what wouild happen if people were not punished for illegal drug use? what would happen to our society?

Answer 1

You mean if drugs (all of them) were legal? I BELIEVE, again I don't know, that our society would continue as normal. Admit it, everybody knows how to get drugs, and everybody chooses weather they take them or not, so making them legal wouldn't really change much. Hell, many of the drugs would probably be commercialized so no more money going into the black market and more going back into circulation and into your governments pocket (which is better in my opinon).

Answer 2

Before the pure food and drug act.....
All substances known to man were legal.


The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided for federal inspection of meat products, and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products or poisonous patent medicines.

There were three types of medicines often containing cocaine--topical anesthetics such as toothache powders, catarrh medicines for relieving head and chest congestion, and medicinal (probably also recreational) cocaine-containing wines advocated for their numerous beneficial effects.
Early Coca-Cola syrup label listing ingredients. Even after the cocaine was removed from the coca leaves used to make Coca Cola (c. 1906), the product was still sold for its medicinal effects. Today the company generally refuses to comment on the use of coca leaves in their product.

Opiate-based formulations were probably even more widely employed than those containing cocaine. Laudanum had been in use for over two centuries, and the isolation of morphine in the early 19th century (c. 1803/1817) and the later development of heroin (c. 1898) were lauded as even more effective remedies.
Modern authors usually suggest that widespread opium use was a major health problem during the 19th century. However, the use of opiates must be kept in proper perspective with other contemporary health problems. Mortality from cholera, malaria, and dysentery was very high, and opiates provided some relief from these illnesses (Opiates remain the most effective treatment for dysentery.). Some authors have suggested that the easy availability of opiate-based medicines saved more lives than it took. As the deleterious effects of chronic opiate use became increasingly recognized during the late 19th century, several factors helped ease the need for opiates: the improvements in sanitation diminished cholera and dysentery, the drainage of swamp lands decreased malaria, and the introduction of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin; 1899) provided an alternative medicine for moderate pain relief.

Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.

http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm

Answer 3

It's really like a real dilema for the government to punish someone for partaking of the weed. Don't they realize that herb is not a problem for the one's that want to get into themselves deeper. Compared to alcohol I have found that herb is much less dangerous and people that smoke it really know what bag their head is in. It is something that should not be wrong to partake of in order to get intouch with a different reality and to understand the deeper meaning of a true cosmic reality of the spirit.
What was the question?
I'm hungry man!

Answer 4

The same thing that is already happening, at he moment the drug cartels have moved from Colombia to just
south of our border, within a very short time they will be in the US, and you will find that a lot of our congressmen will suddenly become very wealthy, The war on drugs and the DEA is pure baloney, drugs rule and soon the cartels will be operating from our border towns like El Paso, Laredo, and San Diego. just wait and see.

Answer 5

i think that if they weren't punished then they would continue to use the drugs and the drug dealers would get richer while the government will lose money because people will be busy doing illiegal drugs instead of paying the government for the legal drugs like alcohol and cigarettes.

Answer 6

I shudder thinking about it, boy am I glad that illegal drug use are illegal

Answer 7

Every third house in your neighborhood would have a meth lab in the garage.

Why?