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Permalink Reply by Kelin420 on January 21, 2011 at 4:57am

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Why would the law make you feel different? Other than the the paranoia of having you door kicked in, or the loss of a job, loss of education grants, the threat of JAIL- and all that-

I  have never had or understood  the so called paranoia from cannabis- it's the best plant on earth - serves thousands of uses, every one beneficial to mankind -

 

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Permalink Reply by Casey Caldwell on January 21, 2011 at 2:13am

yes!it hasn't done any body but the goverment any good making them illegal.look @ history,drugs used to be legal and no one ever had that be of a problem.ya people got addicted but they weren't out killing and stilling for 'em.plus just look @ the money that could be made and saved.  

You can ether be free or drug free,but you can't be both!

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Permalink Reply by Jarrod Payne on January 21, 2011 at 3:52am

I know in South Africa one of my main complaints is that our violent crime rate is massive and yet so much resource is spent on curbing drug usage. In fact helicopters are used to burn the weed plantations in the hills of Lesotho and KZN. This seems silly to me since not only is it a waste of police resources but often it is the only income the people there have. It should be legal and taxed because many poorer nations could make a fortune legally supplying good quality regulated substances.

 

We do have an interesting situation here at the moment though where some people have been crushing up anti-retroviral HIV meds, mixing them with amphetamines and getting wasted. Its called Wunga and is at least partially legal but has been implicated in a string of execution style family murders in rural KZN.

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Permalink Reply by Wassabi on January 21, 2011 at 6:54am

i've seen plenty of heroin addicts in my short life, who became no more than a shadow of a human being- animals who would do anything  -ANYTHING - for another dose.

 

i've also seen people's brains turn to mush, their memory completely erased because of marijuana. i personally stopped smoking pot because i realized my memory was beginning to get damadged. people don't realize the price they're paying in exchange for a good time, and wake up when it's already too late. 

 

HOWEVER, when presented with the question of legality, i think what most people actually think of is- "should there be no more drugs in the world?" we outlaw things in the hope they will cease to exist.

 

if that were true, i would be in favor. but that's not the case. outlawing something has nothing to do with extrerminating it from existance. actually- in most cases it makes it worse. turning a blind eye to things we don't like only makes them grow,and fall under the management of criminals.

 

drugs should be legal.

 

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Permalink Reply by James Smith on January 21, 2011 at 7:07am

For years I have advocated not only should all drugs be legal, they should be free. If the government was the sole supplier, dealers and their power to corrupt the legal system and destroy lives would be ended.

People have objected saying "We would have kids doing drugs! We would have people driving while on drugs. People would die of overdoses."

All of those things are happening now. There are plenty of laws concerning driving under the influence. Has that stopped anyone? Not many.

Part of the attraction of drugs is that they are illegal and it's a way for the younger generation to thumb their noses at the older. If they were free and provided by the "establishment" that attraction wouldn't be as great.

They billions currently spending spending on enforcement and incarceration could be used for education and treatment. I predict that, the first year, a lot of drugs would be given away. The second year, not so many. after five years, like many government programs, they would be scrambling to find clients to prevent the program from being cut back or canceled.

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Permalink Reply by T A A on January 25, 2011 at 7:51am

Keep the government out of drug distribution! Have you seen the movie Equilibrium? Describes my thoughts exactly. We already have enough brainwashing going on without approving of government induced stupor! My stupor should be of my own volition only :)

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Permalink Reply by Michael Grimm on January 21, 2011 at 6:42pm

To take the profits away from the drug dealers, you have to keep the prices low so that the users here can afford them.  Otherwise, the blackmarket versions of the drugs will continue to sell.  You have to make the price so low that the blackmarket can't beat it.

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Permalink Reply by T A A on January 25, 2011 at 7:55am

Huge taxes would increase illegal sales. That has been a conundrum with North American cigarettes for decades. Tobacco companies conveniently "lose" entire shipments of cigarettes, which then end up on native reserves being sold tax-free for a quarter of the 'approved' market value.

 

Taxes also never discouraged poor people from smoking cigarettes. In fact as awareness and taxes were going up, it's the educated and financially well-to-do who reduced their smoking, not the poor.

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Permalink Reply by Craig Nomazlab on January 21, 2011 at 10:12am

Although I don't do them, I think they probably should. Being illegal, it's the cause of most gang violence, and people can easily get their hands on them anyways. Where I live, you can walk up to a random person, and ask if you can have some weed and there's about a 50% chance they will give you some, or tell you where you can find some.

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Permalink Reply by justin gold on January 21, 2011 at 10:34am

Speaking from experience drugs can really destroy peoples lives so before everyone agrees with legalizing them think about then some of the people who have just tried drugs once and died as a consequence,also friends I've had in school I can hardly talk to anymore as their heads are that far gone they would giggle at everything you say(brain dead from years of smoking weed) ,their brains are not coming back perhaps they'd be better off dead,This argument is not black and white by no means.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Grimm on January 21, 2011 at 6:44pm

Other than to your respiratory system, smoking pot does almost nothing harmful, and nothing permanent to your body or mind.  Even the damage to the repiratory system is debateable, and vaporizers eliminate most of that anyway.

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Permalink Reply by T A A on January 25, 2011 at 7:57am

My lungs have never been capable of smoking 'smoke'. I can't wait to get my hands on a vaporiser. I can just imagine the beauty of getting high without peeing myself from coughing/choking!

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