Nobody suffers like the poor people suffer:DQuote:
Originally Posted by eddievanzant
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Nobody suffers like the poor people suffer:DQuote:
Originally Posted by eddievanzant
dai*ma:stoned:
As an anarchist, my position on this should be obvious. I think all drugs should be completely legal, including heroin and crystal meth. Quite frankly, I'm surprised at how many pot users actually support prohibition.
First of all, we have to realize that tons of people really love to get high. There is no way around that. As long as people enjoy experimenting with states of consciousness, there will be people making these drugs and consuming them, regardless of what the law says. Drug laws are useless, since non-users don't need to be coerced into not doing what they're not going to do anyways, and drug users just don't care what the law says.
To think that you can actually rid the world of these substances (for example by making the coca plant extinct) is extremely naïve. Even if it were a desirable goal to render a species extinct, it could never be done. The government has been trying hard for decades but there are too many millions of users who are very interested in keeping these plants alive.
Thus there are two options for society. Either we keep these substances circulating in a black market (where the only means of resolving conflicts is violence), or we open them up to markets under the scrutiny of the public. We can either let drug addicts rot their lives away in shadowy alleys, or we can arrange it so that they can freely admit to everybody that they have a problem without being kidnapped and kept in a cage. We can either educate them on the safest ways to take their drugs and dispense heroin in sanitary needles, or we can banish them from mainstream society and let them get AIDS. At the same time, we can educate the public on the relative dangers of the drugs instead of just branding all illegal drugs as just evil, wicked products of Satan, and anybody who wants to avoid those dangers will freely choose to do that. What option do you think is going to cause the most harm?
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/...owse-2705.html
Every victim of the War on Drugs should watch that video. In it, Penn and Teller entertainingly show how all drug prohibition is bullshit.
:smokin: LEGALIZATION! OF WEED! Why the fuck do you need anything else? I am all for it and any other drug doesent compair. Not to this lady. Nope.
Should drugs be legalized?
In a way, yes and no. Depends on the substance. But I do believe in the true American way of life and that is simply freedom - wish Bush understood that too :P. There are many substances that I don't like, and I'll never try them. But it's because I've done my research and found out what they are and what they contain. Unfortunately, during school, all one hears is drugs are bad and they kill you. If they were to actually teach what each drug is, what they do, how it affects ya, and keep a neutral view on it, I believe less people would be doing the nasty stuff.
Should cannabis be legal? Hell yea it should be! This world has no right to say that cannabis is illegal while smoking cigs. which is, by far, more dangerous, since they contain only a small amount of tobacco and a ton of crap. Some know the only reason cannabis is illegal because it can be an expensive investment for the government. Imagine, cannabis is legal - no more $60 an 1/8 crap, since everyone can grow it at home, like any other plant. Also there would be less of a chance for someone to accidently get some other substance that could kill them, or injure them.
Should other drugs be legal? Well imagine this: if all drugs were legal, the chances of getting an unknown substance is less since it'll probably be available like any other drug in the pharmacy (which by FDA standards has to be pure). It's funny how individuals tell us that the over-the-counter drugs are different. They're not! I've seen so many people taking Xanax, which is some scary stuff, or individuals living off Advil everyday. If advil or xanax was illegal, these people would be looked upon as drug addicts, lol.
As I mentioned before, we're in a free country, although it isn't really practiced as much anymore with the stupid pointless war going on, so if someone chooses to take drugs, it's their life, their choice. At least if it was legal, they'll be getting a pure version and not some poison on the street. Also by drugs being legal, it'll destroy the black-market since it'll be available to all - therefore cheaper. Teach your children what they are and what they do and they'll say no not because they were taught to say no, but because they know why to say no. So, yes drugs should be all be legal, I'll bet that many will quit because some do like to get drugs for the thrill of getting something that's not allowed.
Alcohol is a drug. Doesn't mean everyone is an alcoholic, just those idiots who over do it all the time. It's the same for drugs. Now certain drugs that form addiction right away, I'm sure you all can guess which ones - including many prescriptions and over-the-counters, they should be banned or at least regulated to prevent addictions. But if they were legal, it'll be the pharmact to regulate them and not some black market jerk who regulates by cutting your (imagine) off. At least that is my two cents.
The Duderino
It's not about what I need. I'm all about the weed, nothing else for me. I just have a big problem with the government spending my money to lock people up for victimless crimes like drug use and prostitution. Why should a drug be illegal? Drug addicts don't get cured in prisons. They get violent and angry and then they're released on the streets again. These people are sick, not criminals. Hospitals, not prisons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lily420
I think drugs that are well known to lead to addiction and overdose should not be legal such as cocaine and heroin and all that other shit. Shrooms, weed and acid just to name a few on the other hand should be legalized. The only way I think cocaine and stuff like that should be legalized is if it's proven to act faster (as a number) as a anesthetic when your in the E.R. faster than some of the legal anesthetics will.
First of all...All drugs can't be legal. Marijuana is the only other drug that isn't legal that should be legal. Everything else is to easy to abuse, people would be tripping balls and try to drive to McDonalds. Dont try to tell me that they wont because people are retarded and someone will.
Its just dumb to even say that drugs that can make you flip out and think everyone is agaisnt you and you end up killing someone.......it would defiantly happen. I agree that people should be able to take whatever they want, whenever they want but some people wouldnt be able to handle it, and then when someone dies for the reason i said earlier people would realize and be like "fuck, we made a mistake" and then they would make everything illegal and then crime would rocket.......etc it would just keep happenig like that
all drugs no exceptions shoulde be legal
Heavy regulations for what we call class a's now eg heroin coke wot not
but nothing is made safer including heroin
by keeping it illegal
just my opinion
:thumbsup: I agree. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
I read a quote somewhere, don't remember who it was, but it said "If drug addiction is a disease, then the Drug War is a crime." I agree with that statement.
If we think that people who are addicted to drugs have a disease, then how the fuck is putting them into prisons going to solve anything?
I think that everything should be legal, from good old Mary Jane all the way up to Heroin. Its your body, it should be your choice. If you want to take Heroin, then thats your choice (there should be some educating about hard drugs, and not bullshit Freevibe, above the influence, and dare).