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no not really, think about it...everyone smoking and drinking...and leaving illegal drugs alone, pah, it wouldn't work.
if it gives a good buzz make it illegal then, why?
illegal drug=good buzz.
Yes, but the highest buzz comes at the highest risk. Refer to my original post. Do you see?
Yet if heroin addicts could get what they need on prescription, they wouldn't need to commit crimes to fund their habit.
ok ...lets keep things as they are ...ilegal. what good has that done for the last 30yrs or more? we are getting an ever growing problem ...so what do you propose ...keep on doing things the way we have ...making the problem never ending? doing nothing at all but saying ... its ilegal ? any sane person can see that the problem is escalating ...so what do you propose? lets leave it all as it is ...ilegal and mushrooming out of control ...beause society doesn't have any control over it. by legalizing ...we take control. by leaving things the way they are ...you expect things to change for the better?
and ...addiction to something ilegal is completely different to addiction to something legal.
look up the medical facts regarding addiction to opites and the effects on the mind and body ...no long term harmful effects.
but so what if there are harmfull effects ...wouldn't you rather the authorities have control of those effects as opposed to gangsters and terrorists having control?
Cannabis and the softer drugs such as MDMA, LSD etc, should be brought into legal outlets, where users would be informed about what they were getting.
Addictive drugs such as heroin, cocaine, crack and others would be widely available from doctors on script. In this way their addiction could be managed and treated.
I agree Mr Roll and if they sell certain drugs in say... licensed stores they can bring in more taxes to improve the NHS. One thing I don't get is why is alcohol legal and not marijuana?
However, at the same time people should be educated better on what the effects of these drugs can be. I mean if somebody pops pills then they're doing it because they want to and they know the risk. It's their own body, they should have the right to do what they want to it and if they end up ill then it's their own doing.
Then again, I wouldn't be so sure about heroine and cocaine... I mean smoke a spliff and all... but there might be more traffic accidents.
i don't profess to know what the best ways of legalizing would actualy be,how things would be implemented etc.
i also see a major problem with prescribing crack. crack heads are seriously out of control people. you'd have to prescribe it a lot to each individual and then turn out into the street a mad man.
it would be a bit like prescribing whiskey for an alcoholic. come round to the clinic, get absolutely slaughtered and then fall all the way home shouting abuse at people till tomorrows script ...maybe vouchers that were exchangable in the pub?
maybe having crack dens ...socialy unacebtable i know ...maybe it would actualy put people off such degradation.
legalisation is a minefield.
I can honestly say that cocaine saved my life... A few years ago on the last day of a holiday in Madrid I stayed all night up with friends at various bars. Although we didn't drink lots it is safe to say we were over the limit. My friend then gave me a lift from the bars straight to the airport at 7 am, and as it happens we had just done a nice line of charlie each. As we came to the top of a small hill on the motorway we suddenly saw that a car was reversing (!) on the fast lane of the motorway (!!!) and coming towards us, scarcely 40 yards away. My friend had no more than 1 second to react, and I am certain that if we hadn't had that line of charlie we would have collided head on with the idiot at 70 mph. As it happened we managed to dodge her by about 4 inches and went on to crash against the central reservation, although by then we had managed to reduce speed.
Even if my friend hadn't had a single drink I doubt his reaction time would have been as sharp after being up all night if we hadn't had that charlie.
Since then my admiration for Colombian marching powder has doubled (if that was possible).
*sigh*
if drugs are kept illegal there is going to be more and more and more debt because of people having to turn to crime to pay for their drugs, if the government made drugs legal then charge less than the street dealers do, problem solved and clean drugs from the government, not any mixed and dirty shit.
I'd say that centers where they could be treated with whatever meds could help in the short term would be best, then help when they leave.