Hornburger
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I've only done one hallucinagen, and it's suprisingly still legal, and I tripped BALLS, but I had control over my actions, it's just the world was a completely different place. I started pouring sweat, so I stipped down to my boxers and ran out on the porch for about 10 minutes, then went back in and smoked some more, and then the TV became real, like, there were really these people in my TV living out their lives within the box.
galenrox said:Well that's the logic of most people who don't do drugs. I highly doubt there are a bunch of people out there thinking "I'd really like to do coke, but it's illegal!" Getting drugs and concealing them are ridiculously easy that I could have an 8 ball sitting on my computer desk in 20 minutes doing nothing but going to open the door, and no one would know, so it being illegal isn't a big detriment.
You've gotta think about it this way, we're supposed to be a free society, yet we're not allowed to do things that affect no one but ourselves. And making any drug illegal is just ridiculous, all of them, cause the illegality doesn't prevent destructive behavior, it worsens it because the drugs aren't regulated and thus more likely to cause overdoses or to be laced with something else. So yes, hard drugs really are a detriment to society, but while they're illegal they not only have their normal detriment, but then they also carry the detriments of police corruption, street violence, and plus all of the addicts are frickin broke, thus causing more crime and violence.
And I could almost guarantee that I have cocaine in my system right now, and I despise cocaine, I have no interest in doing it, but because I love pot, and pot is not regulated because it is illegal, I've probably recently smoked some laced with coke. And it's just frickin ridiculous that I can't smoke a dried plant in the privacy of my own home in a country that claims to be the land of the free, it's just frickin ridiculous.
galenrox said:Dude, you're missing the point, this would make getting drugs harder for kids. What do you think's harder for a 14 year old, booze or coke? It's coke, if they know someone who knows someone they can get coke no problem, booze would be harder, because someone who knows someone isn't driving some 14 year olds to get some booze for $10, but he would for a $30 profit for selling an eight ball.
I used to buy pot in school, I bought speed from a security guard. I never once bought booze in school.
And an assumption that you're making is that kids would be more likely to try heroin if it's legal. That's ridiculous, and I heavily doubt that even legally they'd sell heroin and coke in Jewel Oscos, heroin isn't gonna be any different legal or illegal, it's still heroin and we still know what it is. It takes a certain type of person to do heroin, and they're gonna do it regardless of the law.
Not sure why, but that last line made me :lamogalenrox said:Well weed would probably be like beer, like some gas stations would carry it, you could get it at Hyvee or Osco or wherever. Coke would be more like liquor, some grocery stores would have it, liquor stores would have it, probably the same with drugs like meth, acid, shrooms, etc. Heroin would be like everclear, you can find it, but you have to work some, you know?
galenrox said:lol, as long as you're living you're never too old for that!
The reasons politicians don't act this logically is because they're either too stupid or they're too political.
Connecticutter said:I agree that drugs must be legalized. It has caused so many social problems, that I don't even want to try to list them.
To take a different angle, consider this case: If someone decides that they want to be shooting up heroin, should taxpayers have to fund their medical expenses and possible recovery cost? Personally, I think that if we are going to insist of having some government medicare program, then the people should be expected to meet us half way and not do anything that's going to drive up the cost.
Connecticutter said:I wonder if Canada has to deal with these types of questions, with their more lax drug policy, and more government-oriented health-care system.
ngdawg said:Below is the DEA budget since 1972. We all know how well it's been working, right?:roll:
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/agency/staffing.htm
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Kandahar said:I think a better solution would be to simply legalize the drugs, and NOT have the government medicare program (at least for preventable problems such as this).
As it stands now though, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but alcoholism and its responding disease and the ill effects from tobacco can be covered under medicare/medicaid.Kandahar said:I think a better solution would be to simply legalize the drugs, and NOT have the government medicare program (at least for preventable problems such as this).
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