Legalization of Drugs - Your Opinion

[Phileas Fogg]

What is your opinion regarding the legal status of drugs in your country? Should drugs become legal comletely, partially, or not at all? Explain and elaborate.

[Enemy of the State]

All drugs should be legalized. It is not up to the government to decide what you do with your body. The job of the police should be to protect people from each other, not themselves.

[LegionnaireX]

All drugs should be legalized. It is not up to the government to decide what you do with your body. The job of the police should be to protect people from each other, not themselves.

No. What you do with your own body can have a direct effect on other people. Take drunk driving for an example. It may not be the government's job to regulate what a person puts in their body, but it is the obligation of society (meaning elements of the government) to help people who are harming themselves.

[Phileas Fogg]

No. What you do with your own body can have a direct effect on other people. Take drunk driving for an example. It may not be the government's job to regulate what a person puts in their body, but it is the obligation of society (meaning elements of the government) to help people who are harming themselves.

Than drunk driving shouldn't be allowed - drinking itself, should.

[Tuor]

I think that it's working and not working the way that it is now. People need something to cling to such as drugs. Legal or illegal, people will keep doing them. There is no stopping that, no matter how hard we think we try. So, really in my opinion it should be left alone. Nothing should be done because there is nothing to gain from legalization other than a few overjoyed stoners and angry housewives.

[Cluny the Scourge]

So, really in my opinion it should be left alone. Nothing should be done because there is nothing to gain from legalization other than a few overjoyed stoners and angry housewives.

You mean apart from ripping out the greater part of the the profits away from organised crime?

You mean apart from freeing up the enormous number of police hours wasted on trying to enforce these ridiculous drugs laws, to be spent on real policing and dealing with real crimes?

No, nothing to be gained at all. It's just for stoners and housewives.

[Enemy of the State]

No. What you do with your own body can have a direct effect on other people. Take drunk driving for an example. It may not be the government's job to regulate what a person puts in their body, but it is the obligation of society (meaning elements of the government) to help people who are harming themselves.

Drunk driving is illegal, drinking is not. The same should be for all drugs.

No no no! I am severly against pot legalizization or any drugs for that matter! Pot leads to worse drugs...its simple as that!

The gateway drug theory has been disproved so long ago, I can't believe there are still any people around that believe it.

And still no to legalization of drugs, simply to defend young humans.

Young humans? Too afraid to say "For the children"?

So, really in my opinion it should be left alone. Nothing should be done because there is nothing to gain from legalization other than a few overjoyed stoners and angry housewives.

1. The billions of dollars spent on the war on drugs everywhere in the world could be spent elsewhere, on much more needed projects.
2. Where do you think street gangs get their money from? If we legalize drugs, the black market ceases to exist, leaving organized crime without funding.
3. Less deaths due to overdose and impure drugs, as we could regulate what is sold.
4. Addicts would no longer be on the streets mugging people to get drugmoney.
5. Taxation of drugs would bring in billions each year
6. New multi-billion dollar industry would emerge

[AqD]

No. What you do with your own body can have a direct effect on other people. Take drunk driving for an example. It may not be the government's job to regulate what a person puts in their body, but it is the obligation of society (meaning elements of the government) to help people who are harming themselves.

No it's not and unwanted. Besides, there is no such thing as "harming themselves". Because "harm" is decided by the person himself. If he doesn't think it's harm, no harm can be done. The government should not interfere unless he asks for it.

[LegionnaireX]

No it's not and unwanted. Besides, there is no such thing as "harming themselves". Because "harm" is decided by the person himself. If he doesn't think it's harm, no harm can be done. The government should not interfere unless he asks for it.

So you think a just government should allow people to ruin themselves?

[Enemy of the State]

So you think a just government should allow people to ruin themselves?

Why not if that is their choice. We shouldn't protect people from themselves.

[AqD]

So you think a just government should allow people to ruin themselves?

No. But I cannot decide what "ruin" means for others, unless they ruin me

[Nutsack]

So you think a just government should allow people to ruin themselves?

Most drugs do not "ruin" a person. It's mostly the person's fault to be ruined in the first place.

A lot of people can responsibly administer themselves heavy narcotics just like any responsible drinker of alcohol.

[Aetius]

All drugs should be legalized. It is not up to the government to decide what you do with your body. The job of the police should be to protect people from each other, not themselves.

Seconded.

[Kiljan Arslan]

All drugs should be legalized. It is not up to the government to decide what you do with your body. The job of the police should be to protect people from each other, not themselves.

To an extent yes. I feel that drugs should be regulated and taxed like any other vice. Although maybe put some laws in place to prevent oligopic or monopolic conditions from emerging.

[Event Horizon]

The outright legalisation of hard drugs is a rediculous notion. Things like Cocaine, Meth, Ecstasy, Heroin are on a different planet compared to cannabis or alcohol, and cannabis is still an extremely dangerous drug to long term users vulnerable to mental illness or personality disorders.

The legal status of hard drugs helps to keep them on the fringes of society, it makes selling them to the wrong people extremely dangerous from a jail time perspective. The culture that has grown up around hard drug usage is defined by the legal implications of those substances. If you alter the legal consequences you wont simply see less jail time or criminalisation of current users, you will see a massive surge in usage across the board.

It's one thing to enjoy a couple of beers, a few joints or your prescription painkillers every night, it's quite another to be pinging out of your skull or lying smacked up on the floor. It would be the pre-cancer warnings cigarette boom all over again, only this time with the hardest chemicals known to the 21st century. I don't know anyone that has been involved in hard drugs that would say it has not affected them in a massive way, whether its a one off party trip or long term abuse.

[bthizle1]

Not trying to be one of those people that scolds someone for asking a question that's already been asked (I do that all the time), but here are some opinions that you may find interesting:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ighlight=Drugs

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=58318

[C-Rob]

Rendered decriminalized. That is the way to go. Dont' punish people who use a little, but the dealers who are supplying vast quantities and grossly profiting off of them simply because of their illegal status.(mostly)

[Gelgoog]

hardcore addictive drugs...NO. Pot, Yes..just legalize it and profit off the taxes and money saved from policing it. I dont see how anyone could be for the legalization of stuff like Heroine, crack, Meth...at least nobody who've ever been around that stuff and seen the lives its ruined.

[RVFVS]

No no no! I am severly against pot legalizization or any drugs for that matter! Pot leads to worse drugs...its simple as that!

[Legionem Insanis]

No no no! I am severly against pot legalizization or any drugs for that matter! Pot leads to worse drugs...its simple as that!

So can alcohol but you know what happened with that.