with the great demand for illegal drugs in the U>S>A. wouldnt we be prudent to reform our drug laws?

Question

to keep from making so many people titled criminials bad people do use drugs but so do many good people drugs do not make a good person do bad things in my opinion bad people do bad things

Answer 1

Strict implementation of the law in order that drug dealers will be immediately apprehended and put a stop to drug use.

Answer 2

Yes, it certainly would. You see, what we have now has long since proved ineffective. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution was passed into law January 16, 1919. There was hell in the US until it was finally repealed on December 5, 1933.

That was about alcohol, but the lessons learned can be generalized to other intoxicants. It simply does not work to legislate intoxicants and their appeal away. It puts those intoxicants in the hands of those who can reap enormous profits by manufacture and distribution of the illegal substance on the black market. Those are the people with the cunning, ruthlessness and organization to work effectively outside the law.

And those are the manufacturers, importers and distributors of illegal substances today. Remember, too, that Elliot Ness and his famous group were called "The Untouchables" precisely because most OTHER law enforcement officers were either on the take or ignorant dupes. Whenever illegal traffic overwhelms the enforcement operations, the government response is to hire more enforcement personnel. Increases the amount of corruption by extension, and we are in a downward spiral.

The government has no business telling people what they can and cannot put in their bodies. They have a legitimate function in enforcing the laws against theft and violence, which are greatly increased not because of the drug itself, but because of its illegality.

Most experts agree that drug use would be greatly reduced by making them legal, as people would have less problems getting medical assistance to kick an addiction, and addicting drugs would lose much of their appeal if they were disassociated from the milieu of the underworld. Teenagers, especially, tend to be curious about anything that is forbidden. They have far less curiosity about something they might use occasionally for medical reasons, and which is readily available. A single dose would be enough to satisfy most; a few would have to be frightened by loss of control in order to have enough. Drugs would not cease to be a problem, but they would become a much, much smaller problem.

I also believe that if only marijuana were made legal, much of the appeal of other drugs would be reduced. Face it, people throughout history have found value in intoxicants for a variety of reasons. Alcohol and marijuana are sufficiently different that one cannot reasonably substitute for the other. But between the two, these comparatively common and controllable substances would account for some 90% to 99% of all person's need for intoxicants. More exotic drugs would then become the rarity, aside from legitimate pain control use.

Answer 3

It is not going to do any good to reform or make new laws, our judicial system must first start enforcing the laws we have in place. And, yes, drugs even make good people do bad things.

Answer 4

If your assumption is that we should legalize these drugs, try and use some logic. By the legalization of these drugs we could damage generations to come by the brain altering tendencies of them. Think of the huge medical bills to counter the people that would be addicted to them. Think of the moral decline of our society by the legalization of them. No, I would rather step up enforcement and work on eradication of all illegal drugs and people that sell them.

Answer 5

Sure...and for the rest of us that want to live a normal life, consider what legalizing illegal drugs means:

- daling with the morale dillemma of so many people killing themselves.
- allowing ourselves to be endangered with do many more incapacitated drivers.
- It is a generally disgusting habit...almost as bad as people masterbating in public placs. I consider drug users the trash of our society and prefer to see them livng together out of sight.
- If they want legal drugs, let them move to Amsterdam...I want my country drug free. ...in fact, I demand it.

The change would not be good.

Answer 6

y6our so right but how do you succeed with a government with liars and profiteers at the helm

Answer 7

Right on!

Answer 8

true true