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

[The Professor]

Correct, it is a depressant and it's not wise to drive while under the influence of alcohol or marijuana. But, alcohol is legal and yet it has the same, if not a worse effect, as marijuana. Yeah there'd probably be some deaths related to it, but nowhere near as many as alcohol causes. Surely there'd be a law in place restricting driving while under the influence of marijuana as there is with alcohol. It's actually a lot easier to drive high than it is to drive drunk as far as I know. I've been in a car with both drunk (not incredibly drunk, but still drunk) and high drivers. I can tell the difference. Drunk drivers are a lot more reckless and it's harder for them to drive straight, whereas the high drivers I've been with drive the same as when they're sober.

Agreed with the first sentence.

I think alcohol is legal where cannabis isnt because it takes a lot more alcohol to have a real psychological effect on you, whereas a comparitively small amount of cannabis and youre off on Mars somewhere.

There isnt a law against driving while on cannabis because cannabis is illegal anyway, so not driving while on it goes without saying. You'd still be prosecuted for dangerous driving anywho

[Crono]

Agreed with the first sentence.

I think alcohol is legal where cannabis isnt because it takes a lot more alcohol to have a real psychological effect on you, whereas a comparitively small amount of cannabis and youre off on Mars somewhere.

There isnt a law against driving while on cannabis because cannabis is illegal anyway, so not driving while on it goes without saying. You'd still be prosecuted for dangerous driving anywho

Have you tried weed? It doesn't send you off to Mars or mess you up a lot. Yeah it alters your mind but it doesn't take you to another world. You're still there, just thinking differently and as someone said just recently, makes you put more thought into things. It is illegal to drive under the influence of cannabis. Just because it's not legal most places doesn't mean there isn't a law against driving while on it. It's illegal to have it on you and have it in your car, and obviously driving while on it. The fact that it takes a lot less marijuana to get an affect out of it means people wouldn't overdo it as much as they drink too much alcohol, which is really dangerous.

[Zephonim]

Agreed with the first sentence.

I think alcohol is legal where cannabis isnt because it takes a lot more alcohol to have a real psychological effect on you, whereas a comparitively small amount of cannabis and youre off on Mars somewhere.

There isnt a law against driving while on cannabis because cannabis is illegal anyway, so not driving while on it goes without saying. You'd still be prosecuted for dangerous driving anywho

The problem with this argument Alex is, that although you only need a small amount of Cannabis to be affected, there is a certain threshold where, if you smoke any more, you really aren't going to get any more of an affect, where as, if you drink and drink and drink, you are going down.

After smoking you have ALOT more control over your body then when you are drunk.

[The Professor]

Have you tried weed? It doesn't send you off to Mars or mess you up a lot. Yeah it alters your mind but it doesn't take you to another world. You're still there, just thinking differently and as someone said just recently, makes you put more thought into things. It is illegal to drive under the influence of cannabis. Just because it's not legal most places doesn't mean there isn't a law against driving while on it. It's illegal to have it on you and have it in your car. The fact that it takes a lot less marijuana to get an affect out of it means people wouldn't overdo it as much as they drink too much alcohol, which is really dangerous.

No, and I dont intend to. I was just trying to find a psudonym for "getting high" because it sounds too informal And im too tired to read the rest and make sense out of it, so Ill stop there +rep for being able to argue properly

The problem with this argument Alex is, that although you only need a small amount of Cannabis to be affected, there is a certain threshold where, if you smoke any more, you really aren't going to get any more of an affect, where as, if you drink and drink and drink, you are going down.

After smoking you have ALOT more control over your body then when you are drunk.

Ooh steve wants a dig at me now
That threshold also exists with alcohol. Its called being so out of your skull that youre unconcious

[Ashhizzle]

Yeah, drugs should be made legal along with gun crime and murder.

LIRL!

Drugs ftw :eusa_danc

[Zephonim]

No, and I dont intend to. I was just trying to find a psudonym for "getting high" because it sounds too informal And im too tired to read the rest and make sense out of it, so Ill stop there +rep for being able to argue properly



Ooh steve wants a dig at me now
That threshold also exists with alcohol. Its called being so out of your skull that youre unconcious

Aye,

My argument still maintains, it is extremely rare to blackout from cannabis

[Ashhizzle]

everybody loves a toke of mary j, so they shouodl be limited imo

[Camy]

I think, the ones you inject shud stay illegal, and some of the tablets, but I see no problem in legallizing a medicinal drug, such as marijuana, if ppl want to get high y stop them its their choice
Btw the only thing i wud ever touch if i had to wud be weed

[Black_Apalachi]

Should drugs be made legal? In the Netherlands most (if not all) drugs are made legal. Far fewer people there take drugs than people in the UK due to it being illegal there (and nearly all places in the world).

Enjoy debating .

So more people take drugs here purely because they are illegal? :S

[Grace.]

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.

Right sorry but many of your points are invalid -.-

1- You say marijuana isn't as unhealthy of tobacco but it can contain tobacco and it is addictive in the form that if a smoker is upset they will continue you take it to blot out the "pain". There is different types of addiction.

2 -Again an invalid point. Yea it is dangerous and yea so is alcohol but it has different effects on different people. If a person already has a slight mental problem that has gone undected for year if they are on marijuana and havent had some for a while then their temper can just "explode". Also yes alcohol itself can kill you but so can marijuana but in a different context, if the user is very depressed it can infact cause the user to kill themselves - whatever that way may be whether it is bringing other people with them. Oh and another point, it doesn't slow you down as in being slow it slows your reactions. The car would be a normal speed, the reactions wouldnt

3 - You'll find you dont get jailed for having pot on you but you get a warning, if you get caught a second time you would most likely get a suspended sentence. They do this to stop the dealers as the dealers don't just deal marijuana. Oh and so what if the government can make money? They seem to get enough off us any way.

4 - Marijuana is a gateway drug. Many people use it for years and get used to the "buzz" thus moving onto "heavier" stuff. Also like i've said marijuana does normally contain nicotine which is addictive - making marijuana addictive.

5 - Nothing good would come out of legalising it either. Its illegal for a reason. I know many police and they say the worst thing the government ever did was downgrade pot.