Question by guitarman: Why make any drugs illegal for adults? Can it be proven that drug laws make our society any better?
Why not just let adults put what they want in their bodies? Why should the government or any authority figure have a say in this? Why do adult citizens even allow the government to control their lives like this? Why the need for the nanny state type laws? Why not just legalize it all and let the free market run its course? Why all of the intervention by government? Why not let the market decide if drugs are a good thing or not?
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Answer by katmandu_85219
Study China’s problems with drugs before you decide if it is a good thing or a bad thing.
We are not stronger or morally superior to the Chinese.
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#1 by laughter_every_day on August 13, 2010 - 4:15 am
Can it be proven that the laws prohibiting murder make out society better? Even though it is against the law, people keep doing it. Maybe we should repeal the prohibitions against murder.
#2 by cDaMan on August 13, 2010 - 4:36 am
a lot of people answering are criticizing you, but that’s because they only see a portion of the story, what you are saying actually makes perfect sense, having drugs illegal creates profits for criminal gangs, if its legal it can be like cigarettes or alcohol, instead of something ran by mobsters, it could also be taxed. millions of dollars would be saved from not prosecuting people and putting them in jail, and millions would be generated in taxes, money could then be spent on those who truly need it, not stoners smoke weed, i mean people addicted to heroin.
And you say that people allow the government to do this? not entirely, especially where i live in Canada. there are millions against prohibition, even cops because they see the problems prohibition has created. There are millions who smoke weed in public together on 4-20 across the world (4/20 is April 20th). or GMM (global marijuana march) it is on may 1st. these people are sick and tiered of being pushed around and are standing up for their rights, you see this mainly in Canada, particularly Vancouver, in the US, asides from California, most people are to conservative to want drugs legal. You dont hear about these events very often on the news because the media doesn’t want you to know how many people favor legalization, of at least some drugs…
the internet also has a huge legalization movement, go on any youtube of a clip form the news debating legalization of pot. the vast majority of comments are saying that it should be legal. the internet is very liberal, because on the internet people aren’t shut down like they are on tv.
if you ask me what i would do as a leader of a country, i would decriminalize all drugs, and then legalize some, such as pot, shrooms, acid, mescaline. others could be debated, for psychedelic drugs potency would have to be regulated so people don’t accidentally get to high. i would keep drugs like heroin and meth illegal because they are so bad for you, and aren’t any spectacular highs, they just ruins peoples life. but i wouldn’t send people to jail for those drugs, just have them decriminalized. only if they became very popular then i could legalize them so that gangs aren’t selling them.
i recommend you watch 2 movie,s one is the union: business behind getting high it tells you the truth about marijuana and the truth about how and why it is illegal.
i also would recommend the movie grass, it is a 1999 movie narrated by woody harrelson. it shows you how pot was made illegal and how the government did it, also why. and how at some point it was coming towards legalization, but people stepped down on that. Also, pot was the first drug to be made illegal, and it is the least harmful, only after pot did other drugs become illegal, pot was first because it threatened corporations in the limber and cotton industries.