Come to London 🙂.
Further more, it doesn't matter. People waste away on the streets through being evicted or losing their jobs. If that's your reason for banning certain drugs, it's faulty.
You don't like heroin, I don't like heroin. I like shrooms. That doesn't mean I'm gonna say "Make shrooms legal! You have no right to control what I take!" "Yeah make heroin legal! You have no right to..." "No no. Heroin is bad. Sorry, can't let you do that to yourself."
Yeah, see how all your freedom remarks now seem hollow and filled with not much.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Also, you can't say to keep a certain drug on the illegal side and have the drugs you deem good on the legal side. That's not the way it works. Because to someone, heroin deserves to be on the legal side. If you don't like it's effects, don't take it. It's that simple.-AC
Sure you can. Of course there are negative side effects to any drug you take. Smoking pot can give you lung cancer in teh long run. Cocain, etc. But, there are also drugs that have terrible side effects. I know I said cocain should stay illegal, but I miswrote that. I think that natural drugs should be legal, but things like ecstacy are truely bad for you. Special K is a horse tranquilizer for gods sake. When my aunt went nuts and checked into a mental hospital, she was there with a 19 year old guy that had fried his brain on X.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
I always liked the one with th eguys at the drivethru of a fast food resturant, and they are laughing and hi and as they drive off they run over the little girl on the bike.
that one was great 😂
i love the one that links smoking pot with terrorism.
yes, pot caused 9-11...thats it...and remember that big tsunami? yup...weed
remember tha holocaust? guess what set those nazis off....take a wild guess...
Drugs should not be legalized. There would be several direct and indirect costs to society at large:
higher public health care cost
increased governemental spending on health spending as a result of fetal deformities, drug-related diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, auto accidents, on-the-job accidents (i.e. firefighters),
loss of productivity due to worker absenteeism (economy would suffer enormously), more drug-induced violence, child abuse, educational impairment, etc.
The problem is the addictiveness of drugs. Consumption of drugs would rise speedily due to the addictive qualities of drugs. Thus the effects of the negatives mentioned above would increase exponentially. It would be a never ending cycle.
The freedoms of the individual falter against the necessity of order.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Come to London 🙂.Further more, it doesn't matter. People waste away on the streets through being evicted or losing their jobs. If that's your reason for banning certain drugs, it's faulty.
You don't like heroin, I don't like heroin. I like shrooms. That doesn't mean I'm gonna say "Make shrooms legal! You have no right to control what I take!" "Yeah make heroin legal! You have no right to..." "No no. Heroin is bad. Sorry, can't let you do that to yourself."
Yeah, see how all your freedom remarks now seem hollow and filled with not much.
-AC
I'm not going to argue with you. It's my opinion. Don't attack me because I don't agree with you. Sure people end up on the streets for different reasons, but heroin is going to ruin your life. If it is legal, then it should be dished out like pain pills.
Originally posted by Draco69
Drugs should not be legalized. There would be several direct and indirect costs to society at large:higher public health care cost
increased governemental spending on health spending as a result of fetal deformities, drug-related diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, auto accidents, on-the-job accidents (i.e. firefighters),
loss of productivity due to worker absenteeism (economy would suffer enormously), more drug-induced violence, child abuse, educational impairment, etc.
The problem is the addictiveness of drugs. Consumption of drugs would rise speedily due to the addictive qualities of drugs. Thus the effects of the negatives mentioned above would increase exponentially. It would be a never ending cycle.
The freedoms of the individual falter against the necessity of order.
all symptoms of alcohol abuse as well.
so i take it you support the prohibition of alcohol?
if not, that pure hypocracy
Originally posted by PVS
that one was great 😂i love the one that links smoking pot with terrorism.
yes, pot caused 9-11...thats it...and remember that big tsunami? yup...weed
remember tha holocaust? guess what set those nazis off....take a wild guess...
Well, about the commercial where they run over the little girl, a fat woman eager to graze on her fries could do the same thing.
Originally posted by PVS
all symptoms of alcohol abuse as well.
so i take it you support the prohibition of alcohol?
if not, that pure hypocracy
Alcohol doesn't have anywhere near the addictive qualities of illegal drugs. We as a country have the supply to meet the demands. For illegal drugs we do not.
Originally posted by Draco69
Alcohol doesn't have anywhere near the addictive qualities of illegal drugs. We as a country have the supply to meet the demands. For illegal drugs we do not.
alcohol is not as addictive as 'illegal drugs'. as if all 'illegal drugs' have the same level of addictiveness and alcohol is legal because it is below that line.
nonesense.
pot for example is IN NO WAY chemically addictive whereas alcohol is.
Marijuana? Maybe. Crack? Absolutely not.
I've seen alot of good arguements for both sides. But people have failed to introduce economics or globalization. For example, the Netherlands has the most lax drug policy in the world. Unfortunately this has attracted a mass influx of "drug tourists". Healthcare costs are through the roof. While it is conceivable that affluent countries could soften the worst consequences of drug legalization through extensive public prevention and drug treatment programs, what about the poorer countries.
We spend billions of dollars a year treating the negative consequences of alchohol and tobacco. Can you imagine how much money we would have to spend to treat the effects of newly-legalized drugs? It would be devastating.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
Sure you can. Of course there are negative side effects to any drug you take. Smoking pot can give you lung cancer in teh long run. Cocain, etc. But, there are also drugs that have terrible side effects. I know I said cocain should stay illegal, but I miswrote that. I think that natural drugs should be legal, but things like ecstacy are truely bad for you. Special K is a horse tranquilizer for gods sake. When my aunt went nuts and checked into a mental hospital, she was there with a 19 year old guy that had fried his brain on X.
No, you can't. It's selfish and ignorant.
Heroin has terrible side effects, yeah we get the idea. What's your point? Because you don't like it, no one should be able to take it? What business is it of yours what drugs someone takes and what happens to them when they do?
So what if ecstacy is bad for you? How bad for YOU is it if you never take it? Not bad at all. So you stick to that and let others take what they want, otherwise you're a hypocrite.
Backfire nailed it.
Pot, biggest cash crop in America. Legalise it and kiss the deficit goodbye. Same with all drugs.
-AC
Originally posted by TheAnimal
alcohol is worse than drugs. because alcohol causes more spouse abuse and divorces every minute of every day.
That's faulty. And actually bolsters my arguement. Alcohol is widespread and easily bought. Imagine what would happen if drugs were legalized? The number of divorces and child abuse statistics would rise dramatically.
ONE drug (alcohol) causes devastating effects to society. Why legalize a whole strew of them to plague society.
People, when you mention alcohol you just happen to help the arguement for con drug legalization.