Question for people who want to legalize drugs?

Question

If we legalize drugs like marijuana, cocaine, etc., shouldn't we also legalize all drugs which are currently only available through a doctor's prescription? Some prescription drugs are more dangerous than illegal drugs, but some are not. Why don't we just make sure people receive all available information about ALL drugs, and then let them decide what they want to take? Why should we say to citizens: "you can buy drug X anytime, you can buy drug Y only after a doctor's prescription, but you can't buy drug Z legally anytime? Let adults make their own choices so long as they are not hurting anyone.

Answer 1

Drugs must not be legalize because the control is very difficult. There will be more crimes since users are hard to control when spread in many areas.

Answer 2

Marijuana seems pretty innocuous and undeserving of the excessive war against it, since it is NOT addictive. Unlike the other banned drugs, it causes no dopamine reaction in the brain, which is the core of addiction. It can become an emotional or social habit, but not a physical, addiction. Casual use along the lines of a beer on the weekend doesn't deserve the demonization its received.
However, all of the others have serious drawbacks. Illegals like ecstasy and cocaine can do some incredible damage and prescription drugs require a detailed understanding of their operating mechanisms, as well as how much each person may need according to their medical condition. Just a bit too much or too little can cripple or kill you, or simply be ineffective where treatment is needed.
In addition, with each new drug a person adds to their list, there is a cumulative effect. Some will cancel others out or have interactions that can lead to new problems. Its a complex SCIENCE and the average person isn't even remotely equipped to make such value judgements. Many are so used to just popping an aspirin or other over-the-counter pills, they wrongfully assume drugs are all more or less the same. Not true by a mile.
Consider blood pressure pills. Doctors still have no idea of what causes it to go up or down past a minimal point, only that certain compounds can make it happen. Too little and the pressure stays dangerously high; one notch too much and it can cause a stroke or death. Guaging that isn't something one can learn from a pamphlet.
Part of being an adult is knowing where your limitations are. Most of us are no more equipped to self-prescribe than we are to pilot a jet. The potential for "hurt" is enormous. Be smart enough to let a trained specialist handle the heavy lifting. After all, casual thinking like this is why its under legal restrictions to begin with.
The prohibition against marijuana seems to cause more social damage than its use by far, but in the case of harder or prescription drugs, the structure is as it should be. It has science and logic behind it.

Answer 3

Say for instance all drugs were legalized, it's good for the adults to make up their own mind, but they sometimes forget about the example they set on the children. Drugs affect people in different ways. If you're smoking a blunt or snorting coke, and having fun doing it, children are going to want to do it too. They're going to think 'who doesn't want to have fun'. Yet they can take the same drug and their body maybe to weak for it, which is the whole point in doctors prescription. So, in the long run, it hurts everyone that's trying to do the right thing for their community.

Answer 4

first of all, all the prescription drugs are bascially derivitives of illegal drugs.
They are a variation one way or another of the illegal ones.

If you make the pure substances legal, all it is going to do, is reduce pharmacy profits, by people seeking the pure substance and self medicating with small doeses rather than filling their prescriptions. Now this isn't going to be everyone, the majority will still follow precisely what the doctor orders, but a few will not.
niether the government, or the pharmacies want to lose the money of the folks who will not follow the doctor's orders to the T.

If illegal drugs are made legal, they won;t be worth much. therefore, there won;t be drug dealers that decide they are worht more than college degrees. that is the whole reason for the drug problem right now.
the drug wars have decresed availability, thus making the prices sky-rocket, and causing them to be more profitable for those willing to take the risk. as long as their is a damn, there wil always be someone willing to cash in on that demand. if they can't cash in, like they are doing presently, they aren't going to do so.
Drugs only became a real big problem when they became illegal. before that, legitimate companies were selling them, and paying their taxes on everyhting.
there were no terf wars over drugs, there were no cops being paid off to deliver them, there were no mobsters raking in huge profits selling them.
honest education has proven to be the only factor that actually reduces the demand for dangerous actions.
of course there will always be those people who are willing to push their chances, but decrimilization or legalization would in fact reduce crime and problems. not to mention, provide our government with more tax dollars, and reduce the amount they spend, so they can spend it on fighting terrorism, other violent crimes, or cut taxes.

drug dealers would definitely out of business, so in this respect, people who side with the anti-drug movement are siding with the drug dealers' ability to make illegal funds.

Answer 5

All drugs were legal up until the twenties and most were still legal into the thirties. The first drug law passed in this country was in San Francisco to stop the Chinese from using opium in city limits, only the Chinese. All drugs are demonized which helps in the passing of laws to make them illegal. We have done nothing but create horror stories and fallacies concerning most drug usage. Just as with alcohol there are going to be people who abuse drugs, that does not mean the majority of people will, for that matter it doesn't even mean people will use any just because they were to become legal. Our constitution gives us the right, politicians over the years have found ways around our rights.

Answer 6

well, I actually disagree with the legalisation of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, speed and ectascy. These drugs are already expensive enough as it is. Could you imagine the amount of tax the government would add to the price if they were legal? (and too many of my friends would be outta business)

I think as adults, we do have that choice. I mean, just because it's illegal to take some recreational drugs, I don't think the legality minimises the amount of people who do take them. I don't even know many people who don't dabble in them atleast every now and then.

I also know a doctor who you go to and you can request any prescription you like. You should see how quick he swipe's the patients card, write's the script and then it's next please. I don't think he even check's his patients... the people who go to him are not sick, they just want some kind of prescription.

In my opinion, the laws are there, but they are not really doing much to stop anyone from making choices for themselves regarding drugs. Not here anyway. Im from Sydney btw.

Answer 7

I believe an informed adult should be able legally to buy the drug of his/her choice.
However that person should be held responsible for any consequences.
The government should make available ACCURATE & TRUTHFULL information about all drugs - not all the emotion laden bad science & pharmacuetical company sales hype they push today.
The federal government should STOP suppressing scientific research on "bad" drugs like they do currently (ie marijuana,psilocybin etc).
Honest drug classes should be in all classrooms from grade school through college.
Real drug treatment ( as opposed to the 12 step bullsh*t & other government/legal profession sponsered programs) should be available & affordable. Easy to accomplish with the taxes that could be placed on the appropriate drugs.

Just about any program would be better than the multiple decade failed War on Drugs program.

Answer 8

Your last sentence says it all. Alcohol is legal and it is one of the worst drugs being used. Very 'noisy'. If that is OK to use, then all others should be available, with safeguards.
It'll cut down on crime and release a lot of people who are now wasting money tax money, the DEA. Let them work at something constructive. They certainly aren't doing the job they get paid for. Fire all of them! And get taxes on the drugs people buy anyway.
And empty the prisons of users. What a waste all the way around!

Answer 9

You'd have a big problem with the medical community if you cut them out of the Rx racket.

The only drug I think should remain illegal is meth. Unlike the other street drugs, it really damages your body. And for those of you about to jump down my throat, A hard core junkie or cokehead can quit, and no physical exam will show his prior drug use,

Answer 10

In some countries, no prescription is needed to purchase medication. There isn't rampant drug abuse as the so called illegal drugs already have that market. There is wholesale abuse of antibiotics, but we already have that in this country.

I say legalize just don't expect me to pay for it when you f*** yourself up.

Answer 11

Cocaine should never be legalized and alcohol is much stronger of a drug than even the strongest variety of marijuana.