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For the most part, it is in the interest of the people in power to keep marijuana illegal and wage a war on drugs. So I wouldn't count on drugs such as marijuana being legalizing.
For the the most part, I believe the people in society would be better off if drugs were legalized. Mainly, legalizing marijuana would reduce violent crime. Also, the saved taxes (and the potential extra taxes made by taxing marijuana) could be used to alleviate other social problems such as poverty.
In conclusion, I support marijuana legalization because I believe it would greatly benefit most people in society, but I doubt it will be legalized anytime soon because the ruling class benefits from prohibition.
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buddaluver1414 wrote:This is a very popular topic with politics today. But I want your opinion. Should people be able to purchase marijuana if they are 18, know the addiction effect on there lives, know this may cause brain damage, and will only smoke it in there homes? In my opinion if they are going to smoke it indoors and out of minors sight its fine with me if they are okay with the side effects. But the schools and goverment should still do PSAs and programs like D.A.R.E.
ape wrote:In the sense that MJ is just like cigarettes and drinking, --with all of the ill-effects known,--yes.
But in terms of mj being more hallucinatory and etc, it shd be kept illegal, like propofol is kept out of reach.
Of course, as long as the real illegality and crime of self-Hate is allowed as legal and uncriminalised, then there is no solution no matter how many psa's there are and how many programs like DARE there are nor if mj is kept as illegal.
buddaluver1414 wrote:I never thought about it like that, but your right. If the stuff wasn't illegal then there would be no point for any of the PSAs and programs. And society would collapse.
tmv wrote:Legality will just lower the price so people can get more and smoke more and realize how boring it is and stop even quicker. Either way people will smoke it though so at this point it hardly matters. Getting some tax dollars off the sale of it could be nice though.
pjkeeley wrote:What business is it of the government what substance an adult puts into her body?
Veritas wrote:What do you mean by, "society would collapse"? I don't see how the lack of anti-drug programs would cause a collapse of society (especially being that society worked just fine before any of these programs were first implemented.)buddaluver1414 wrote:I never thought about it like that, but your right. If the stuff wasn't illegal then there would be no point for any of the PSAs and programs. And society would collapse.
To add to my previous comments, I believe marijuana usage could be more effectively lowered using a public health campaign like that used against cigarettes. Additionally, the massive savings (from not having to pay for the expensive war on drugs) and the new revenue (from heavily taxing marijuana) would allow us to fund more drug rehabilitation and drug education programs, other important social programs or just give tax breaks to the working folks.wanabe wrote:all drugs should be legal!. kids should be taught of there dangers and there blessings and should refrain from their use until they are mature enough(they decide, yes that can be fallacious, but only they know for sure).
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We should create a centralized location and wall/fence it off. Check every individual heading in. Mandatory strip searches for all people exiting and re-entering the 'drug-free' world.
If we did this, all who wished to use so-called 'illicit substances' could do so in peace, and so could kill themselves in a controlled and taxed environment.
I think this is a sensible solution.
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whitetrshsoldier wrote:Having previously used drugs [as a teenager], I say we should do as Amsterdam has done, but in a more severe fashion.
We should create a centralized location and wall/fence it off. Check every individual heading in. Mandatory strip searches for all people exiting and re-entering the 'drug-free' world.
If we did this, all who wished to use so-called 'illicit substances' could do so in peace, and so could kill themselves in a controlled and taxed environment.
I think this is a sensible solution.
I absolutely agree here and think this could be applied to all drugs, from alchohol to crack. Wall them off, set a limit on the amount of time they will have had to abstain from using so that they won't be entering the 'drug-free world' intoxicated. In the past weren't opium dens like that? In a way? I'm sure you could probably leave when you wanted though.
Doing this, though, would have some problems. Such as, when a drug is being used for medicinal purposes and such.
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whitetrshsoldier,
I like the idea of prohibiting weapon possession in places where alcohol drinking, drug doing, gambling and other similar activities occur.
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Nick_A,
Of course, Nick_A, nobody is proposing allowing offensively violent crime, such as murder, rape, battery, muggings, vandalism and so forth. If someone commits an act like murder or rape, I think all us want them detained regardless of whether or not they happen to smoke marijuana, drink alcohol, gamble, watch internet porn or perform some other arguably self-destructive, intoxicating or addictive activity. And as explained above, those convicted of a violent crime can be prohibited from engaging in this activities as a condition of their release.Nick_A wrote:Are you willing to hold an addict responsible for their crimes and equal under the law at least theoretically with anyone else regardless of race, color, religion etc.?
Anyway, Nick_A, I think you make an important point. Even when drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana or doing some other addictive, intoxicating or self-destructive activity is legal, we cannot allow that to be a defense for committing other violent crimes. "I was drunk at the time," is not an excuse for abusing one's children. "I wanted buy drugs to get high," is not an excuse for mugging someone.
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Besides the potential to help the economy, the drug is extremely effective for a lot of epileptics. Some epileptics have to take a range of drugs to reduce their seizures. The meds are basically mood stabilizers that are normally used for people with mental problems. For a lot of epileptics, regular meds don't work and they are suffering through multiple seizures a week. I haven't the slightest clue why it is not at least medically legal.
Also, people that are terminally ill should have the right to smoke or vaporize a little weed before they die. I mean come on, they're dying. A lot of cancer patients don't want to use poppy plant derived meds for pain(for obvious reasons). I mean, who wants to be a slave with the little time they have? Offered opiates and denied weed????? Am I in the freakin Twilight Zone?
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Even in states where its half-ass legal like California they “the law enforcement” constantly harass and shake down legal operations in the name of federal law.
Its all about the production and distribution, as in some states now its perfectly legal to consume marijuana, but I wonder if its legal to grow and sell in significant quantities.
On the other side of the coin, if anyone knows the result of using marijuana, then they know that they wouldn’t want their army smoking the stuff, when they are supposed to be combat ready. As far as social ramifications those who would drink and drive drink and drive law or no law, those who would consume marijuana and drive consume marijuana and drive law or no law.
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