If Some Drugs Were Legalised?

Question

If the government legalised certain drugs, such as XTC, LSD, Cannabis and cocaine, allowed companies to professionally produce and distribute pure forms of the sunstances (i.e. minus the more dangerous substitutes and additional poisons) and sold them if the same fashion as cigarettes and alcohol. How do you think the nation would react? How would drug users react? How would health campaigners react? Could it work?

I have been told that certain drugs such as XTC and even Heroine, if prepared properly (if there is such a way to make drugs) that the actual dangers of these drugs is reduced. If for example XTc only contained caffiene and MDMA the effects and health concerns would be less severe than the impure street offerings that have MDA, other amphetimines and rat posion in them. That's what I meant by professionaly producing drugs that we paid tax on when we bought them and carried all the ingredients and health warnings just like cigarettes.

Answer 1

Well the amount of money in taxes would certainly be a major factor....it's also arguable that crime on one hand would be significantly reduced for obvious reasons (decriminalisation) but then again would there be an increase in users and therefore crime related to obtaining money for these drugs?? Many criminal gangs working in the drug industry would be put out of business and a lot of profits from this activity funds other crimes such as people trafficking. A combination of selling certain drugs through licenced premises and a liberalisation of trade barriers for certain substances could actually benefit certain drug production for some of the world's poorest people.
It has been proved with the lowering of cannabis to grade C that usage has actually dropped....maybe an effect of making it less desirable as it doesn't carry the same position in youngsters minds (demand dropping when level of legality falls). Check out New Scientist Magazine for figures.
How would nation/ health care react ...probably extremely negatively and in many cases for good reasons. Could it work? well for such a complicated matter with so many issues it would require a huge cost/benefit analysis and to implement such a system i would imagine is too expensive monetarily speaking. Read a bit of "Mr.Nice" for info on drug trafficking industry and ideas advocating this theory.

Answer 2

the nation would react the same if not better due to the lightening load and all the crimes that it perpetuates...the prisons would be empty if there were no more drug related charges..Its an industry that makes way to much money all the way around. And if you take a really good look at most of the users, you will find that alot of them are people who you would never have expected. The nation would continue just as it always has, as it always will.

Answer 3

I think only XTC and cocaine would cause health problems. I think the main way drugs ruin lives today is making criminals out of people who only want to get high.

I think crime would go down. Because drugs would be cheaper.

I think drug users wouldn't have as much fun doing drugs, half the fun is to be a part of an outlaw subculture.

I think alcohol companies would go nuts. I think organized crime would go nuts. Both have powerful lobbies that could prevent this from ever happening.

Answer 4

There is no generic answer to this question. It is on a case by case basis. For some drugs that are sold on the street where gang members sell them, make money, not pay taxes, kill others for control and power, buy guns and cause havoc, then its okay for the government to establish an industry and tax them. Again it's not for all drugs.

Answer 5

It would take the fun out of it for drug takers. The criminal would have to turn to some other trade to earn money.

I would legalise all drugs. Employers could test people if they don't want folk under the influence working for them.

The Government can encourage prisoners to stay on drugs and save the taxpayer money.

Answer 6

*well i dont think this idea would work bcoz these drugs u mentioned above comes under schedule II drugs category which cannot be prescibed without the prescription of a registered medical practitioner and also tht these drugs r highly dangerous as they are habit forming drugs.
*no one can minus the dangerous susbstances from them bcoz its not possible.
*these drugs r very toxic n dangerous to health so they can never be available in market for public use.

Answer 7

Cigarette and alcohol cause enough problems. They're legal and we still can't control what idiots will do with them. Legalizing illegal drugs that impair your judgement (for longer than alcohol) and affects your health much worst than cigarettes would just cause more problems. The problems are within the idiots that we give too much pity too.

Answer 8

I think that the government uses these durgs for certainthings. Cociane is used as a pain killer, cannabis is used for galcoma, but in mass production these drugs would be very regulated and probably expensive so no one will buy them.

Answer 9

If California is going forward with their plan to legalize pot, a sturdy chew of the difficulty with the Mexican drug commerce could leave in one day! California has already drawn up a plan and a bill has been drafted to bypass by using next 365 days's state legislature (it became into in the information final week). The sales tax earnings on my own could wipe out the state deficit interior one 365 days. There could be huge further value reductions from help of penal complex overcrowding with the aid of fact human beings in penal complex on marijuana offenses could could desire to be freed. With California offering criminal weed, there could be NO unlawful call for for weed in one finished state with a Mexican border. And marijuana could be taxed and controlled by making use of the government, merely like cigarettes and alcohol. this implies age limits on sale and intake, and likewise sorting out in the workplace if and whilst needed (I even have had to bypass by using drug and alchohol sorting out for my job for years, so it makes no distinction to me).

Answer 10

good plan and suggestions, but young kidz and teens are so stupid, they'll just end up *****ng it up, but just go to amsterdam for a holiday, its legal there! no probs out there