There are plenty of drug addicts who became addicted as children. Do we really want to say that it's okay to enslave America's children? Do we really want to say that it's okay to enslave americans of any age? Didn't we already have that discussion?
2007-10-01 06:40:58 · 14 answers · asked by Guardian 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Narcotics are already legal. I meet people everyday that are addicted to prescription drugs. The only difference: Who is the pusher?
Addicted as children: from a small age kids are taught medications are the answer to their problems. ADD so many kids are on Ritalin and Adderall. People never stop to think is this the right thing to do?
Just as they swallow whatever news the corporations cram down our throats they swallow whatever pills the drug companies say are good for them.
2007-10-01 06:48:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Uh, no. I don't recall having any rational discussion of drug policy.
Legalizing drugs would be the opposite of promoting slavery.
The law is not a good way to deal with a medical problem.
Leaving drugs entirely in the handsw of criminals makes for MORE addicts, especially child addicts.
No trying to use the law (which, in case you haven't noticed, is completely ineffective) to solve a medical problem is not legalizing slavery; it's using our brains, for a change.
2007-10-01 23:54:37 · answer #2 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Slavery strips the slave of all rights and all choice. It is enforced by the full weight of law.
2) Addicts/alcoholics have a choice, and have rights. They can seek treatment they can say no. It is one's own personal hell.
3) While I am neither slave addict or alcoholic, Alcoholism and drug addiction run rampant through my family. We were share croppers back before my time.
4) Slavery is worse by far. Legalizing drugs forces no one to use them but de-criminalizes "social use". Slavery is the forces subjugation of a class of people who have no choice in the situation
2007-10-01 13:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Children are targeted by drug sellers because they are a huge MARKET. It comes down to market forces. If there is a huge profit to be made on a product, aggressive salespeople will find a way to make a buck on it. The massive profitability of illicit drug sales is the result of an artificial shortage caused by it's illegal nature. If it is legalized, the bottom will drop out of the market, and the incentive to expand market diminishes.
2007-10-01 13:47:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you want to talk about "slavery", let's discuss why America has more people in it's prisons than any other so-called industrialized country. Most federal prisoners are locked up for using drugs.
If only they'd stuck to Xanax, alcohol and tobacco, eh?
2007-10-01 14:11:28 · answer #5 · answered by obl_alive_and_well 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
Nanny-govt. laws should be struck down as unconstitutional.
As for drug addicted kids, look to the parents. Where are the parents at, 99% of the time, in these cases?
2007-10-01 13:46:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well the drug trade is so big today because the illicit part where the price is jacked up and believe me the government is all part of the drug trade and we are all SLAVES to the damn American corporations already!!!!!!!
2007-10-01 13:45:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Addiction is indeed slavery. That is exactly why these drugs should not be legal.
2007-10-01 13:43:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
Espresso, I just had a case involving allegations of 5 teens, several guns, a shooting, and a business-owner emptying his cash register.
Pot and alcohol.
2007-10-01 13:53:22 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legalizing these drugs would allow us to treat this problem as the health issue it is, rather than the criminal issue it is not
2007-10-01 13:45:40 · answer #10 · answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋