what if drugs became legal?

Question

if drugs became legal what percentage of the us would become addicted how many would die before 30?... and i mean the kind of drugs that are iilegal not the medical kind and im saying this because many ppl would make ramarks on this if i wouldnt say this

Answer 1

Last person that asked this question only got the answer "sleeping pills are legal" from me,thanks for adding details.

As for the dangerous drugs people use to get high,i'd say legalizing it is 4 steps backwards. It would make drug use more acceptable. Right now people more or less have some idea of how bad it is,but if it becomes acceptable by law to do it,it may then become socially acceptable,etc etc.

You get what i'm saying,right? I don't know what's going on in America,which I assume is where you are,but even if they're considering legalizing drugs,it wouldn't happen.

EDIT:
Someone said something about regulating the legal drugs.That would simply mean that drugs aren't all legalized,because people would continue to make illegal drugs free of regulations,dangerous ones,like they are now. Making a handful of less dangerous,legal,regulated ones would be a new category,and the drugs we know now wouldn't be "legalized",though this idea has some merit.

Medical drugs - OK

Illegal drugs - Will always have some trace of existence.

Legal high drugs - Diffrent to legalizing current "high" drugs,new drugs,new category.

Answer 2

People would undoubtably become addicted. But there are people addicted to alcohol, cigarettes, and gambling. However, the government is making money from those things. If drugs were to have a very high tax on them, and they were highly regulated, this could work out. Also, many of the problems of drugs arise from the fact that they are illegal. If they were legal, as many people wouldn't be killed for their drugs.

All this would only work if the government could find someway to put heavy, heavy regulations on drugs. As far as I know, there's no way to do that, so as of now, drugs should not be legal. There's too many things that could go wrong. One being that drugs are NOT good for you, no matter what.

I just think that the govt. could be making money off a very large economy.

Answer 3

Ending prohibition even with high taxes and tight controls still in place ended the age of the bootleggers and moonshiners. Many of your now wealthy and political families wanted prohibition to continue. It was very profitable. It was a political hot button. few were ever able to confront and back Carrie Nation down. But eventually the truth was acknowledged that the war on booze was a bust.
I believe drugs are the same way. After close to 40 years of the war on drugs and countless scandals involving government agencies dealing dope drug use is more common than ever with more variety and potency than ever before. It is high time it ended.
I am tired of paying major portions of my taxes saving addicts from a life of crime by pushing the cost of their addiction so high that they commit crimes to get supplied.
Go ahead and reread the last sentence. Prohibition is not working, and all the drug squads do is keep the prices high.

Answer 4

Crime would go down toe tax base would come down on some things and don't think there would that many more addicts than all ready out there,the people that is going to die before 30 will die any way just have to pay more.crime would be cut in half the drug pushers would be out of a job.They would have to get a real job.there have been a study in Denmark Sweden and a lot of people that did drugs stopped or cut down.

Answer 5

What if. For one thing, all the criminals who make big money off the illegailty of drugs would have to find other work. We could tax the drugs heavily like we do with all our other goodies you're not supposed to like. Nobody who wouldn't do drugs anyway would start just because they're legal - would you? If so, you have a weaker mind than most. Prohibition doesn't work. The "War on Drugs" is an utter failure.

Answer 6

Look for some statistics from NORMAL's website...being the scholar of Churchill that I am I try to avoid quoting any for of lie...(There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics [Winston Churchill before Parliment]) That being said: I don't think things would be nearly as bad as your question implies...I think most of the drug use and addiction is caused by the allure of "raging against the machine" and it is not so much about the drugs as it is about rebellion...that being said...things may be pretty good with most drugs legalized.

Answer 7

End of the World

Answer 8

the people will go mad on drugs if so....will be very saad

Answer 9

i would be loveing it i would be getting hi a lot

Answer 10

um, we'd all have more fun and the population/ stupid gene pool problem would be solved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!