End the "War on Drugs", decriminalize ALL drugs

Ending the Prohibition certainly lowered alcohol related crime.

 

These drugs are already in our lives, no?

 

Pass the popcorn...

 

This topic is another reason why I feel states rights should be stronger. If people want to live in a community where certain drug use is tolerated, have at it. If groups of people don't mind paying for a drug addicts rehab costs via local/regional/state laws, then have at it.

Now, if people don't want to pay for a persons cruddy decisions to use heroin for example, then there should places in this country where a person shouldn't have to fork over money to help a person who repeatedly doesn't want or care to help themselves.

We all don't have to be the same in order to be Americans and to care for one another and when the time comes, to kick in and protect one another for our freedom to make choices at a much smaller level than the federal government.

 

Yes they are Hooker. We have tons of drugs already in our lives and we already act nutty as a society. I know what you are trying to tease out and believe me, if we had it my way, many things would be legalized and people would just bare the pain of their own mistakes instead of government being required to be involved.

 

Weed was once thought of as an illicit drug that "responsible" people would not partake in. Now over 50% of the country has used it? You tell me.

 

How many tried drinking first?

How many folks who have smoked marijuana never moved onto harder drugs?

 

and then people realized weed was pretty harmless

 

We also have a tendency as a society to somehow equate man made laws with "God's" law, hence demonizing people who violate these man made laws. Like someone sitting on their back porch smoking a joint is the devil him/herself/itself.

 

Over 50%? I don't buy that stat.

 

Related crime, maybe. Deaths?

CDC - Fact Sheets-Alcohol Use And Health - Alcohol

 

So we should also outlaw fast food, correct?

 

We should bubble wrap everyone.

 

Maybe I'm a little off on my stats, but if 41% of the entire pupulation has smoked pot, and you take out all the children under say 15, I'm guessing your sitting at about 50%.

Over 100 Million Americans Have Smoked Marijuana -- And It's Still Illegal? | Alternet

 

Fast food and drugs are the same? Kind of stretch?

 

Societal wise? Yes.

Health wise? Not much of a stretch

 

Junk food has been proven to be addictive and destroys lives through obesity and heart disease.

So no, not much of a stretch at all, IMO.

 

It will become more prevalent and open. Plus, being able to lock them up once such activity becomes known.

That doesn't happen if it is decriminalized.



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So how do you explain that the opposite has happened in Portugal?

 

Stats can be very misleading.



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