Legalize weed, it will drop by half. But all drugs legal? I don't agree with that happening
Why? The only reason I can think of disagreeing is what people would do while they're on the drugs. Like I said though, cartels would be gone and that would eliminate a huge portion of the crime.
yeah... And im not saying to not punish people for actions that harm others... Like if someone wants to smoke crack and then carjack some truck and go on a high speed chase ramming into people- That fool goes to prison for driving under the influence and thefts and whatnot. But they dont go to jail for smoking crack.
Basically I have no problems with people wanting to sit down in their basement and shoot up drugs. The only people they are hurting is themselves.
So you legalize, and educate. Make drugs as socially unacceptable as we have done with smoking. Right now, drugs are socially acceptable because it's "dangerous" and "wrong" and "your a bad ass breaking the law if you do it". Legalize it and mount a campaign like those posters showing people before and after meth.
All drugs should be legalized, and enforced like alcohol is. ie... age limits, rules against driving under the influence, etc.
"The study found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.
"Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success," says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. "It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does."
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In summary. Portugal has the most liberal drug laws in the world. Once they legalized all drugs, drug use, disease, decreased. drug treatment more than doubled. So yeah... Lots of fact to back up my opinion.
And they will find something else illegal to make money and take control of people in a different way
Perhaps. My opinion is they wouldn't. that their whole business would fall apart. Destroy their cash flow, and then go round up the cartel when their money source disappears. See how well they do at convincing people to murder when there is no money to be made from it.
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reading comprehension Dayna, look into it. I said "all drugs should be legalized and enforced like alcohol... ie... age limits "rules AGAINST driving under the influence".
You're right, I left off that they are also potentially hurting their family/children, mostly because that is their choice in life. If both parents want to abuse drugs and neglect their children, that's why we have agencies like CPS. If one of the parent wants to use drugs then the other parent has the right to get themselves and their children out of a potentially harmful situation.
Life is about choices. I don't think the law stops anyone from making bad choices... it really just glorifies the act in my hunble opinion.
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html
"The study found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.
"Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success," says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. "It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does."
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/drug-war-facts-090109
You're right, I left off that they are also potentially hurting their family/children, mostly because that is their choice in life. If both parents want to abuse drugs and neglect their children, that's why we have agencies like CPS. If one of the parent wants to use drugs then the other parent has the right to get themselves and their children out of a potentially harmful situation.
Life is about choices. I don't think the law stops anyone from making bad choices... it really just glorifies the act in my hunble opinion.