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Originally Posted by flamesfever
I think society would pay a price for condoning something like pot.
With traffic increasing with time, why would you want more pot smokers behind the wheel?
With health care costs out of control, why would you want something that has a potential detrimental affect on people's health?
With a crying need for a highly educated, skilled, and motivated work force, why would you want something that has the potential to negatively affect those attributes.
I witnessed drugs, including pot, having a deleterious affect on a whole generation of kids growing up in the 60's and 70's. A large number were permanently f'd up, and simply bowed out of mainstream society.
If I was raising kids these days, I would definately warn them about the dangers of using drugs, including pot.
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This is where the real world and the ideal world come into conflict. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your individual perspective, drug use is going to happen regardless of what anyone tries to do. This is evidenced by them finding drugs that are 2000 years old. It's going to be there no matter what anyone does to try to inhibit it.
The best way to address the issue is to find what is the best and least destructive method, and put it in place. The best one I can see is to legalize it, and to make things like safe injection sites available to those that need them. At those sites, have info for those that want to get away from drugs, but otherwise do not interfere. I know that doesn't seem like the best way to fix the problem, but there really isn't a better way that doesn't needlessly destroy lives (making it illegal and prosecuting people for using).