Should all drugs be legalized ? ( Archived) (48)

I'm not interested in throwing addicts in jail, however, I reckon that full legalisation would to a legal version of preying on losers. Suits pushing drugs harder than the dealers ever did using the government, courts and media that they own.

Basically put I'm skeptical of it turning out like Portugal and actually becoming more like the opioid crisis in America. The law will be used by the forces of corruption to prey upon losers in a way that would make a heroin dealer blush.

legalizing illegal drugs is a sign of stupidity of any city state or country. the druggies end up loosing money. then u would basically also have to go thru the system and throw out millions of drug cases.

considering very strong prescription drugs are available to some and they also get sold on the black market...i think it's happen already....they just use a different name and it's just tablets instead of needles

Hello mr mackenzie... what is your daily illegal drug use like?

I think we're all surrounded by people heavily dependent on drugs. Casual recreational drug use in the norm in society, even you admit on your profile to occasionally taking a recreational drug.

What about when alcohol was an illegal drug? The era of prohibition?

At the end of the progressive era they tried to instill an age of discipline that resulted in two world wars and the Holocaust. The establishment was terrified of the freedoms and luxuries that modern society made possible so it manufactured a crisis to get people when they're down. How else do we turn people into a stern father without vital reason? Invent a reason to be punitive and unkind because nothing a lowlife likes more than lowering the status of other lowlifes.

At any rate if you must have strict laws then you need to do it through crime detection. It's that people think they're going to get caught which deters crime not the harsh punishment that comes with being really bad at catching criminals. The will to let's just say guilty and cut out their tongue that so often comes with not really knowing if you've got the right guy. To deter crime you need to make it understood that people who are actually guilty can be caught rather than mutilating the guy who probably didn't do it but you desperately need the result.

But unfortunately this isn't the way it goes. Being strict, punishing people brutally, and not really knowing/caring if you've got the right guy come in a package. That making an example of someone has the opposite effect, it's an example to all the guilty that they're no better off being innocent. It's worse than doesn't work.

We've seen over the years making drugs illegal does not work, it just creates criminals and crimnal behaviour. What would be a better approach would be trying to find out why so many people need to use so many drugs. Criminalising and jailing people who have become addicted to drugs is just not the answer. It's a bit like pulling countless people out of a river without bothering to go upstream to see why they're falling in.
It's not so much the use of drugs that's the problem, more the misuse and the most commonly misused drug by far is alcohol. The figures for alcohol related deaths and injuries are horrific, not to mention the damage to society that it causes.
Society has a drug problem, that's for sure, be it recreational or medicinal, but prohibition hasn't worked and probably never will.
A new approach has to be found, de-criminalisation has to be looked at and considered.

I havn't read past your first sentence.

What part of "cigarettes and alcobol are drugs" don't you understand.

If the hysterical anti drug lobby could accept that many of those calling for tougher sentences for drug users are also drug users, maybe a sensible debate could take place and move things forward in the right direction.

Thats what I always said. I end up into drugs because I didn't know any better and I was looking for a escape from my life. Fix the issues that make people turn to drugs and you will see far less people into it. Education and a better society would go a long way.

yeah, let's see how many more people can kill themselves on opioids....

on the surface doesn't seem like a very good idea. Very high probability of
people killing themselves on drug interaction based on what they may ingest.