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What good is the war on drugs?
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Shouldn't some narcotics be legalised?
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Personally im for legalising all drugs.
The war on drugs simply does not work. Why send Royal Navy cruisers to Latin America to catch drug smugglers when the supply still reaches Britain?
Narcotics should be legalised.
the drugs are moving around the world in ships and submarines. trucks and areo planes. areo? by set trading routes. there are billions involved. meaning men who own palaces and armies.
hotels and diners in america. mortgage companies. night clubs. holiday resorts, are doing very well. it's only ilegal when they get caught.who and how....do you, or would be able to stop...or even want to stop such vast somes of money moving about? it obviously suits somebody.
the us have just sent troops in to colubia and said were having your oil. presumably the cocaine as well to fund the wars.
and thuse you highlight the contradiction.
Smoking kills, as does alcohol. Yet both are perfectly legal.
At the end of the day I am an adult who fully understands the dangers associated with drugs. I do not recognise any government's authority in the world that tries to stop me from what I please with my own body. If I want to drink 15 pints of beer a day or drive nails through my toes it's nobody's business. And if I want to take a few pills at the weekend or smoke a few joints at home is certainly nobody's business.
Why?
In the interest of freedom, narcotics should be legalised.
Cannabis and some other soft drugs tough could be legalised without serious consequences as these drugs are no more harmful tham alcohol or tobbacco. Legalising hard drugs though is madness.
before you make statements like this, which is based on nothing but your personal belief, check out the facts about the drugs and they're places in history and culture over the years.
what happened when heroin was legal in the united kingdom? all of europe? what happened in america when they handed the manufacture and distribution of alcohol to criminals?
"the drug war". any other war that had been fought so hard and achieved exactly the opposite of what it hoped to achieve, would long ago have been deemed to have been lost, or to be simply a fools war.
Parting from that basis the government should simply decriminalise drugs and sell them under strict conditions. No one is saying you should buy cocaine from a dispensing machine in the pub. There should be licensed shops for over 18s where drugs can be bought. And it'd be a good idea if for the really dangerous substances, such as heroin or crack, the drug is only sold to those with a medical prescription certifying them as addicts.
The benefits of legalasing drugs are just enormous. For starters it will dramatically reduce if not completely eradicate all drug related crime, which accounts for at least 75% of all street crime. How nice would it be to get rid of 3 out of 4 crimes overnight???
The government would make an absolute killing on tax revenue. The many billions raised each year could be used on health, on drug education and inner-city regeneration, further reducing the impact of drugs on the community.
And last but not least is the very fundamental issue of personal freedom. I do not recognise any person, agency or country's authority that tells me what I can or cannot do with my own body. That perfectly honest and law abiding citizens are being sent to jail because they choose to take a few pills at weekends or enjoy their charlie or joint in their free time is an absolute disgrace. Even more so when you consider that the government is not only allowing but actively encouraging the consumption of the most socially damaging and evil drug of all: alcohol.
I don't fancy going to jail, but I want even less to have my life dictated by a totally clueless and misguided Establishment. I have and will continue taking any drugs I fancy as a personal choice and fundamental right. If I get caught and sent to jail for it, so be it.
Criminalising druigs is 'madness'. People should be free to do with their body as they choose. If that means taking drugs then so be it.
But drug taking doesn't have to harm others. That's the limit to anybody's freedom.