ForumsWEPRDrugs: Why not legalize?

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Devoidless
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The topic says it all.

Why do governments feel the need to make drugs illegal? If anything, it causes a lot more problems than there were before. If they were legalized, there would not be nearly as many violent actions over getting them since the prices would not be nearly as high. There would not been as many people over doing it with drugs, since it would eventually just become a normal thing in day-to-day life.

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nonconformist
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Trust me, if a majority of people were for the legalization of drugs, than we could all be snorting coke right now. But the drug-legalization crowd is no majority, and it won't be for a long time, if ever.
Well to be honest, if this was the ccase MJ will become legal in a matter of 20-30 yrs. Our generation loves MJ, and only a select few aren't wanting to do it.

Naruto
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If they were legal then there would be alot of bad things happening around the world.

DDX
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If they were legal then there would be alot of bad things happening around the world.


yea care to explain? because obviously you didnt bother to read the last few pages at all.
FireflyIV
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The government makes things illegal for a reason. They don't just whip around and say "Let's ban cannabis" on a whim. The government would make tobacco and alcohol illegal too, but the public wouldn't allow it. They did do it once, but it failed. The citizens wouldn't stand for it.


The government also used to sanction racial segregation laws, and many people were very pissed off when they removed these, but was it the right thing to do?

Vox populi is a dangerous principle, because the majority is not always right. Neither does legislation equate to morality. Were the anti semitic laws created in Germany 1933-45 right/just?
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If china doesnt have a problem its because they KILLED all of the drug addicts when they became commies prully still do.
disicpline doesnt have anything to do with it, people have been using drugs forever and always will its just part of us they used to think opium was a gift from the gods.


No, they don't do it that way - They are 'harsh' in some things, but we're too soft, if a murderer is guilty he's only sent to prison for 6 years, that's nothing, Death Sentence and that's that.
If people are too bad they would sometimes give them money to get lost, not murder them, brazilians were coming into either china or Japan, but they gave them enough money to go elsewhere - Not harsh, only fair, really they don't NEED to give them money, it's a precaution, it has everything to do with Discipline and honor, and try to understand what Honor is - nothing you can EVER toy around with, that's how, and the person I quoted, the person who said something below that, that alchahol is a toxin, nothing wrong with it, there's toxic in rain, squash, orange juice apple juice everything, Alchahol is a different toxin but either way it won't harm u if u can control it, moderation, very simple.

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Sacred dragon, your copy and paste skills are remarkable!

sorry for the double post. That's a nice touch.

Your first post was from here:



Your second post was from here:



You know how I knew you plaigarised? Aside from the fact it's obvious due to the symbols.

If drugs ever become legal, be prepared to see me walk around topless - after all, men can do it. Which is more harmful - me walking around with no shirt or me shooting up with crack? I'll be ****ed if people are allowed to shoot up with drugs and I have to wear a top on a blazing hot day in the summer!


I looked at your profile, you are supposedly a 14 year old male.
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XD oooo someone just got f'd in the A... haha probably shoulda looked at wat u were copying and pasting...

Anyways I could tell, because that woulda taken someone about 1-2 hrs to write and think of all that... No one has that amount of free time.

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Sacred dragon, your copy and paste skills are remarkable!

sorry for the double post. That's a nice touch.

Your first post was from here:

http://www.gargaro.com/drugs.html

Your second post was from here:

http://www.cyberessays.com/Politics/85.htm

You know how I knew you plaigarised? Aside from the fact it's obvious due to the symbols.

If drugs ever become legal, be prepared to see me walk around topless - after all, men can do it. Which is more harmful - me walking around with no shirt or me shooting up with crack? I'll be ****ed if people are allowed to shoot up with drugs and I have to wear a top on a blazing hot day in the summer!

I looked at your profile, you are supposedly a 14 year old male.



I am a combat medic, and I diagnose you with an EPIC BURN!


yea there are only a few people who post stuff as good as that. Firefly maybe, and HiddenDistance from what I have seen since I have been here.
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yea there are only a few people who post stuff as good as that. Firefly maybe, and HiddenDistance from what I have seen since I have been here.


First off, I think I speak for both me and Hidden when I say gracias amigo, but I didn't think it was plaigarised because it was 'good stuff', but because of the symbols as well as the aforementioned gender difference. Plus you can just tell they were both articles from the writing style.

Anyway, i think it would be appropriate to remind everyone of this:



As a result, I'll report the user now.

Back to the debate though; until people can come up with valid arguments against the legalisation of all, yes all drugs except ''drugs screw you up dude i mean srsly'' I see no reason why drugs should remain prohibited.
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well have you thought about this of your precious drugs (don't mean to be offensive) this happened in my home town in the late 80's or the early 90's

A guy was using only god knows what drugs in his apartment in the center of the town. Suddenly he hears the doorbell rang. He looks through the peeking hole. He sees two bears he panics. He takes his gun (illegal gun) opens the door and shoots the bears. After this the guy runs out. There he sees lots of tigers about 20. He starts to shoot them and hits few. Few dies and few gets injured. After this the police comes and manages to get the guy.

So now. Those bears were two senior (around 70 years) some religious chaps who went from door to door talking about god or something... and as for the tigers...those were little children around 5 to 7 of age..
So do you need more arguments why all drugs should NOT be legal

and the story is true...even today when the police go around schools talking about how bad drugs are...they use this example.

FireflyIV
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and the story is true...even today when the police go around schools talking about how bad drugs are...they use this example.


Replace those drugs with alcohol. Better yet replace those 20 or so people with the thousands around the world killed due to drunk drivers. It's all relative.
JereN
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Replace those drugs with alcohol. Better yet replace those 20 or so people with the thousands around the world killed due to drunk drivers. It's all relative.


yes...but that is why driving when drinking is illegal. So the drunk drivers is not a defense that works.
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and do you think that drug addict don't kill people around the year?

And did you know that if cigarettes would be discovered today..so most likely they would be illegal because they make you strongly addicted

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well why doesn't the government make cigarettes illegal there similar to drugs...more or less

FireflyIV
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yes...but that is why driving when drinking is illegal. So the drunk drivers is not a defense that works.


Loading up a gun and shooting numerous people is not legal either, the point is the substance in itself is legal.

and do you think that drug addict don't kill people around the year?


As I have stated on this thread many times before, the vast majority of drug users, even for harder drugs, are recreational. A very small percentage of them are full blown addicts.

And did you know that if cigarettes would be discovered today..so most likely they would be illegal because they make you strongly addicted


The same goes for alcohol. My point is that we should level the playing field and stop believing all the BS propaganda claiming that 'drugs are bad', when the legal drugs the governments of the world subsidise do far more harm and cause more social problems.
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