Drug Legalization

Muhammed said:

That "study" is obviously bunk.

Not based on science.

Even the idiots at your link were too ****ing embarrassed to publish the methodology.

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PoS said:

lolwhut? Its based on a paper published by the Lancet, one of the leading medical research think tanks in the world.

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Muhammed said:

:lamo I don't give a **** how many links you can find to the same flawed garbage.

It's still nothing but junk science. Anyone who is not an idiot can clearly see that.

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PoS said:

So its flawed science because... you say so? :doh

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Luftwaffe said:

Nah, I just want to tax the hell out of pot, I would never EVER want to legalize cocaine (it says legalize all drugs for an option which is dumb as **** in my opinion) or any other more dangerous substance, pot is sufficient enough. Let's give it a 30% tax on its total price. something insane so that we can profit like thieves

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Muhammed said:

:lol:

Seems like any mention of super high tax rates is always enough to get all the left-wingers' collective panties wet.

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Crovax said:

Still regurgitating the same old myths. Prohibition did work it was repealed because people wanted to drink. The only thing drug legalization is about is wanting to do drugs, nothing more.

Actually, Prohibition Was a Success - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/the-not-so-roaring-20s.html?_r=0

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PoS said:

So here's what the drug war has cost us so far:

- Largest prison population in the world.

- Estimates that the Drug War has cost taxpayers from $1 Trillion so far (or around $100 Billion a year) and this is a conservative estimate.

- Cops have been militarized: every city and government agency (including the Dept of Education) now has a SWAT team equipped with military weapons and vehicles.

- Lots of innocent people have been killed (form drug gang shootouts to cops mistaking raiding the wrong house)

- Arrests and incarceration of large number of minorities (the black population has been absolutely devastated by arrests and busts)

- Strengthened organized crime (drug cartels control huge swaths of territory in Latin America) and caused massacres/high murder rates in other countries.

It only took 13 years for the older generation of politicians to repeal Prohibition when they realized that it wasnt working. Why are a huge number of politicians now still for the war even though its not working?

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