This country may not be "ready" but that doesn't mean it's not the right answer. It doesn't matter how dangerous a drug is, when you make that drug illegal you make it more dangerous, not less. Prohibition is also responsible for creating new and more dangerous drugs that wouldn't exist otherwise. For example, crack wouldn't exist if it weren't for the War on Drugs. The WoD made cocaine so expensive that people invented crack as a cheap alternative. Now we have another drug that's even worse than the original. For a while there, head shops were selling synthetic marijuana, which you can overdose and die from, all because the relatively harmless real thing is treated like nuclear radiation. Prohibition doesn't solve problems, it creates them. Regardless of what drug is prohibited.I personally think that this country is not ready to see hard drugs legalized. I don't think we want a world where people can go out and buy something like heroin with ease. Heroin is not like pot. You can't just talk to any idiot you're friends with to get your hands on smack.
Counseling...therapy...but not a rehab program. No detox required for marijuana use and he wont stop without being able to understand why he continues to use if it is screwing up his life. Marijuana cessation programs arent all that effective in my experience.
To American-and no, dont feel compelled to answer...its your family business...
...but...Out of curiosity...how is 'marijuana' screwing up the boys life? is it the marijuana or is it his other life choices? Just curious...not prying. I walked through a glass door when I was a kid stoned out of my mind. I was a regular user but I would be dishonest if I said it was the drugs that were doing it to me.
This country may not be "ready" but that doesn't mean it's not the right answer. It doesn't matter how dangerous a drug is, when you make that drug illegal you make it more dangerous, not less. Prohibition is also responsible for creating new and more dangerous drugs that wouldn't exist otherwise. For example, crack wouldn't exist if it weren't for the War on Drugs. The WoD made cocaine so expensive that people invented crack as a cheap alternative. Now we have another drug that's even worse than the original. For a while there, head shops were selling synthetic marijuana, which you can overdose and die from, all because the relatively harmless real thing is treated like nuclear radiation. Prohibition doesn't solve problems, it creates them. Regardless of what drug is prohibited.
I'm sorry but you still are not going to get me to support legalizing really hard drugs. Let's see what happens when we reschedule Marijuana and let the states come up with their own statutes regarding it. I don't think I want to live in a country where I can go to the gas station and buy smack, the worst drug currently around in my view, if you've ever seen/dealt with a smack addict, and then just shoot it at home, and buy more as needed.
It's never just one thing.
Anyone think this has a chance of passing?
Ron Paul, Barney Frank to jointly offer bill to end war on weed - latimes.com
Congressmen Ron Paul, Barney Frank and others will introduce legislature Thursday that aims to end a major part of the war on drugs -- namely the battle against marijuana.
Reps. Paul (R-Texas) and Frank (D-Mass.), though technically on opposite sides of the aisle, have often spoken out against the war on drugs and will propose a bill "tomorrow ending the federal war on marijuana and letting states legalize, regulate, tax, and control marijuana without federal interference," according to a statement from the Marijuana Policy Project via Reason.
The bill would allow the individual states to decide how they want to deal with pot. Currently the federal government bogarts U.S. law, oftentimes arresting owners and employees of medical marijuana facilities, for example, who thought they were operating legally under city, county and/or state laws.
"The legislation would limit the federal government’s role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state smuggling, allowing people to legally grow, use or sell marijuana in states where it is legal," according to the MPP statement.
Lets just stick to beer bellies like good ol 'mericans???
I know about what Portugal did. I didn't see the article but I am aware that they've decriminalized everything from pot to smack. And I know use went down within teens, but again, it did infact go up in regular adults. I really just do not want smack to be something purchasable on the street. Americans are a lot different from Portuguese.
Actually, deaths, HIV, and prositution related to illegal drug use all declined over a 5 year period.
Right, but was that because of smack being legal? Don't know. Have you ever dealt with a heroin addict before? I mean coke, sure, I'd be ok with legalizing that - because hey, even the feds say it isn't that bad. It's a schedule 2.
I know more about drug addiction than most people. Three of my brothers have been addicted to crack, heroine, and meth, and I can tell you that prohibition didn't help them at all. It took their drug problem and artificially turned it into a criminal problem. Ideally, nobody would ever use drugs. It seems like you believe prohibition is doing something to achieve that goal, but it's not.if you've ever seen/dealt with a smack addict
Do you think the logic that applies to marijuana doesn't apply to heroin and other "hard" drugs? Prohibition creates a black market, it doesn't matter what substance is being prohibited. And criminals will happily step up and fill the void created by prohibition, and they will use violence to defend their business.
I bet she has a great personality.
She's pretty cute all on her ownGood...want to be my wingman? cuz her girlfriend is freqin HOT...
I know about what Portugal did. I didn't see the article but I am aware that they've decriminalized everything from pot to smack. And I know use went down within teens, but again, it did infact go up in regular adults. I really just do not want smack to be something purchasable on the street. Americans are a lot different from Portuguese.
Is legalizing guns really that important. They're obviously not hard to get!
It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars jailing people for using a substance less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.
im not sure where you're from but guns are legal, at least they are here................and can you please provide your source that proves pot is less harmful than booze or cigarettes
im not sure where you're from but guns are legal, at least they are here................and can you please provide your source that proves pot is less harmful than booze or cigarettes
Wow, I didn't realize there were still people out there who don't realize this. Just, WOW.and can you please provide your source that proves pot is less harmful than booze or cigarettes
This is long overdue. Making Marijuana illegal was based on lies and racism going back to the era of William Randolph Hearst who went to war against Hemp because he owned paper mills and timber. He also claimed that Mexicans went on a killing spree while high on pot. It never happened but the facts didn't count.
In 1937 we got the BS for all this time and the wacko movie Reefer Madeness which I was shown in High School in the 60s and thought it was a comedy and didn't know anything about Pot at the time.
I have since learned the facts, and it is why I think that lying about Pot has brought a lot of young people into addictions with really dangerous drugs because people think, they lied about Pot did they lie about Cocaine, and other drugs too.
We have lied about sex too, and I think kids find out about the lies and all hell breaks loose,
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