2007-12-12 13:43:57 · 14 answers · asked by stefan h 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
No. (But I am not too sure)
There is an argument for legalistation of drugs. I agree that drug funded crime will fall if drugs are legal, and therefore cheaper, but it is the health issues that I am concerned with.
Cocaine for example is linked to paranoia, strongly so. Also, there is no safe way for trying to get people off it, without going through cold turkey.
I agree that heroin should be legal, and its use confined to taking it under medical supervision, mainly because pure heroin has few long term effects. Also, there are several different ways of getting people of heroin. The same argument I guess could be made with speed, E and LSD. But Cocaine, no.
2007-12-12 18:23:09 · answer #1 · answered by The Patriot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Legalising recreational drugs would stop people criminalising themselves for a bit of fun. People will be addicts regardless of legality. Drug addicts should be able to get their fix off a doctor, (as the term "addict" denotes illness) rather than have to rob some poor granny of her pension to get it. Anything people like, there will be addicts that abuse that thing, be it cocaine, heroin, cigarettes, alcohol, food. Obesity kills more people than cigarettes now, but fat people can still go buy a Macdonald's if they chose. Legalise all drugs, make them pure, control them, tax them. Get the dealers out of the picture. Stop the drug money going to funding ciminals. There are many issues to iron out, this i have no doubt, but legalising ALL drugs, is the next efficiant step.
As it is, anyone can go out and get high and monged whenever they please. I'm just saying, control the substance and make it safer to do so.
I myself have tried some drugs, but i am in no way an addict. I am an intelligent person that believes in my self and my own responsibility. I have read up on all kinds of drugs and see the positives and downsides of them all. Look up Bill Hicks. Look up the drugs you advocate against. If it weren't for drugs, we wouldnt have a lot of the awesome music we have from the 60's and 70's. "we all live in a yellow submarine"??? i'm sure we would do if we were all on LSD...
If someone drives a car whilst drunk and is caught, do we all shout "ALCOHOL IS BADDDD"? No, we don't. It is the person that is banned from driving. It is the person that is fined. Because, it is the PERSON that should know better.
2007-12-12 13:50:43 · answer #2 · answered by rebecca.suter 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't feel any drug should be legalized except for Marijuana. Besides, the States themselves should be able to choose what should. I feel it the above: Cocaine, E, Heroine, LSD and Speed are very dangerous. That would be like saying it is OK to do them. That is my opinion.
2007-12-12 13:52:38 · answer #3 · answered by Sasha 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Of course. The farce of a "War on Drugs" will be done with, gangsters would be deprived of a majot source of income, the crime rate would drop because there would no longer be any profit in it. The junkies now will still be junkies but do less damage.
2007-12-12 13:54:03 · answer #4 · answered by Bob H 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
yes The constitutional writings say we own our body to do with it as we please as long as it doesnt hurt any one else
That to put drugs in the hands of one group of people would create a bastil of medicine
Its slavery of the people by govt - . One bound in servitude as the property of a person or household.
2. One who is abjectly subservient to a specified person or influence
More deaths are caused
by people not being qualified making them
people buying them not knowing what is in it
never knowing the dosage as its never the same on the street
unscrupulous people cutting them with harmful things
unscrupulous people selling them to kids
violence from gangs supported by the high street prices
makes criminals out of nonviolent citizens
destroys families imprisons the main supporters causing women and children forced to get state aid
costs billions in tax dolars imprisoning nonviolent citizens
Breeds corruption in in our police and govt
Has been used as a tool to evoke more rights of citizens
Benifits of legalization
drugs made in a pharmacy would be safe
the dosage would be the same all the tiime
you could monitor the amount some one was buying
you could put warnings on the label about side affects or mixing with other drugs
you would have to be of legal age to buy them
the quality would be better and the price would be cheaper eliminating unscrupulous people on the street selling them
you could tax them increasing revenue to govt
it would eliminate the large profits that support gangs
with no money to support the gangs they would disappear along with the violence over areas they control
(if you take food from a mean dog he soon gets weak and dies)
Police could concentrate on violent crimes where some one is victimized
Prisons would not be over crowded and be used to keep violent preditors off the street
2007-12-12 15:18:32 · answer #5 · answered by dollars2burn4u 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Only if you wish for complete chaos and death.
Politically I am a libertarian and even I don't think this would be responsible behavior. Before 1934 heroin and opium were legal. Check history to find why that was changed.
2007-12-12 13:50:04 · answer #6 · answered by Jeff L 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. People use these drugs (which causes a mind altering effect) and thus having them makes choices they normally wouldn't make. Normally I would not care, but people DO actually drive and preform normal work duties. This does endanger others and cause deaths.
2007-12-12 13:54:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
definitely not recreation use to me play time when i was a kid a bit of pot seemed harmless even that I have changed my mind about no drug is good in your body we have lost the word of fun we seem to have to put a substance in our body to have fun we've really lost the plot I'm afraid
2007-12-12 13:57:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Cannabis, Shrooms, and LSD should be legalized. Possibly E. everything else id say no.
(Cigarettes should be illegal)
2007-12-12 13:51:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
since when was that crap a recreational drug they are illegal only MUGS take DRUGS .ask the parents of kids O.D on the s...t and see what they say.
2007-12-12 20:31:02 · answer #10 · answered by country bumpkin [sheep nurse] 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋