Perhaps this subject has been posted before. If so, sorry.
Legalize drugs?
How would it hurt America?
How would it help America?
I read somewhere once that the number of alcoholics went up during prohibition, and back down after prohibition… don’t know if that’s true or not.
Pot… A lot of people smoke it. A lot of kids smoke it. The Black Market doesn’t have moral issues with selling to minors. The Black Market doesn’t have moral issues with selling something that’s not pot, as pot, to minors.
If pot were made legal, do you think this would improve? why, or why not?
Would that improvement (if there is one) be worth making pot (or other drugs) legal?
Once, I thought I knew, but I really didn’t know.
Now, I know, because I know I don’t know.
I am a recovering addict. Drugs being illegal never stopped me from using. You could blindfold me, put me on a plane to any moderatly populated city, and I could score any drug inside of an hour. The laws only drove the price up and got dangerous people, lured by the enormous profit created by the risk involved, into distribution.
A statement of fact. Anyone who wants to get drugs, can. The war against drugs is, at best, a complete failure. Only cops, politcians, and dealers benefit. And yes, alcohol is a drug.
And by the way, I have known hundreds of dealers in my past, and none of them tried to intimidate minors into buying dope on the schoolgrounds. I do not know where this stereo-type comes from.
If however the minor has cash and seeks the dealer out, the dealer would rarely pass up a sale.
But legalization would not hurt America. Current statistics make it clear that the drug involved with the most damage and criminal activity is alcohol.
There are too manny casualties in the War on Drugs – our friends, our families, our children, our civil rights. The cost is too high. Let’s admit defeat and move on, fighting against the use of drugs the same way we fight against the use of tobacco and alcohol.
I think the problem is that teenagers think like adults do. Teenagers see adults blindly abuse their bodies with two of the most harmfull drugs (the legal ones, alcohol and nicotine), their whole lifes.
This article is all about the abuse of DXM. And how kids are going to “legal” highs. You can buy cough syrup in the store and get high off it… which is very dangerous, espeically if you grab a cough syrup that has some other active ingrediants in it.
It seems that no matter what, people want to get messed up. People like altering their conscience. The War On Drugs doesn’t stop people from altering their conscience, it just makes it more dangerous, and wastes tons of money…
Yes, sorry if my first message sounded like I was saying that drug dealers target playgrounds… My point was that no matter what age you are, if you can make a decision that you want to get high, you can find something to get high on.
If you want the best information on the subject see http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer Under Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy, you will find the full text of most of the major studies of the drug laws over the last 100 years. If you are new to the online library, I suggest you start your reading with the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs at http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm