Why We Should Legalize Drugs

[Joemailman]

Smokers should travel with drinkers. That way if a smoker starts a fire, the drinker can relieve himself by putting it out.

[MadtownPacker]

So, if pot was legalized, it still wouldn't start fires? Is a cigarette more likely to start a fire then a joint? Are cigarettes more of a fire risk? They're both lit by fire. I don't see how there is a difference.

As expected you are missing the point. IMO there is no more danger to allowing someone to smoke weed then there is to smoking cigs yet it is illegal. Why is that? $$$ thats why.

FYI - A cig does stay lit much longer then a joint. I think you can even leave a cig lit from the start and it will burn all the way with minimal wind. A joint usually self extinguishes in a matter of seconds so yes a cig would be more of a fire risk. I guess cig smokers are careless with there shit since they dont smoke the butts. You wont catch me throwing anything from my car much less something that is one fire.

[Tarlam!]

What Mad is saying has cred. It only ads to what I am saying!

The only people getting rich by the Goverments of the world banning drugs are the bad guys.

The only people getting hurt are the addicts and their vicitms -whether the victims be robbery vicitms, murder victims, accident victims or hell - squirrels burned by forest fires!

Legalize all drugs and deal with the addicts properly. If cops weren't hunting petty users that rob to pay for their habit, think of what crimes they could be solving!

[packinpatland]

Think of how many crimes there may not be.

[Tarlam!]

Think of how many crimes there may not be.

So, are you for or against the proposal to legalize ALL drugs?

[Mazzin]

Just the sweet sticky greeny greena!

[packinpatland]

I do think pot should be legalized.

Not so for the other 'manufactured' drugs.

[BallHawk]

I can understand legalizing pot.

However, no way you can legalize drugs like cocaine and meth. Those drugs ruin peoples live. Have you seen what meth does to people? It destroys their lives and their bodies. There's no way you can justify legalizing that.

[Tarlam!]

People, alchohol and nicotine ruin people's lives.

I am not suggesting we do this for the benefit of the user. I am suggesting this for the detriment of the supplyer!

In no way do I accept or approve of drug taking.

[oregonpackfan]

However, no way you can legalize drugs like cocaine and meth. Those drugs ruin peoples live. Have you seen what meth does to people? It destroys their lives and their bodies. There's no way you can justify legalizing that.[/quote]

Meth also has devastating effects on the community where the user lives. Meth users often have to break into homes and steal goods from others. Then fence the goods for money to buy more meth.

Children of meth users are often neglected to the point of needing removal from home by social service agencies.

I would not want to see meth and other drugs legalized.

[MadtownPacker]

I agree, no legalizing meth or even coke. It is way to crazy and leads to everything you guys mentioned. Especially meth. Some coke abusers can at least maintain themselves for a while but tweakers start not giving a shit about themselves and it gets ugly fast.

The legal system needs a better way to deal with it then throwing addicts in jail. All they do is get worse and get violent from being incarcerated. All this counseling crap doesn't work so maybe a state like Nevada that has a lot of space should have a ton of factories and military style bunker where drug offenders are made to work and work hard until they sweat all that shit out of their brains.

I know it will never happen but it should.

[Tarlam!]

I would not want to see meth and other drugs legalized.

OK. You'd prefer the current non-system, I guess? The same non-system that made Al Capone rich?

I am not pro drugs!

THIS SYSTEM IS NOT WORKING!

People are getting robbed and killed due to this system. Innocent people. Take away the illegality of drugs and what do gangs actually do after that? Guard their "turf"?

Take away the platform for the criminals. Exercise influence over it. Control it. Rule it.

Take out the bad guys, and the good guys will win. Or, equip the good guys with bad guy weapons, and watch them become bad guys.

We need to make some hard choices.

[falco]

I agree, no legalizing meth or even coke. It is way to crazy and leads to everything you guys mentioned. Especially meth. Some coke abusers can at least maintain themselves for a while but tweakers start not giving a shit about themselves and it gets ugly fast.

The legal system needs a better way to deal with it then throwing addicts in jail. All they do is get worse and get violent from being incarcerated. All this counseling crap doesn't work so maybe a state like Nevada that has a lot of space should have a ton of factories and military style bunker where drug offenders are made to work and work hard until they sweat all that shit out of their brains.

I know it will never happen but it should.

I agree with you especially on that point madtown; if we aren't going to legalize drugs, lets start looking at addiction as a sickness rather than a crime, and start working to rehabilitate people.

[Tarlam!]

I agree, no legalizing meth or even coke. It is way to crazy and leads to everything you guys mentioned. Especially meth.

I know what you're trying to say, but the platform remains. It's that bad guys that remain with this strategy. And, it's the poor farmers that will keep planting the crops, because illegal coke brings in more than legal wheat.

The cycle will not break until we take away the platform.

[Tarlam!]

.....lets start looking at addiction as a sickness rather than a crime, and start working to rehabilitate people.

Tht's real nobel, and I admire you for it. But I have another idea that I know won't appeal to you, but is cheap and will solve the problem.

Let's NOT do all of what you said; let's not rehab druggies. Let's give them their stuff till they die of natural causes. Let's not involve really really expensive therapies. Let's accet they are today's lepers, put them into the most comfortable environment they can be in on taxpayers' money and wait for them to expire.

Let's take their children and put them into solid foster homes. Pro-actively. Let's teach the offspring of crack-heads, it's not their fault their parents failed.

Let's look drugs in the eye and remove the platform for growth, once and for all.