Legalize drugs!!?

Question

Just kidding, got your attention though. Anyhoo, I'm helping my little bro w/ a school project. He needs opinions on:
1. Should we legalize all drugs?
2. Should we legalize Marijuana?
2.a.If no, what about Marijuana w/ a Dr.'s prescription?

Please give your answers and a short reason. Also, age, location and race would be very helpful(if you don't mind, if so, no big deal).

Thanks a bunch.

Answer 1

Americans don't understand the meaning of the word liberty, so this debate is irrelevant. The drug war is making a lot of people rich and putting a lot of people behind bars. It is not based on logic, and it has no place in a society where the revolutionary principles had to do with personal liberty. Yes, drugs should be illegal, but should we put people behind bars for using them? I don't think so. Alcohol is far deadlier than many illegal drugs, and we saw how abolishing that worked. A lot of people got rich, and a lot of people went to jail, and the taxpayers had to pay for it. We're repeating our mistakes. Police shouldn't spend so much time and money enforcing such a petty crime, there are far more dangerous elements in society, but they don't make such exciting headlines. The drug laws create street crime, they don't reduce it. If people spent some time studying how crime can be reduced instead of focusing on drug war propaganda, we could clean up our cities. America has this misconception that drug users are the root of the problem, and they're not. The drug laws created more street gangs, and created more organized crime. When are people going to wake up from their fantasy that drugs are evil? They exist. Learn to live with it in the least damaging way possible. This drug war doesn't work.

Answer 2

I am 28 from the greatest state of them all Minnesota. I think that as long as cigarettes, cigars, and alcohol is legal that there is a good argument the some drug should be legal. I think there should be some research into the positive effects some drugs can have. Also think about the extra time our legal system would have if it didn't have to deal with this petty drug stuff. We might actually get some great things done. Now i do not use any drug other than caffeine, which is great by the way, but i really do think that too many people are wrapped up in this drugs are bad thing. I didn't start using drugs because i didn't want to. My parents did a good job of bringing me up where i didn't want to do things like that. I was around it all the time but it just wasn't my thing. I think way too much time is spent on some drugs. Imagine a world were cops don't have to waste tax dollars on undercover operations to arrest and convict and pay for housing a drug dealer. Instead we could take that money and put into school programs about drug abuse. I bet there would be a ton left over too after that. Anyway good luck and don't spill your bong water.

Answer 3

Legalize all drugs NO. Legalize marijuana YES. The only reason pot was made illegal was so the FDR administration could make the mayor of New York look bad. This was because the man called FDR a sorry excuse of a man.

The only reason the Marijuana Tax Act passed was because of a lot of hype. The two cases brought up before congress involved brutal murders. The perpetrators in both cases were schizophrenic. It wasn't pot that drove them to murder it was their illnesses.

If marijuana was legalized and regulated like booze and tobacco there'd be a lot less street crime because the street gangs that deal it would be put out of business.

Answer 4

If California goes ahead with their plan to legalize pot, a good chunk of the problem with the Mexican drug trade would go away overnight! California has already drawn up a plan and a bill has been drafted to go through next year's state legislature (it was in the news last week). The sales tax income alone would wipe out the state deficit within ONE YEAR. There would be huge additional savings from reduction of prison overcrowding because people in prison on marijuana offenses would have to be freed. With California supplying LEGAL weed, there would be NO ILLEGAL DEMAND for weed in one entire state with a Mexican border. And marijuana would be taxed and REGULATED by the government, just like cigarettes and alcohol. This means age limits on sale and consumption, and also TESTING in the workplace if and when necessary (I have had to go through drug and alchohol testing for my job for years, so it makes no difference to me).

Answer 5

yes to all. not that i'm a fan of drugs, i just find it dispicable that the government incarcerates people for getting high. i think it's ridiculous. if the government is going to lock people us, take their money, and break up families, then it should have to be for a real good reason. people getting high is not a real good reason.

and let's be honest. the war on drugs isn't any more effective than the war on terror or the war on crime. it will always be there fighting it the way we are, and we need a new approach. legalizing drugs would pretty much take the crime out of the drug industry, then all that's left to deal with would be people's personal health. set up clinics, classrooms, whatever to deal with and discourage drug use. but being thrown behind iron bars by government forces? no. absolutely not.

Answer 6

Here's my opinion....and for the record, I don't smoke marijuana.

I think it should be legalized and certain laws should be set around it just like there are for alcohol (i.e. 21 and up, no driving under the influence, public intoxication, etc). I see no difference between marijuana use and drinking alcohol. Both impair abilities.
Some consider it a "gateway drug", well I see no difference with alcohol.
It would provide more income for the government and hopefully relieve our taxes.
Lastly, our prisons are over crowded and the marijuana laws changed, it would create more room for the criminals that should be in there.

I don't think they should make all drugs legal. Most others are deadly. No one has ever died from a marijuana overdose.

Answer 7

1. No, meth and other drugs produced under environmentally hazardous conditions should be illegal. Having said that, the federal government has no authority IMO to ban drugs other than those that are imported. Thus the vast majority of drug laws should be state and local ones.

2. I wouldn't lose any sleep over legal pot, prescription or no prescription.

Me: 35, Michigan, white

Answer 8

1. No
2. Maybe
3. Yes, medicinal marijuana is a good thing IMO but unfortunately it's been taken over by a bunch of stoners. A script for a hang nail? GMAB. I believe that is a distraction from the people that can genuinely benefit from it.

Answer 9

white, male, 65, Arizona
1 no I used to think yes, but that was before I saw, close up, how drug use can destroy not only the users, but the people around them. Feel free to ask my Avatar for more details.
2 prob'ly not For the same reason as #1, but at least it is somewhat easier to quit grass than, for instance, meth
3 ok Seems to actually have some value
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Answer 10

Legalize drugs

make a 2 week supply available for 5 cents

Nobody would want to do drugs anymore.