Cap'n Slappy
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Legalize Drugs?Did anyone read the comment AllenX316 made on the Herald message board? I may have read it wrong but was he advocating legalizing drugs?
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The Rock
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I didn't even realize there was a Herald messageboard.
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THE CURE
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Do you think more people would use drugs if they were legal?
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The Rock
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Why not legalize it for a temporary run? See how it works out with taking the profit out of illegal drug trade, and making these drug runners come up with alternate means of gathering income (i.e. getting a damn job). If it doesn't pan out and everybody starts getting hooked on blow, then find an alternate plan or revert back to the way it was before.
Maybe I'm missing overlooking something here (which I'm sure some blowhard will tell me that I am shortly), but it seems to my narrowsighted mind that it could possibly work out for the better.
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Nighthawk
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While on paper I agree, it sounds good Rock, I just think that petty crimes would rise dramatically. Here is my vision of what would happen.
People would go nuts that they could try out any drug. They would. Some would experiment and leave it. Some people could become addicted, or just use regularly, and still carry on a normal life. Many pot smokers do. Some would alsothen get hooked and lose control. Before you know it, the cops aren't having to police down people for drug trafficking, but you would see an astronomical rise in petty larceny, assault, burglary, theft, and robbery. Our jails and prisons would be overrun, but not by drug dealers, but by users. Users who are out of money, never had any, and are looking for anyway to score another hit. Prostitution would be up. Child neglect would be up, for obvious reasons as well. So while our prisons might empty from dealers, the loan sharks, pimps, and fences would have a damn field day, and we'd be jailing tons of addicts. They wouldn't have to deal with product now, but with merchandise or services.
I honsetly don't have a real big problem legalizing pot. Anybody can get it and MANY people use it. It would be safer in many ways to have a standardized production and control system in place to keep it from being laced with other product. The government would make a LOT of money from taxation. But its sorta like gun control. Once you take the first step, you set a precedent. And while the first step might make sense, like registering weapons, or banning tanks, antiaircraft guns, and bazookas, you start down a path that inevitably leads to a bad place. Australia registered guns, and then they took them once they knew where to find them. So far some European countries have legalized pot, with little effect. But in 10 years, whose to say they won't have people crying because coke isn't legal. Or heroin. Or acid. Thats the only response to you that I have Rock. Its a dangerous precedent to make. Is it fair to lump pot heads with cokefiends or heroin addicts? Nah. They aren't much worse than an alcoholic, really. They don't kill people like the stupid drug ads claim. They get hungry, and ramble about stupid $%^&. They don't beat grandma to death for $20 to get another dimebag. But its tough to believe many of these people who want legal "medical" marijuana, when they look completely fine. They are just trying to get the ball rolling to their real aim, legalized drugs, or at least pot for the stoners.
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Kim
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Yeah I can kind of see it to a point { I do feel it should be legalized for medicinal purposes }, however I would fear that with freewill to smoke pot legally we would have alot more stoners out there driving vehicles risking innocent lives....In my high school days I have seen some of my friends so stoned they could barely walk, and I certainly wouldn't have gotten in a car with them. Just a thought ......
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