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.
Yes, you have a point that if drugs were legal that there wouldn't be as many deaths caused by shootings over drugs. BUT if drugs were legalized then there would be a lot more deaths caused by the drugs themselves. The drugs could be bought at a gas station! Also there would be no use for the DEA. And in California you can legally grow marijuana with a doctors letters(no ideas!) And those doctor letters are easily obtainable. I was watching the history channel and they said that people in California buy houses to grow marijuana. And that they can easily make 1/4mil a year. And even with the drugs legalized in California, there are robberies of the weed for the money.
Many posts talk about how people die from drugs. get real. youre more likely to die falling out of the bed than smoking weed, apparently. plus, a car crash will kill you faster than a herion overdose. they shouldnt be made legal in my opinion because of the effects they do have, but get real with some of the arguments. "drugs are bad" LOL. aye, alright.
Drugs aren't legalized mostly because drugs can mess you up badly, like give you mental problems, or can mess you up emotionally. And like what evryone else said, you can die from drugs.
I would say legalize, but only to Hemp (aka Marijuana/Cannabis/Weed), in the form of, commercial farming, for the creation of Biofuels. Hemp has been found to be the best plant to grow for biofuel, in the fact that it is 80% cellulose. An acre of mature, farmed hemp, would easily create 10tons or more of biofuels, in 80-120 days. For the next best plant, trees, it takes years to grow that much. Hemp that mature, and well grown would only be good for biofuels, the drug quality of it being so low, it wouldn't be worth squat. This would be a viable way to fuel vehicles, and to stop global warming. Only 7-8% of America's farmland would be needed to fufill the current quota for fuel.
I would say legalize, but only to Hemp (aka Marijuana/Cannabis/Weed), in the form of, commercial farming, for the creation of Biofuels. Hemp has been found to be the best plant to grow for biofuel, in the fact that it is 80% cellulose. An acre of mature, farmed hemp, would easily create 10tons or more of biofuels, in 80-120 days. For the next best plant, trees, it takes years to grow that much. Hemp that mature, and well grown would only be good for biofuels, the drug quality of it being so low, it wouldn't be worth squat. This would be a viable way to fuel vehicles, and to stop global warming. Only 7-8% of America's farmland would be needed to fufill the current quota for fuel.
I would say legalize, but only to Hemp (aka Marijuana/Cannabis/Weed), in the form of, commercial farming, for the creation of Biofuels. Hemp has been found to be the best plant to grow for biofuel, in the fact that it is 80% cellulose. An acre of mature, farmed hemp, would easily create 10tons or more of biofuels, in 80-120 days. For the next best plant, trees, it takes years to grow that much. Hemp that mature, and well grown would only be good for biofuels, the drug quality of it being so low, it wouldn't be worth squat. This would be a viable way to fuel vehicles, and to stop global warming. Only 7-8% of America's farmland would be needed to fufill the current quota for fuel.
Actually jjbb18, in Holland, and other countries in the Netherlands where drugs are legalized, there are some of the lowest recorded drug-related crimes. That, and the government makes a lot of money from taxation of drugs, so many people don't bother. So, drugs there, is more like cigarettes in England, where they are overly taxed. Have you ever heard of a crime comitted because someone needed cigarettes?
