Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
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?
:thumbsup: I agree. :thumbsup:

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).