Should certain illegal drugs be made legal to buy for recreational purposes?

[FlyingJesus]

Well lets take alchohol, its legal, and will, if we think about it, will take a heck of alot of it to die directly from alcohol. With drugs it can be as easy as 1 pill to kill youself. Also, a large majority of people who take drugs are homeless

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You have no clue about the pharmaceutrical aspects of this discussion, about the effects of various drugs (even the legal ones) or about society as a whole apparently. The hugely massive minority of drug users are homeless, and your comment about 1 pill being able to kill you shows that you're lumping all drugs into one category and still somehow believing that alcohol "doesn't count". As for that, here's a handy chart of how dangerous various drugs are:



it's from 2006 so it may not be entirely up to date with certain street purity changes and a couple of classifications have changed, but chemicals themselves don't suddenly change their effects on the human brain and body so you can take it as being almost totally accurate still I'm sure. The fact that you base alcohol being safe on it being legal is just laughable

[Moh]

Canabis should be legal. There aren't many risks, people can't really get dependant on it. Look at Amsterdam for example, they don't have any problems.

The government would make millions/billions from taxing it haha

[Stephen]

alcohol is just a bad poison that people like until they get poisoned too much.

Most drugs, you don't need to go ott like alcohol which is one of the reasons why I think alcohol is obviously one of the worst drugs

[Conservative,]

Legalise Cannabis & Ecstacy, i don't care for the others but it is laughable that Tobacco & Alcohol are legal when they do more damage than them. :\

[Stephen]

Legalise Cannabis & Ecstacy, i don't care for the others but it is laughable that Tobacco & Alcohol are legal when they do more damage than them. :\

That was what I was trying to get at, I just didn't put it in those words

I agree, with you. For example: I take aspirin for my heart condition, but when I was first prescribed it, they refused to give it to me because it's rare for teenagers to take it and they thought I was gunna top myself.

Tbh - I think, as I;ve said before, if it is regulated, and there is some kind of fraud-proof system - some kind of card or something, it should be fine. Obviously don't legalise every drug under the sun, but maybe some Class C drugs, and ones that CAN BE beneficial (eg; marijuana).

Also, some drugs could be made legal via prescription only - like in New Jersey, I believe, they legalised Marijuana by prescription. There is more than just one way of "legalising" a drug, it doesn't necessarily have to be over the counter available ;]

edit: I see you might be talking about the graph tom posted but still

You say maybe some class c drugs and ones that can be beneficial should be legalised and then say ecstasy should be legal :S Ecstasy is a class a drug and isn't beneficial....... also you said..

I personally am against taking drugs, but I think legalising then will:

Stop drug/gang culture
Stabilise additctions
Make the government plenty in tax
And drug dealers will lose their jobs.

You say you don't care about the others but said this. Surely if you thought this was true then you'd care about the others because cannabis and ecstasy won't stop gangs, addictions etc :S

[Conservative,]

edit: I see you might be talking about the graph tom posted but still

You say maybe some class c drugs and ones that can be beneficial should be legalised and then say ecstasy should be legal :S Ecstasy is a class a drug and isn't beneficial....... also you said..



You say you don't care about the others but said this. Surely if you thought this was true then you'd care about the others because cannabis and ecstasy won't stop gangs, addictions etc :S

I don't care about the ones that are unhealthy. Ecstasy, as referring to the graph, is clearly not that bad, I have no idea why it is Class A and I'd legalise it along with Marijuana.

And no, nothing will ever stop addictions & gangs, but it will lower them. I just think legalising drugs like heroin & cocaine is madness, but legalising drugs with proven benefits (eg; Marijuana) or less of a hazard (ecstasy) will be good.

obviously it should be in moderation with some kind of system to limit the amount per week/month/year but I don't see a problem with legalising the less dangerous ones.

[karter]

A certain ID should be made that allows you to buy drugs only if you work in pharmacies and medical fields , there should be a strict check on the trades of these drugs and its sale should be limited too.

And no, nothing will ever stop addictions & gangs, but it will lower them. I just think legalising drugs like heroin & cocaine is madness, but legalising drugs with proven benefits (eg; Marijuana) or less of a hazard (ecstasy) will be good.

obviously it should be in moderation with some kind of system to limit the amount per week/month/year but I don't see a problem with legalising the less dangerous ones.

First of all Marijuana is the most traded drug in the world , if it is legalized , South american and Afghani drugs trade will flourish once again .

make it legal.

if people choose to take drugs & get addicted, fine, their choice and their problem.

Ok first of all , drugs are illegal because people get addicted and then become ill , for a nation those people are a resource and the drugs are the things which are degrading those precious resources
If drugs are made legal , Imagine every youngster getting addicted , wast rackets flourishing..

[-:Undertaker:-]

As Nigel Farage has said; establish a Royal Commission to look seriously into the possibility of legalising all drugs/most drugs as it costs the government £50bn-£70bn a year to continue the war on drugs which only ends up 'solving' less than 1% of drug dealing/taking. The war on drugs is failing.

Drugs can be dangerous, nobody disputes that. Just as nobody disputes that alcohol can be dangerous. But so is driving, eating fatty foods and so forth. If people want to take drugs then let them do so, by allowing drugs to be sold as alcohol/cigarettes are sold then you remove the monopoly the drug dealers have on the drug industry - in reply to the government tax idea, i'm against extra stealth taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, fuel and would be the same on this issue - tax should ideally (and we could do this, meaning a smaller state) be the same across the board on all items.

The prohibition of alcohol was a complete failure, as such is the war on drugs.

[kuzkasate]

A certain ID should be made that allows you to buy drugs only if you work in pharmacies and medical fields , there should be a strict check on the trades of these drugs and its sale should be limited too.





First of all Marijuana is the most traded drug in the world , if it is legalized , South american and Afghani drugs trade will flourish once again .




Ok first of all , drugs are illegal because people get addicted and then become ill , for a nation those people are a resource and the drugs are the things which are degrading those precious resources
If drugs are made legal , Imagine every youngster getting addicted , wast rackets flourishing..

then thats there own problem. if they want to be so stupid and take drugs and die, let them, their problems. the government wastes way too much money on all this ****.

[Stephen]

As Nigel Farage has said; establish a Royal Commission to look seriously into the possibility of legalising all drugs/most drugs as it costs the government £50bn-£70bn a year to continue the war on drugs which only ends up 'solving' less than 1% of drug dealing/taking. The war on drugs is failing.

Drugs can be dangerous, nobody disputes that. Just as nobody disputes that alcohol can be dangerous. But so is driving, eating fatty foods and so forth. If people want to take drugs then let them do so, by allowing drugs to be sold as alcohol/cigarettes are sold then you remove the monopoly the drug dealers have on the drug industry - in reply to the government tax idea, i'm against extra stealth taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, fuel and would be the same on this issue - tax should ideally (and we could do this, meaning a smaller state) be the same across the board on all items.

The prohibition of alcohol was a complete failure, as such is the war on drugs.

I don't mind drugs and all but with the current law people have seen drugs as a bad thing.. Would you really want all drugs to be accepted like alcohol and tobacco? Hey I'm 18 I can finally drink take ecstasy, cocaine and lsd!

I think that legalisation of drugs would be a good thing yeah but only in your own home.. Have friends round and take drugs, don't bring it into the public view and no harm will be caused. You may feel the happiest person on earth taking ecstasy but you'd still be happy if you accidently killed someone under it's influence.