution channels, be incredibly hard on the manufactureres and distributors and do more to help the addicts then throw your hands up in the air and simply give them the needles to kill themselves.
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