Why People Who Hate Drugs Should Want to End the Drug War - Polidicks

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;39322467]Legalising it doesn't mean the drugs will be clean, I mean just look at cigarettes and the kind of shit that companies shove in them. Decriminalisation has also proved to lower drug use in countries that went down that route.[/QUOTE] people don't pay to smoke clean ciggaretes, they're just sure any form of it'll be bad. drug users will pay more money for better drugs because the effects of a good quality versus bad quality is fucking huge from a subjective point of view for drug users. especially if this isn't a black market it can only really go up

Use of "hard drugs" is unsafe and shady because it's illegal. If drug manufacturers had to abide by government enforced quality control standards then the drugs themselves would be far safer and the legal business would pull the rug out from under street dealers and organized crime. It's a pretty simple concept that a lot of people either cant grasp, or they'd just prefer to cut off their nose to spite their face.

[QUOTE=laserguided;39317533]enforce tougher law on hard drugs and loosen law on marijuana.[/QUOTE] we've been doing that for years whats next? execute everyone that gets experimental with X? no, fucking stop that.

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;39317513]I agree with the author's viewpoint, but the article is way too sensationalist. The whole, "think of the children" argument has been done to death.[/QUOTE] Young people are put in jail these days because of it though, and the jail time is indeed more harmful to them than the mild drug use.

This thread stinks from all the people talking out of their ass.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;39321965]You know I can't say "yes" to that question. [B]But what I really think it comes down to is that the people dying from alcohol and cigarettes are old people.[/B] They knew what they were doing, and I find it sad that some people continue.[/QUOTE] lol you really believe that? A fuckton of young people die all the time from alcohol abuse.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;39322467]Legalising it doesn't mean the drugs will be clean, I mean just look at cigarettes and the kind of shit that companies shove in them. Decriminalisation has also proved to lower drug use in countries that went down that route.[/QUOTE] Yes and that is why they should be better regulated than cigarettes are. And even then... a publicly active corporation tends to hold more accountability for it's actions than an underground drug ring. Lower drug use does not necessarily equal success. Not all drug use is negative or problem drug use. Context is needed. How do they count users? If it is by hospital admissions and treatment program participation then sure maybe most of them are problem users.

[QUOTE=laserguided;39317533]enforce tougher law on hard drugs and loosen law on marijuana.[/QUOTE] Except for the part where that won't work and serves only to make harder drugs [i]more lucrative.[/i] Hurp durp how do I logic?

[QUOTE=Stormcharger;39321415]many inexperienced people get in contact with it anyway. If it was legal people would know the dosage and concentration making it less dangerous.[/QUOTE] QFT