Does the criminalization of drugs work as a suppressant for their popularity? Should drugs become legalized and thus have standards set up for what they can/can't do(health-wise or type of high)? Should they also be legalized so they can be taxed? Should drugs just become decriminalized?
I'm talking about street drugs, from marijuana to crack and everything in between that's marginalized today.
2007-03-09 03:58:11 · 10 answers · asked by Luis 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Obviously not.
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2007-03-09 04:01:34 · answer #1 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I only believe marijuana has a lot of positives in society. Not the other drugs. I have never seen it hurt families the way crack and cocaine do. And don't give me the "makes people lazy" argument. You know for a fact that the person was lazy before they tried it.
As for what I think the best positive for marijuana
Try giving someone with ADD or ADHD pot over adderall and ritalin and see which one helps better. But don't let the pharmecutical companies and the politicians they have in their pockets see your answer becaus then they will say it is not "scientificilly proven" take care.
2007-03-09 12:05:25 · answer #2 · answered by Relax Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prohibition to the Amsterdam answer. The only way to work a negative phenomena is to bring it to the surface. tax aside the profit can be better distributed through the classes when legal. Criminalized substances create many side effects in society beyond financing other criminal activity. Unfortunately enforcement has become a huge publicly financed industry that allows figureheads to keep ground level enforcement distracted from other fields of criminology.
2007-03-09 12:20:32 · answer #3 · answered by canadaguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think that it works to some extent. With those who are set on it, it would not change anything. But for those who haven't yet taken drugs, it is something which has stopped a lot of it from coming I'm sure. I think something similar is the consumption of alcohol. The consumption of alcohol is a lot higher than it would be if it were illegal (it's fine that it's not, but there certainly is a difference). I would think the same would go with drugs. Frankly, though, drugs do enough damage that it's worth it to make it illegal.
2007-03-09 12:08:16 · answer #4 · answered by Laurel W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should be legalized. Then there would not be huge profits in selling them. No huge profits means no need for druggies to steal and harm people to get their drugs. Cigarettes kill more people than any drugs, yet no one is going to prison for smoking or selling cigarettes.
The problem with legalization is that it would put a huge industry out of businsess. That is the legal-penal system. With less crime, you need fewer prisons, guards, police, courts, lawyers and so on. What would all these people do for a living?
2007-03-09 12:04:27 · answer #5 · answered by ignoramus 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
there's also a difference between decriminalization and legalization, like in Canada.
Drug use could be aticketable offense, like drinking in public, without requiring jail time (although we could still criminalize trafficers). That would bring in fine revenues without opening thedoor to big corporations marketing drugs.
2007-03-09 12:02:02 · answer #6 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. And it seems to just lock up non-violent people for years and years, overcrowding the prison systems. Getting 25 years for a drug possession charge is abominable. Child molesters don't even get close to that sentence.
Something's wrong here.
2007-03-09 12:20:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
one thing i realized and that is humans dont like to be chained. it would make it even more popular if anything. since some people like to go against the grain
2007-03-09 12:04:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. once you are hooked on drugs, rules to help or laws against are just hinderences to doing what you want.
2007-03-09 12:05:10 · answer #9 · answered by swamp elf 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
outlawing them didn't stop me. So that would be a no
2007-03-09 12:02:11 · answer #10 · answered by Mean Rob 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋