Should drugs be illegal?

[Patashu]

Re: Should drugs be illegal?

My friend smokes weed but he'll never go home after doing it because he's ****ing terrified his parents know. Some people are just dowjn right stupid and want to do it with their friends to fit in.

The question is 'should drug usage be illegal or not'. You seem to be answering the question 'should drug usage be considered immoral by society or not'. It can be both legal AND immoral. Legal because there's no benefit to society if we imprison people who do drugs and those who sell them, because it doesn't stop people (proven) and doesn't stop dealers (proven) and just means outlaws have a huge cash crop. You can think that drug usage is the stupidest mother****ing thing in the world and STILL think it should be legal just because of how ubiquitous and easy it is to produce and use. The war on drugs has been going on for a decade? now and hasn't stamped out ****. Prohibition didn't do anything either.

[DossarLX ODI]

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PEER PRESSURE MANIAS.

I've actually seen people that think smoking weed is "cool" because it's illegal. If it was made legal, these people probably wouldn't care.

[tangomango]

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My mom won't do **** about it and I think that's wrong.

I think your mom should be more concerned with your brother skipping school. If she truly doesn't care about his drug use, so be it. Just don't allow it to affect his grades.

[EnR]

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That's true. Weed being legal has no impact on me, so I really don't care if it's legal or not because people are still going to be dumb enough to do it.

[Vanilla Mnm]

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Parents shouldn't let their kids ruin their lives.

Yeah, I agree with that, definitely. But I think that's a little off topic, lol.

I don't smoke weed because it's illegal, so now you know someone. And I don't really like smoking in general anyways, been around it all my life, I'm sick of it.

So you would smoke weed if it was legal?

[EnR]

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I think your mom should be more concerned with your brother skipping school. If she truly doesn't care about his drug use, so be it. Just don't allow it to affect his grades.

She came up to me and told me that she doesn't care if he drops out of not because she knows he's not going anywhere in life. She told me this straight up.

He's failing every single class he's in right now(he's in 10th grade because he got held back in 1st) and all his classes are the lowest of the low. He hasn't shown up at all to his Auto class and skips math and science all the time.

The worst part about it is his mood swings, he'll snap at everything, just the other day the shower wouldn't get hot enough for him so he decided to smash everything and slam the ground with his foot and punch the walls... while i was trying to sleep for god sakes, this is at 7am. This is when he isn't stoned. When he is stoned it's like talking to a rock, he's useless and just stares. I've witnessed what drugs and alcohol do to people(my dad is an alcoholic) and it's ****ing disgusting and I can't beleive people want to do this to themselves.

[Superfreak04]

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Yeah, I agree with that, definitely. But I think that's a little off topic, lol.



So you would smoke weed if it was legal?

As I said in my earlier post, I don't really like it anyways, so probably not. Once in a while is good though, I will admit that getting high is quite fun, just don't do it so much.

[DossarLX ODI]

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I think your mom should be more concerned with your brother skipping school. If she truly doesn't care about his drug use, so be it. Just don't allow it to affect his grades.

This. For example, if he watches porn but is doing good in school and is a good person, why the hell should your mom care? Apparently it's not the "appropriate" entertainment? (but if he's doing bad, then your mom should care. It's her responsibility to teach your brother not to be irresponsible and obviously she failed at that task then.)

When students use drugs in excess, their grades drop and stress levels rise. This is when it becomes a problem - if your kid is smoking a few times a week, I don't really find a problem in that. Other than shortening his/her lifespan, but that's his/her decision.

[Vanilla Mnm]

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As I said in my earlier post, I don't really like it anyways, so probably not. Once in a while is good though, I will admit that getting high is quite fun, just don't do it so much.

Well, you've obviously smoked weed then, which means you haven't let it being illegal get in the way of you smoking it.

[Emo_Saur_]

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What's funny, I'm friends with many casual smokers. I'm a casual smoker myself, it's much more of a social thing. I have no problem with drugs: MDMA, Marijuana, Shrooms. The others, I do have a problem with. While MDMA and Shrooms can cause you to pretty much die via suicide or pure stupidity weed is not the same way what-so-ever. It's more of an eye opener for me, I honestly have appreciated music high or not since I started.


I think it should be legalized for your own personal growth, but I think selling/transporting it should still be illegal. You'll see rise in gardening supplies and such .

[Superfreak04]

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Well, you've obviously smoked weed then, which means you haven't let it being illegal get in the way of you smoking it.

No, I've smoked K2 which is synthetic weed and it's legal.

[MrRubix]

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Make something legal and easier to obtain (either via distribution channels or through lower price) and more people will use it. This isn't really debatable.

What is debatable: The after-effects. The question is whether or not the increased usage would spiral out of control or if people would be able to manage it responsibly. How much higher would insurance premiums increase? How much tax income would be generated? What would happen to death counts? Which drugs would be used, and how much more?

[Vanilla Mnm]

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Make something legal and easier to obtain (either via distribution channels or through lower price) and more people will use it. This isn't really debatable.

What is debatable: The after-effects. The question is whether or not the increased usage would spiral out of control or if people would be able to manage it responsibly. How much higher would insurance premiums increase? How much tax income would be generated? What would happen to death counts? Which drugs would be used, and how much more?

Well, maybe every drug shouldn't be legalized right away. Maybe only soft drugs like weed, and use that as an experiment to see what happens. I seriously don't think weed should be illegal though, if anything, there should be at most a limit on possession amount. Hard drugs are obviously debatable.. probably not worth the risk.

[Patashu]

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Make something legal and easier to obtain (either via distribution channels or through lower price) and more people will use it. This isn't really debatable.

It sort of is.
For something that is considered a useful consumer good, then making it cheaper/easier to get means more people buy it. i.e. plasma tvs, good food, iphones.
But for something like drugs, part of the appeal is the very fact that it's illegal, and that other people around you are using it illegally. Obviously this isn't the only mechanism, and some people will use drugs solely because it's legal now, but you can't say what the net effect is without studies to back you up.

[aperson]

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yes drugs are bad