2006-12-01 11:04:33 · 8 answers · asked by tk_tembo 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Oh boy, well here come the down thumbs. Yet still, I brave it.
What do I think of the national decriminalization of drugs?
I think it would be the worst thing to happen to North America.
More people would partake, more of our children would become addicts, our ability to work at high functioning jobs would decrease as we killed off our brain cells slowly. Crime would rise as now that junkies could be out in the open, they'd use more, so need to steal more to support their bigger habits.
Not only would we worry about drunk drivers, now we'd have to worry about more stoned drivers. (yes I know, all these problems are there now, but will increase if drugs are legal as they'll be even more users).
We'll have the hyped up kind, and the laid back kind, and one has to wonder how long before we grind ourselves to a halt. And let's not use the Swiss as an example, because in my personal opinion, it's not been a successful endeavour there.
We'd do to ourselves what Osama Bin Laden wants to do. We'd just do it for him.
Why would we even consider this when we're trying to get rid of tobacco because of it's affects. So let's criminalize tobacco and make the hard stuff all good man......
Nope, gotta say I'm against. Completely. But it'll be interesting to hear what the other side has to say with the logic.
This one should bring up a lively conversation
2006-12-01 11:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm absolutely in favor of that. We can always discourage it (think anti-drunk driving), but I think the feds/states should take over selling all of it as pure substances (like alcohol) and get over it. It'd be a profit center instead of a drain on law enforcement and penal institutes.
Some folks will always want to do drugs, just like some will always want to drink booze. Let's accept that and decriminalize it instead of having the highest incarceration rate in the world, a huge proportion of which is from draconian feel-good anti-drug laws. Get rid of the drug dealers and the corruption in overseas governments.
PS - I don't do drugs and have little sympathy for people who screw up their lives doing them. The law is the law, and some kinds of self-abuse just don't make a whole lot of sense. But it should be their choice until the use of the drug itself absolutely harms others.
2006-12-01 19:25:13 · answer #2 · answered by mattzcoz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to know the answer to that, the first book to read is the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm
It will give you a good history of how the laws developed, and how the problems developed with them. Let it suffice to say that if someone hasn't read that book then they simply don't know the subject.
Every major study of the drug laws around the world in the last 100 years has concluded that drug prohibition causes more problems than it solves. You don't have to take my word for it. You can read them yourself at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer under Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy.
I will make you a bet. If you find anyone who supports the current war on drugs then it is guaranteed that they have never read any of the major government commission reports on the subject. That is 100 percent. You can prove it just by asking them.
2006-12-04 23:18:28 · answer #3 · answered by Cliff Schaffer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you are a libertarian.... It would be one answer to overcrowding in prisons.. at least for the non-violent offenders. Statistically, alcohol kills many more times of people than other drugs. I oppose the use of drugs and alcohol, but would be willing to consider the decriminalization of small amts for personal use. Our current system is broken, I am not sure what the answer may be, maybe that would be one possibility.
2006-12-01 19:09:28 · answer #4 · answered by Heatmizer 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Which Party's platform is that in? Did that Party win? If not, then it had better not happen. I'm not in favor of it. "Drugs" can mean virtually anything -- crack, meth, etc.
2006-12-01 19:43:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why? Do you think that our society is suffering from an excess of sobriety?
2006-12-01 19:09:33 · answer #6 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes only a moron would think otherwise or some one who profits from them like police and trial lawyers or the leagle drug profiteeres in human misery
2006-12-01 19:11:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think its a grand idea
2006-12-01 19:06:25 · answer #8 · answered by mrlebowski99 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋