I was just at a wine tasting and then went out for Mexican food. It was great and a good time was had by all. Yay for drinking responsibly with friends! See, it can be done.
That really is awful about your friend GreatandPowerfulTrixie. Absolutely! The war on drugs will never succeed for the simple fact that people want drugs, and thus people will find a way to get them no matter what. We need to stop refusing this fact and instead accept it and work with it, this is what legalisation would do.
There is a country that legalised all drugs at one point and at first, things seemed to be ok. Then the issues arose when it came to class A drugs like cocaine, heroin and the likes. The legalisation led to people dying in droves so they had no choice but to outlaw them again. In other words, I fully support the legalisation of SOME drugs, but not all drugs. Also, thank you for your concern.
The ones that are lethal and highly addictive should be illegal. I.E tobacco,cocaine, heroin and meth.
Make tobacco illlegal? Pfffff Make everything legal. PCP. Meth, heroine, crack, ecstasy and all the rest. Just do it responsibly and by that I mean don't harm others. It's their choice, their life. Let them have fun with it.
I remember reading about the opium wars in China which nearly broke the back of the entire country. I also remember reading about a micronation called "Freetown Christiania" which legalised drugs. They eventually had to ban class A drugs because it was described as "Their version of the Black Plague for a while".
Yep. Besides, just about anyone who's used heroin will tell you that they aren't exactly happy. At least not for the periods in which they don't have a needle in their arm.
^ good example of doing it right I Agree I am suspicious of this conclusion, but I'd have to look into the history of what you are talking about to know if there wasn't another reason that this happened (often, external political or economic reasons influence people's abuse of drugs) I think in principal, The primary reason I don't support drug criminalization is because it is a colossal waste of resources and does not even stop people from doing the drugs. The way the drug war is setup now, at least how it works in the US (And here is where there might be differences of opinion and different solutions for different countries), the users of drugs are attacked and jailed rather than the people actually dealing drugs. I 100% agree that SOME drugs are very very bad, but attacking the victims of these drugs (addicted users) will not solve anything and will just fill our jails with non-violent "criminals" that did nothing to others, only hurt themselves. I say that instead of a war on drugs (aka war on drug users), we should be helping these people get off drugs in a safe and caring setting. This would be made even easier if everyone had healthcare - which in the United States is it's own problem since we neither have good government health options nor universal coverage, and even those who are covered, no one is doing anything to rehabilitate people with hard drug addictions; they just get sent off to jail to either go insane and/or die from withdrawal. IMO this is an unconstitutional means of cruel and unusual punishment. If certain drugs simply MUST be illegal, then criminalize the selling of drugs, and give immunity to users. If you make it so that everyone who uses drugs feels safe enough to tell the police where they got them, then the authorities can actually find and stop the dealers and not waste their time with users. I think the government should be looking for drugs, passively, and when it finds someone addicted to them, give them the option of free rehabilitation or medical care, and in exchange all the person has to do is give up their source. I know this isn't the ideal situation as far as civil liberties are concerned but I think it's a better compromise than our current system where the lowest hanging fruit are instantly jailed and the dealer gets off completely free. I know this post is getting kinda long so I'll wrap up soon. My final comment is just on choosing which drugs should be illegal or not. I think that as a default ALL drugs should start legal and the government will have to make it's case for which drugs should then be made illegal in the way I described above. This decision should be in the best case scenario put to a public vote. If the majority of the voting population agrees with the government's assessment that the drug should be made illegal then, and only then, should the plan go forward. If at any point the public wishes to re-legalize a similar vote should be taken and the results honored.
Heroin is synthesised from morphine. It was created as a non-addictive morphine alternative and was available in drug stores alongside aspirin. Only after a while did everyone realise heroin is even more addictive than morphine (and it actually turns into morphine in the body).
So... what's the problem? The addicts kill themselves with drugs, and by removing their toxic DNA from the gene pool, humanity as a whole is strengthed and moves forward. If people want to poison themselves, let them. The world is too overpopulated, anyway.
It only takes one momentary lapse in judgement. Many very smart, very great people have died from heroin overdoses. Take for example a good friend of mine who died 3-4 years ago because of a lapse in judgement. After that, you'll be hooked.
Addiction is a powerful thing and doesn't take all that much to trigger. It's a mind-distorting state that anybody literally anybody can fall into, even you, so perhaps you'd like to rethink this stance of yours.
Heroin, as an incredibly addictive drug that essentially replaces your endorphins with fake ones that clog up your receptors, is kind of not great. You know what does the exact same thing, except without the addicting or face endorphins part? Running. You know what does that even better? Me.
