Time To Reform Drug Laws?

[jackoroe]

Isn't that what I basically said a few posts up that went ignored? I see how it is jackoroe. I'm gonna cock block you tonight!

Sorry. I'm with the Department of Redundancy Department, I can't help myself.

 

[maxpowr9]

Sorry. I'm with the Department of Redundancy Department, I can't help myself.

Still, I am gonna have to deny you cock tonight as there are none available. We do have an abundant supply of pussy if you so desire.

 

[thevofl]

A lot of people believe if you legalize drugs it means you're approving them. That's not true. If something like marijuana were legalized, it would be controlled and strictly regulated by the government, not the drug dealers. Does the drug cartel really want marijuana, cocaine and others legalized and controlled by the government? That would take it out of their hands and they're lose money.

CowboyBob,

You and I agree on something.

I see legalizing the softer drugs would severely put a crimp in the drug trade.

 

[Beanstalk]

Alcohol has been responsible for many very serious problems -- it ruins lives and it ruins health. However, when it was Prohibited, even greater problems ensued, and the drinking didn't even stop! It was finally recognized as a very bad way to deal with the problem.

On the other hand, look at what happens when drugs are decriminalized: nothing! Do you know that in Holland, where drugs are freely available, it is mostly the tourists who go there to use them; the Dutch largely leave them alone.

There is really only one way to deal with the "problems' of drug abuse: education. It is working (slowly but surely) with tobacco; if anyone has any serious problem with marijuana, please publish your findings! Marijuana provides relief for a number of medical problems, yet in the USA they will throw you in jail for using it. The pharmaceutical companies want to be sure that you use their drugs, which will kill you if used regularly, but not marijuana, which they cannot profit from.

It really stinks.

 

[jackoroe]

Still, I am gonna have to deny you cock tonight as there are none available. We do have an abundant supply of pussy if you so desire.

Not like I haven't done that before.

 

[Kulindahr]

Wow -- nothing in that report is news to me; it's stuff I've been aware of for twenty years. Maybe the world is finally waking up?

Biggest argument for just legalizing the whole shebang: over 4/5 of violent crime in the U.S. is caused by the "War on Drugs".

Second biggest: save tens of billions of dollars per year that we don't have anyway.

Soundest reason for just legalizing it all: you own yourself; what you put in your property is your affair.


How to start: pass a law that if you grow it yourself, or have gotten it from a U.S. legal resident who grew it him or herself, it's legal, regardless of any other laws.


for further reading: Just Say Yes, by Jacob Sullum, which uses the government's own data to reveal the lies they've been telling us.

 

[BostonPirate]

IO just want something to smoke TONIGHT... lol.

Massachusetts decriminalizes marijuana possesion and made it a misdemeanor up to over half an ounce I think?

Now the state gets cash payments in tickets for possesion insetad of bogging the courts down and wasting all that money in court costs.

If memory serves me correctly, I believe most of the township law enforcement agencies ran commercials in support of the change.

 

[landers]

Make drug use a civil offense punished by massive fines and force rehab on repeat offenders, like drunk drivers.

Fire drug traffickers/producers out of a canon into the sun.

 

[Kulindahr]

Make drug use a civil offense punished by massive fines and force rehab on repeat offenders, like drunk drivers.

Fire drug traffickers/producers out of a canon into the sun.

Why not make farting a civil offense punishable by massive fines? maybe we should make comfortable shoes a civil offense, too. While we're at it, make people who laugh in public do community service, and people who play music in public both fines and community service.

Oh -- can't forget fat people. They should all be fined $50 per pound over their ideal weight and put in heavy exercise programs until they burn it off.

 

[landers]

Why not make farting a civil offense punishable by massive fines? maybe we should make comfortable shoes a civil offense, too. While we're at it, make people who laugh in public do community service, and people who play music in public both fines and community service.

Oh -- can't forget fat people. They should all be fined $50 per pound over their ideal weight and put in heavy exercise programs until they burn it off.

Farting, laughing, comfortable shoes and playing music does not add to healthcare expenditures and lost productivity. Although I believe one can be fined for busking on TTC property without a permit.

I'd commission a study to determine the impact of fat people on public infrastructure before fining them. Of course one could probably power America by getting fat people to walk on treadmills, so maybe you should pay them.

 

[Kulindahr]

Farting, laughing, comfortable shoes and playing music does not add to healthcare expenditures and lost productivity. Although I believe one can be fined for busking on TTC property without a permit.

I'd commission a study to determine the impact of fat people on public infrastructure before fining them. Of course one could probably power America by getting fat people to walk on treadmills, so maybe you should pay them.

The point is that the main reason behind anti-chemical-recreation laws is that people find it objectionable -- just like the things I listed.

Read Saying Yes -- it uses the government's own figures to show that lost productivity and health care claims are vastly overblown.

More fundamentally, those are issues between workers and their employers, none of the government's business.