Why should drugs be illegal?

Question

Smoking is legal. Drinking is legal. It's hypocritical. People should be able to make their own conclusions on what they consume in their bodies. If drugs were legal they would be safer because they would be regulated and our justice system would be able to focus on more important crimes such as rape and murder instead of dealing with drug users who are hurting no one but themsevles. (which they know and consent to)

Answer 1

What is JaneyFree talking about? Drugs being illegal is what's keeping certain poor minorities poor and on the streets. And as for the drug war being good for the economy, the governments spending tons of money trying to make personal decisions for the people. If drugs were legal, the government would tax the hell out of them. That's a win win situation. And as for the government creating jobs for people, a larger police force and government in general is the last thing we need.

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Answer 2

The potential ramifications outweigh the potential good that might come from legalizing other drugs. Alcohol and Tobacco are only legal because they are ingrained in our society, we tried prohibition but that didn’t work and arguably helped foster the growth of the mafia.
What you legalize and where you stop is another question with new drugs being developed all the time you would have to legalize anything and everything to enable corporations to competitively swash the competition of illegal drug dealers. What happens if you find out that it doesn’t solve society’s problems and only adds to them, it might be difficult and costly to make it illegal again, just think of the capital that companies will invest in to produce meth and so on?

Answer 3

I believe you that the opt to modify the thoughts, i.e., to flee from truth, is a common human want. i imagine it should be slightly decrease on the record, even with the truth that, because human beings want love and/or companionship earlier they want different issues. I also agree that the taxation situation, highly at the same time as it includes marijuana, is significant. If anybody ought to easily advance it of their decrease back backyard, the authorities does no longer get its reduce like it does with tobacco and alcohol. The pharmaceutical market has sufficient drugs to positioned the completed united states into l. a.-l. a. land and then some, yet they federally regulated, are worthwhile, and pay taxes. Heroin and cocaine are extra puzzling because of their addictive homes and means deadly nature. If certainly anybody ought to legally purchase those drugs, cost effectively, there's a astounding spike (no pun meant) in overdoses, so in this regard i trust the authorities, or a minimum of your common voter, is in touch about the wellbeing consequences and by no skill a lot about the lost taxes.

Answer 4

If anyone wants to really understand the subject, 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

This is the best overall review of the subject ever written, and certainly the most readable.

You should also read the short history of the marijuana laws at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm It is funny and surprising.

Then ou should read the Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/studies.htm This is a collection of the full text of most of the major government commission reports over the last 100 years. They all reached similar conclusions.

One thing of which you can be 100 percent certain -- if anyone supports prohibition, then they haven't read the most basic research on the subject.

Answer 5

What you and others need to understand is that a great deal of those other crimes you want to stop are committed by those selling drugs and those buying and using drugs. robbery and murder are very closely tied to the drug market. Pass laws and ENFORCE them have drug rehabs available for all first offenders give them a chance for a better life but if the y return lock them up. Drug dealers and manufactures need to be forced into work camps to pay for the expenses of rehab for the people that they caused to be addicted to their drugs. this would end a great deal of the crime and our towns and citizens would be safe again.

Answer 6

People will do whatever they want be it legal, illegal, moral or un-moral. However as an ex drug user I will say first hand that drugs DO ruin lives, and I'm not talking about the plant (marijuana) Chemical drugs should and will always be illegal

Answer 7

I totally agree and would add that the illegal drug business would die if drugs were legal. I don't know how Americans can continue to see with their own eyes and misery that drugs bring to people. It is an illusion of life that they get which often adds up to an early death.
The problem is the silly and harmful conservatives that want free enterprise to run the American government. Business does not know how to run government. Business is the antitheses of government.
We really do need to take our government back and out of the hands of the money changers.
Thanks for bringing it up.

Answer 8

The catastrophe that would come with legalizing drugs would result in the the catastrophe that befel China in the nineteenth century with massive opium addiction.

Answer 9

The societal problems (legal, social etc) created by drug use are actually created by society anyway. The people who overdo everything and cause trouble will ruin it for everyone anyway, except courts and law enforcement. I still don't like the idea of anyone telling me what to ingest.

Answer 10

Drugs should be illegal so that we can keep poor minorities off the streets because with outsourcing and the new global economy, we can't provide jobs for everyone.
Drug illegality helps CREATE jobs actually, so it is a win/win situation. Lots and lots of government jobs, prison corporations, lawyers, courts, money money money money money....mmmmm.
Wars stimulate the economy,. A made up 'drug war' works the same: You pin an enemy (everyone is guilty in some way, right!?), you create a system and force to fight it and you profit off of it.