America's shitty Drug Plan finally Collapses

[coconutman]

RPM i disagree with you. What about alcohol? So many innocent people die due to alcohol related accidents. If that crackhead wouldn't be in that situation if drugs were legal. There are always two sides to everything. But it's all about money and polictics, the government could care less about us.

 

[BooksWorstEnemy]

RPM,

My father-in-law just died from diabetes. He drank a lot of beer and his diet was fried everything. I just lost a loved one to beer and poor diet. Should we outlaw beer and fried foods?

It may happen occassionally that a druggie kills an innocent person because they were so stoned out of their mind they didn't know what they were doing. Drunk drivers kill a lot of innocent people each year too. Are you a fan of bringing back prohibition?

Later,
DFW Area Landscaper

 

[DELSOLII]

People's lives and reputations should not be ruined for a joint.

loosen up.



Sol II

 

[newton0038]

That's a myth. Coca-Cola has'nt contained cocaine since 1929.


http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

Go pull somebody else's leg :shoota:

The leaf is still used today as a "FLAVOURING AGENT ONLY" the narcotic effects are obviously long gone. Dominic Streatfield recently wrote an "unauthorized biography" on Cocaine. Interesting read going from the Icas chewing leaf to todays social drain by the drug and it's derivatives.

Coca-Cola still uses the leaf flavour extract as far as I know.:think2:

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99040.htm

 

[TheGeneral+]

I think this gets better firepower in the political room.

Good topic

 

[Marco]

All the prohibition of alcohol did was create guys like Al Capone.

Drugs, prostitution, gambling.

Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it.

Most of the problems of consensual crimes are created because of the illegality of them, when it is illegal you drive the industry underground, creating a huge untaxed black market, creating an industry that dealers make huge money off of and kill to keep, users that commit crimes to pay for a habit that would be affordable if legalized, and clog the courts and prisons with cases that wouldn't exist if the whole enterprise was legal.

There are only two choices:

A) You can have consensual crimes and pay billions to try to eradicate them.

B) Or you can have consensual crimes and generate billions of dollars from them and reduce the burden on police, courts, prisons, and the whole system.

Either way you will have consensual crimes, like it or not they have been around for centuries and are here to stay. People are going to get high, people are going to get laid, people are going to gamble.

 

[eek.]

Alchohol is a major problem, even though its been legalised.
A huge percentage of violence in the UK is directly related to booze consumption, especially with young males.

I reckon pot/hash is OK but I wouldn't like to see the harder stuff legalised.

I'm sceptical that legalising harder drugs would solve the problem.
As I've said before, legalising opium in China was a fricking disaster, 10 to 15% of the population became serious users.