Should we legalise drugs?

Answer 1

Some, not all.

Answer 2

I think marijuana should be legalized, and here's why: the way I see it, alcohol is a far, far more dangerous substance and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year - both directly (ie, from alcohol-related diseases and drunken accidents) and indirectly (people who are sober, but who die indirectly as a result of someone getting drunk).

Marijuana doesn't have the track record of social and physiological harm that alcohol does. If anything, it has shown to have therapeutic qualities, aiding people suffering from all types of diseases. If marijuana were legalized, it could be taxed and sold quite like beer, wine and liquor; growers and sellers would be decriminalized, so jails would empty themselves of several thousand inmates and police resources redirected towards more concerning issues; and the dollars spent and accrued in the sale of marijuana would have a positive effect on the economy as a whole.

Keeping pot illegal really is pretty silly. Next time you're out on the town, watch a gaggle of drunk sorority girls weave their way down the sidewalk, and ask yourself which one of them will be driving everyone home. Then ask yourself what the average pot smoker is doing. They're probably safe at home watching TV like anyone else.

The other controlled substances are too dangerous to legalize, and the production and distribution of such drugs are dominated by gangsters. Not worth the hassle.

Answer 3

I can't help feeling that we should. No amount of legislation seems to reduce the number of addicts, or the crime they commit to get the money to buy drugs. The monetary cost of addiction is very high - the illegal drug traders can charge a fortune, because their customers are so desperate to get their hands on the goods. If the trade were legalised, and drugs were available at your local pharmacy at more reasonable prices, there would be no profit in it for "drug barons" and dealers, so the illegal trade would wither away, and the amount of crime committed by the poor souls who are addicts would decline.

Answer 4

No, for a variety of reasons. The most important reason is that we will not be able to protect our children and other innocents from partaking of, for instance, the smoke from some of it and also from being in the hands of drugged people. I once lived in an apartment and had to breathe the smoke from another apartment's smoking residents. I couldn't do anything because it was legal, in spite of the fact that my child and their 2 small children lived there as well. Sure, people can get drugs now, but we can better protect our children when they do just because it's illegal. Also, whether or not they affect the body, all drugs destroy the soul and marijuana is one of the worst. The biggest lie is the one that is most easily concealed and the big lie in marijuana use is that it does no harm. Anything that is used to escape reality is harmful. The pain is there to push us to grow and change, especially ourselves. When we change ourselves, we change the world. A person who begins using pot at 15 is still 15 when so/he stops, if s/he ever does.

Answer 5

So many would be out of a job, straight up.

Whether it's the "War on Drugs"-- all the jobs in enforcement and imprisonment

or the underground economy. The only people that will gain are drug users who face possession charges, and corporations that will make money on the deal to distribute.

the poor would seriously have even less money in the ghetto.
there would be less people in prison...but even less ways of making money. Afghanistan and Columbia would basically collapse.

If you heavily tax these drugs and then use the profit to fund community projects in those foreign countiries and our own third world ghettos -- that would actually count for something. The retail market for illegal drugs worldwide is $321 billion dollars...

Answer 6

That's a very difficult one to answer with 'yes' or 'no'.
I don't agree with drug taking so would like to see it completely irradicated, however, by inflicting a ban on the substances we are pushing the industry underground with no inspecting bodies to regulate the levels within the drugs.
At present the consequences of being found with any illegal drug is not taken seriously enough to put the money makers off their involvement in the industry.
Harsher punishments is the only way that society's view on drug taking will change from being 'cool'.

Answer 7

In Holland they are already legal, and they have one of the lowest addiction rates in the world. It takes the mystery out of it when they are legal. Also, I don't know anybody who is going to start taking drugs because they are legal, and from what I can tell, making them illegal doesn't stop them. If they were legal, the government could make sure they were not laced with anything dangerous. Not only would the government have quality control over it (how many people drink moonshine, or would dare to do so) the government could use the tax money it gains to put into drug treatment centers. It also keeps the money out of the hands of illegal dealers.

Answer 8

Many drugs ARE legal, and little or no common sense prevails in deciding which toxins can be sold and taxed and which must remain the purview of criminal traffickers.

You should do a little googling and find out who the main lobby was that led to the outlawing of hemp in the US. It might amuse you!

Answer 9

yes yes and for heavens sake yes

de-crimilaise drugs, de-legalise alcohol, de-lay paying the mortgage and de-part for amsterdam....

sort it out labour govt.....buy the freaking opium from afgahnistan, save them from the drugs barons, save the NHS a fortune by processing the opium ourselves and also giving it to addicts who will save the tax payer millions because they arent commiting crime.....

keeping drugs illegal is like trying to turn a lion vegetarian, or telling a 6 year old child not to laugh at potty humour.....its just not practical....

Answer 10

Take 1: We do they are called pharmaceuticals!

Take 2: Can you imagine what the world would be like with everyone smashed out of their brains all the time? Imagine your young kids nipping down to the crack cocaine shop for some after school fun. Imagine the thrill of seeing your airline pilot shooting up on heroin just before take-off when you go on holiday...

Answer 11

Only for medical reasons. Man made Pleasure Drugs will have an affect on our society by causing apathy and fear, which will get us conquered and placed into slavery. Now herbal drugs for the use of relaxation or recreational use can be modified for human use to become non addictive such as marijuana. Not all things though are good for us. Everything in moderation.
(Phl 4:5) Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand.
(1Cr 6:12) All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
(1Cr 10:23) All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
(Pro 8:11) For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.