Should drugs be made legal? - [Closes 14/05/07]

I think marijuana should be legalized everywhere.

1 - Marijuana isn't as unhealthy as tobacco, and yet tobacco is legal everywhere. There's no PROOF that marijuana causes cancer. I'm not saying it's completely healthy for you but the good outweighs the bad. Marijuana can actually improve you if it's not overused and done in moderation. It makes you more creative and see the world from a different perspective. It also relieves physical (and emotional for some) pain, which is why medical marijuana is legal in about 12 states in the U.S.

2 - Alcohol is a lot worse than marijuana. Alcohol causes way more accidents than pot does, and alcohol makes you a much more reckless driver than pot does. Marijuana typically slows you down, meaning most who made the poor choice of operating a vehicle after taking it would probably just drive really slow, and possibly run a stop sign or a red light. They'd be less likely to swurve off the road into the ditch, or into the wrong lane and hit another car. Also, when people drink too much alcohol they get really sick, or they can even die from alcohol poisoning. The only way you could die from marijuana is if you did something really dangerous, or smoked hundreds or thousands of pounds, which is almost impossible to get ahold of unless you're growing a gigantic field of it. Even then, most people probably wouldn't be able to smoke that much before they fell asleep or something. If you smoke too much marijuana however, you either fall asleep or you can actually become sober.

3 - Governments could make a lot of money off of marijuana. I don't understand a lot of that stuff but if they did legalize it they could make a ton of money from selling it legally. They would also be able to focus on the REAL criminals such as murderers, rapists, bank robbers, etc. instead of overcrowding jails with people who had some pot on them.

4 - Marijuana isn't a gateway drug, regardless of what you've heard. Yeah some people move onto harder drugs but a large majority of the people who do smoke pot just stick with that. It also isn't addictive, meaning you don't get physical symptoms from not having it. You may want it really really bad and go entirely out of your way to get it, but it's nowhere near as bad as meth, heroin, crack, cocaine, prescription pills, etc.

All in all, nothing really bad could come out of legalizing marijuana. Some people would switch from cigarettes and/or alcohol to pot, thus decreasing a lot of unwanted deaths.

As a side note, I don't think other drugs should be legal.

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Originally Posted by chineseartist

im smoking a ****** right now

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sure you are :rolleyes:

If drugs are legalised it means government can tax them so they could make money from it

I will never smoke drugs, however I think some of the more minor Class C drugs should be legalised; and if people decide to abuse them then that's their problem.
I certainly don't think any Class B or A drugs should be made legal, they are far too dangerous.

Naw way, Drugs are illegal for a reason, why would they go around schools telling teenagers not to take drugs and making them aware of what drugs do if they are going to make it legal? Don't see it happening if they have spent all that money telling people not to.

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Originally Posted by MrLore

sure you are :rolleyes:

If drugs are legalised it means government can tax them so they could make money from it

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dont go off topic -rep i think it shud so i can get weed everyday and smoke for every hour of the day it would be heaven

YER THEN I CAN SIT IN THE STREET WID MA BONG.

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Well the thing is, drugs are sold behind the police and government's back so they don't make any money out of it unlike smoking cigarettes.

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Originally Posted by Crono

I think marijuana should be legalized everywhere.

1 - Marijuana isn't as unhealthy as tobacco, and yet tobacco is legal everywhere. There's no PROOF that marijuana causes cancer. I'm not saying it's completely healthy for you but the good outweighs the bad. Marijuana can actually improve you if it's not overused and done in moderation. It makes you more creative and see the world from a different perspective. It also relieves physical (and emotional for some) pain, which is why medical marijuana is legal in about 12 states in the U.S.

2 - Alcohol is a lot worse than marijuana. Alcohol causes way more accidents than pot does, and alcohol makes you a much more reckless driver than pot does. Marijuana typically slows you down, meaning most who made the poor choice of operating a vehicle after taking it would probably just drive really slow, and possibly run a stop sign or a red light. They'd be less likely to swurve off the road into the ditch, or into the wrong lane and hit another car. Also, when people drink too much alcohol they get really sick, or they can even die from alcohol poisoning. The only way you could die from marijuana is if you did something really dangerous, or smoked hundreds or thousands of pounds, which is almost impossible to get ahold of unless you're growing a gigantic field of it. Even then, most people probably wouldn't be able to smoke that much before they fell asleep or something. If you smoke too much marijuana however, you either fall asleep or you can actually become sober.

3 - Governments could make a lot of money off of marijuana. I don't understand a lot of that stuff but if they did legalize it they could make a ton of money from selling it legally. They would also be able to focus on the REAL criminals such as murderers, rapists, bank robbers, etc. instead of overcrowding jails with people who had some pot on them.

All in all, nothing really bad could come out of legalizing marijuana. Some people would switch from cigarettes and/or alcohol to pot, thus decreasing a lot of unwanted deaths.

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Meanwhile those drivers would become paranoid about trivial things such as cars on the other side of the road hitting them, and would therefore swerve into the nearest building on the left. From what I've heard cannabis makes you more disorientated and "high" than tobacco and is more of a depressant, which slows down reactions, which contrary to what you say ISNT a good thing while driving. Instead of the car bring driven more slowly, the likelihood is that the car will be driven at the same speed and the driver will crash due to delayed reactions.

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Originally Posted by Professor-Alex

Meanwhile those drivers would become paranoid about trivial things such as cars on the other side of the road hitting them, and would therefore swerve into the nearest building on the left. From what I've heard cannabis makes you more disorientated and "high" than tobacco and is more of a depressant, which slows down reactions, which contrary to what you say ISNT a good thing while driving. Instead of the car bring driven more slowly, the likelihood is that the car will be driven at the same speed and the driver will crash due to delayed reactions.

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I'm not saying it's a GOOD thing, but it's a lot better than swerving all over the road because you're drunk. The people who are dumb enough to drive drunk are the same people who would drive high. Driving high ISN'T a good idea, but it's not as dangerous as driving drunk. People who use their brains know it's bad to drive while intoxicated.

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Originally Posted by chineseartist

dont go off topic -rep i think it shud so i can get weed everyday and smoke for every hour of the day it would be heaven

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How was I going off topic, also you have 0 rep power.

The thing about legalising drugs is we would need to conside the extra costs of drug related deaths and injuries, as this is a free healthcare state it could be very costly unless they were heavily taxxed. That is why cigarettes are so heavily taxed, the cost near nothing to make but it costs the NHS loads of money every year in hospital bills. This idea would be much more suited to somewhere where you have to pay for healthcare like America.