Main > Everything Else
YAY! TODAY SUCKED!!!
shmokes:
I think that marijuana should be legalized and that harder drugs should be decriminalized -- treated as a public health epidemic.
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: shmokes on November 13, 2004, 12:40:31 am ---I think that marijuana should be legalized and that harder drugs should be decriminalized -- treated as a public health epidemic.
--- End quote ---
I'd be more along the lines of thinking death penalty for possession, with same day executions. There would be no drug problem after about 10 days, in the long term many, many, many lives would be saved. Heck, even in the short term more lives would be saved. How many days of watching drug users being lined up against the wall and shot would it take for the entire drug problem to vanish and the distribution chains to fall apart? I say about 4 days.
Marijuana may not be particularly dangerous physically, but it is still a terrible social problem. I know plenty of people who have ruined, or who are ruining their lives with pot, and without ever getting tangled up with the law.
shmokes:
Gimme a break.
Religion, particularly the Christian religion, has taken exponentially more lives than drugs. How many lives have been ruined by things like, say, genocide? If we apply your self-righteous philosophy across the board maybe it should be possession of bibles that gets you shot. Or would that put you up agains the wall?
BTW, I think marijuana should be legalized and other drugs decriminalized because that would reduce our drug problem, not because I do drugs. I don't (except alcohol -- which, btw, I think is WAY more harmful/dangerous than marijuana).
Apollo:
Ditto, if religion and alcohol were banned ( or had never existed ) imagine what an amazing world we would be living in. Just think about it for a while.
grueinthebox:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on November 13, 2004, 12:54:59 am ---Marijuana may not be particularly dangerous physically, but it is still a terrible social problem. I know plenty of people who have ruined, or who are ruining their lives with pot, and without ever getting tangled up with the law.
--- End quote ---
The same argument could be made for alcohol, and possibly any number of other things. Regulation and personal responsibility are key. Likely these same people who are ruining their lives with pot would be doing the same with something else (be it alcohol or just some other variety of self-destructive behavior) if the pot wasn't around... In those cases, it's generally a symptom rather than the problem itself.