Should drugs be legalised?

[Guest Kether]

QUOTE (Ginge @ May 28 2004, 00:50)

A few good points there Kether...I'd just LOVE to see what LiquidEyes says to all that.

He'll probably agree with me fully.

[Lisa]

QUOTE (Kether @ May 28 2004, 00:16)

I don't think most people have really considered the ramifications of legalisation fully. Arguing whether natural compounds should be legal over synthetic is ridiculous and completely missing the point of the thread (IMHO). There are fare more important societal reasons why drugs should be legalised. 1) Drug dealers would be put out of business over night. Producing most pharmaceutical drugs is cheap, it's the black market which raises the price. Good for the consumers and good for people who want to see organised drug gangs out of action. 2) Considering that a large proportion of crimes are comitted by a small amount of people trying to fund drug habits then allowing, say heroin addicts, their fix would stop them comitting crime and allow them to take heroin that they know is pure would remove them from the cycle of crime (if they were given their H on prescription) and would allow them to live a normal life. Studies show that people can live a normal life on heroin. It's trying to find the money, and the inpurities in street deals that cause them more damage. 3) Awareness would increase to levels similar to those that we have for alcohol and cigarettes. If people really want to do drugs, you can't stop them. You may aswell give them the best, at the correct doses and make sure that people have the knowledge to do them in the safest way. 4) It would allow police to redirect their resources to more pressing matters than busting kids for enjoying a few pills at the weekend. 5) We don't need to be nannied by the state, if I want to put something into my body I will. The laws don't stop me doing that already. In fact they're almost unenforcable. Laws that are unenforcable make a mockery of those laws: ie, what are they there for? We resent the fact that what we do at the weekend is illegal when we're not harming anybody when people can get pissed freely and get into fights etc. It's interesting to note that if tobacco and alcohol were discovered today they would both be instantly made class A. They're socially acceptable, drugs (on the whole) aren't and I don't see that changing any time soon.

great points Kether

[russelldust]

well put Kether- I think you'll find that is exactly what I have been saying all along...

[LiquidEyes]

QUOTE (Ginge @ May 28 2004, 00:50)

A few good points there Kether...I'd just LOVE to see what LiquidEyes says to all that.

I totally agree with what Kether said.

 

Ginge - often enough I disagree with Kether, but at least he backs up all his comments with facts/reasoning.

 

I still think you're completely missing the point when you go on about "natural" drugs being more acceptable than synthetic drugs. You still haven't given a satisfactory explanation for why this should be so.

[Lisa]

probably cos tescos, asda & such like drum it in to you that natural is good

[Guest Kether]

QUOTE (russelldust @ May 28 2004, 07:22)

well put Kether- I think you'll find that is exactly what I have been saying all along...

Must have missed that bit, but I was only skim reading.

[Scream]

QUOTE (Lisa @ May 27 2004, 15:50)

well there you go, everything is harmfull if abused or over used, but used correctly & dose correctly in moderation, things can be safe & beneficial bring on the chems!!

which was my original point!! NOW I CAN TAKE MY BOW!!

[Guest Kether]

QUOTE (Scream @ May 28 2004, 12:55)

QUOTE (Lisa @ May 27 2004, 15:50) well there you go, everything is harmfull if abused or over used, but used correctly & dose correctly in moderation, things can be safe & beneficial   bring on the chems!! which was my original point!! NOW I CAN TAKE MY BOW!! Feel free, Robin Hood.

[Scream]

QUOTE (Kether @ May 28 2004, 13:18)

QUOTE (Scream @ May 28 2004, 12:55) QUOTE (Lisa @ May 27 2004, 15:50) well there you go, everything is harmfull if abused or over used, but used correctly & dose correctly in moderation, things can be safe & beneficial   bring on the chems!! which was my original point!! NOW I CAN TAKE MY BOW!! Feel free, Robin Hood. will you be one of my merry men

[Alex]

"should drugs be legalised?"

 

No. Monday's to Wednesday's are bad enough as they are.

[Louise]

 

agree with you on that one