How will legalizing drugs decrease crime?

Question

I used to use heroin and meth. My old best friend is an addict who was recently shot 3 times by Lakewood CA police. I've seen the dark side of this life in ways very few have. And legalizing drugs will solve nothing. It will create a black market. Are we going to give drugs to these people for free? They will still steal to get the drugs. Are we going to alter these drugs so that people who use them aren't dangerous? Impossible. Explain you liberals, how legalizing drugs will help. And remember, you probably haven't seen the things I've seen. DRUG USERS DO NOT BELONG IN SOCIETY!!!

Answer 1

Drugs shouldn't be legalized. But neither should alcohol, it all has the same affects. Some worse than others, but it all ruins families in the long run. Now marijuana should be legalized, but that's a different discussion.

Answer 2

Legalizing drugs so anyone can use anything isn't the answer.

There is a way to legalize access to it so that you get rid of the black market. But there has to be laws on how you take the drugs and put them in your body.

There has to be education on what they do and if someone is going to use they have to things they can and can't do.

Handling the reason for addiction is the most important thing and will help people not become addicted or in some cases never even touch drugs because they have handle the reason they would have in the first place.

It is a long road and not something we can do tomorrow - but that would be the most ideal.

Answer 3

we could pay off the national debt with the taxes on drugs
Half the people in jail would not be there for getting high.so That would save many many many billions of tax dollars
children would not be taken away from there parents for raising a pot plant
Ronald Reagan and all his cabinet said we should legalize all drugs
your smarter them them? or you?
no more drug gangs if it all was legal and inexpensive
very very little drug related murders and robberies
I do not do drugs i like my body.I take medicinal herbs and vitamins and eat right but this is supposed to be a free country. if someone comes to work high on anything they should be fired,
or punished is driving and being high, that goes now with other substances
The benefits to society would be enormous if they would legalize all drugs.
people do them any ole way
its not the governments business what people do if it doesn't hurt someone else,
suicide included
the feds or trying to control everyone, its time we stand up and say NO
I demand my rights

and by the way. Junk food kills millions every year
doctors mistakes kill about 750,000 in this country every year

and driving vehicles do also cause a million or so deaths every year
you wish to outlaw all of that?
no honey buns.cars or doctors?

we Should outlaw war. unless were attacked,not attack because some country might maybe could sometime if do something we dont approve off.now That is wierd & evil to kill hundreds of thousands of ennocents for no good reason

Answer 4

Well ALL we have now is black market so what's the difference? I don't think legalizing hard drugs will change a thing. However I see drug users and drug pushers in completely different categories. It's utterly insane to arrest some guy who just scored and throw the book at him when you know damn well it's not a drop in the bucket. I think they should stop arresting users and spend their time on the big guns - importers and drug lords. Of course if we stopped the so-called "war on drugs" things would change. When you resist things they grow. Drugs have been around since time immemorial and so have drug users and abusers but it's reached out of control levels since this push to eradicate it.

A bigger question should be why do so many people feel they can't face their lives without being drugged? Something's wrong with a society that turns out so many people who for one reason or another feel coping is just too much for them.

Answer 5

Well, the theory is that the less things that are listed as "crimes", the less criminals there would be.

I think if marijuana was legalized, there would be a lot fewer arrests. Many argue that it is no more of an "evil" than alcohol, so it should be as available. Also, the government could control the quality, and charge a nice little tax, too!

Sometimes it is difficult to agree with some of these ideas, but I think you are very correct in asking "How", because at least you get the chance to look at and evaluate the reasons behind these ideas.

It would make for an excellent debate!!!

Answer 6

Perhaps alcoholics also don't belong in society the same way as drug addicts. But nobody is talking anymore of making alcohol illegal.

They've tried Prohibition of alcohol in 1930's. And all they got was a lot of alcohol associated crime and violence. Making alcohol a legally available drug got rid of a lot of that crime.

Perhaps legalization will work the same way with modern addictive drugs such heroin and cocaine.

Answer 7

It has to do with the fact that we waste our police resources and jail cells on drug users who are not a danger to society. I'm not talking about hard-core meth users who steal for their habit. I'm talking about the pot-smoking stoner who does no harm to anyone, but ends up getting thrown into the system, becomes a bad criminal on the inside to survive, then gets out of jail, can't get a job, gets depressed, goes bad on drugs (this time harder ones) and then uses all the things he learned IN PRISON to commit bigger and more violent crimes.

That's what knee-jerk conservatives don't understand. The fact that we are lumping all people in the same category, not giving them any options AFTER getting out of jail, and then people wonder why they resort to worse crimes AFTER going to jail.

We put more people in jail then all of Europe combined, more than Russia, more than China!!! Talk about a police state!!!

When will conservatives on this issue realize we are creating our own problems by making every person who smokes a joint a criminal the same as an armed robber. The smoker will learn how to become a robber while in jail. And since we offer little rehabilitation (before or after jail), then the result is inevitably the same.

Being tough on crime sounds good. But it's NOT good if what happens is that you create more crime.

Stop the knee-jerk reaction of throwing everyone in jail and learn to get to the root of the problems.

If we didn't waste our resources on victimless crimes, we'd be able to work more on the violent crimes far more.

Answer 8

I don't think all drugs should be legal, just the ones that are no worse for you than alcohol or cigarettes, like, say, marijuana.

However, legalizing drugs would decrease the amount of people that are put in jail for using... since it wouldn't be a crime anymore, which would, technically, mean less crime...

Answer 9

they dont? then why are so many of us using? most of us dont bother anyone. stay in our homes and do it in the privacy of it also. way to many casual pot smokers are locked up. but they dont harm anyone. i think we should use the jails and prison for way more serious crimes. and sure the ones who scam and steal to get the crack or meth..if you make FEW drugs legal thats more space in the jails for people who have actually commited a crime. pot is natural thats why i think it should be legal! its a hard world but you must remember some of us have seen what you have. and if drug users as you would call them dont belong then half of the world would be gone. and one more thing drinking isnt illegal and that kills way more than pot. and most americans go out to drink think of that

Answer 10

I agree and want to commend you for having the ball$ to get off the stuff! Legalizing drugs do not decrease crime and for those who think it does they need to do some research on foreign countries(i.e. Holland).
http://www.daca.org.au/other_drugs/holland.htm

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