i can totally understand how drugs should have been illigalized, they were pushed on the popultion before people knew the side effects, because people thought there was no negative, everyone did it, addiction was an epidemic, so prohabition was a must to stop it. but now people know the bad effects, why arent drugs legal now, aslong as we know the side effects, we should be aloud to do whatever we want with our bodies, inculing putting drugs in them.
i was thinking mainly of opiates and cocaine, which where the first drugs made illigal, the other followed
If drugs were straight-up legal then our society wouldn't know how to handle it, it'd be a crazy world, the US doesn't like change it seems.
not only would the society not know how to handle it but i think the main reason is the government would have no way to tax it to make it beneficial to them. think of it this way its illegal now and just about everyone on here can find what they want, if its legal there will only be more to be able to be purchased. since all this is coming in illegally the government wouldnt be able to have an import tax on it and since its not sold in stored no sales tax either.
the only reason people wouldnt be able to handle it is because it is such a taboo subject today. a lot of kids do drugs to feel rebellious. if they were legal and just a regular part of everyday life, it would be like eating a cheeseburger from mcdonalds. not as bad for you, either. the percentage of kids who have tried pot is much higher in the US than in holland, when it is legal. people dont see it as a big deal because its just another product in a store.
different drugs were made ilegal for different reasons. For example the cotten industry had a big part in the outlawing of pot. Why? Well hemp is a very good material for clothing, better then cotten maybe. But the economy of the south during the 1930's was still based alot on cotton. So the competition was elimianted. As far as Psychedelics, well they show you that maybe this 9-5, 2.5 kids, buy all this stuff and you will be happy American attitude is not the way. Good little worker bees don't ask questions, they just do as they are told.
Ill take a crazy fucked up world as long as we are free to make personal decisions. It's our natural right as human beings whose home is the earth to do with our bodies what we wish, as long as this does not effect others.
I would have dismissed this as paranoia some time ago. But now, the more I think about it, the more I agree that the powers that be fear the mind expanding properties of certain drugs.
the government is the only institution that can make drugs legal again, and they have nothing to gain from that, only a lot to loose. and what, in teh name of human rights? Unfortunately humans on the whole do not consider that the right to take drugs is an ethical code to uphold.
Well yeah. If it was legal then everyone would be doing it and there would be no such thing as "stoner pride" and the people who think they're better because they open their mind with LSD. Drugs make people different, and i think we like to know that we're a lil different from everyone else.
What you ppl so stubborn refuse to deal with and to incorporate into your brains is that he whosoever maketh legal these lethal drugs also has to deal with the consequences. Have you looked around you and seen the devastation already being caused by some of these drugs being sold illegally in the community. Have you paid attention to what happens when some of these drugs are offered to persons too young to know what's good for them (physically). And I know that we all think we know that we can do what we want with our bodies but when our bodies have been used up and we haven't been able to kill ourselves properly, the medical community is left to salvage what's left. And you all think they should legalize these drugs. Think again. The system's working well. springfling
actually according to the documentary "American Drug War: The Last White Hope", the drugs that are legal in Amsterdam are used much less per capita in this region compared to how they are used in the U.S. (where they are illegal). many people aren't as attracted to illegal substances after they've been legalized
I think the war on drugs is doing its part in brainwashing the American public. Alcohol is a drug and it's legal. I dont think you can say anything bad about a drug that you couldn't say about alcohol. In many ways alcohol is worse then a lot of the illegal drugs out there. It's all about responsible use. Wasnt there some govt. sponsored list from the UK that listed drugs and their rank in dangerousness (for lack of a better word), and it was something like ecstasy, weed, alcohol, meth (less -> more harmful)? And I'm sure we've all done that "legalize marijuana" paper in highschool so I wont get into what happend during the prohibition era.
