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[–] Fuckery 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
If it can get you high hell yes. Other pharmaceuticals like anti-biotics, mitotic inhibitors, alendronate, etc., maybe. Don't need people arbitrarily popping powerful drugs and making super bugs or destroying their livers because of something they read on wikipedia. On the other hand, the Darwin awards would get a whole slew of new nominees.
[–] armday2day 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Make all drugs legal but also let anyone carry any weapon they want. If I see SeƱor Bath Salts streaking down Peachtree Avenue and he decides to eat my face I want to know that I can bust out my double action hand canons and educate this synthetic zombie on the virtues of goddamn freedom. You fry you die mothafucka!
[–] FormerDiggUser [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Correct, if we take all of the money associated with trying to fight the War on Drugs and spend it on education and rehab I think we'd be much better off.
[–] spud29 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Exactly and I pulled this from an article
In 2001, Portugal became the first country in the world to end the drug war within its borders, and in the short time since, the country has seen a radical improvement in their society. In regards to drugs, they actually now have less of a negative impact on society in Portugal than they did prior to the end of prohibition. There are now fewer drug-related deaths, fewer children getting ahold of drugs, and fewer people doing drugs in general.
There are also many other factors that people many times overlook, including the fact that infectious diseases spread through needles and dirty drug practices have declined rapidly in Portugal since the end of drug prohibition. The police state is also not nearly as much of a problem for residents as it once was. Many prisons have even shut down because there is not enough crime.
GASP! Who would've thought decriminalizing drugs leads to less people doing them and less people in prison?!
[–] SecretCow 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I'm pro drug legalization. It's your life. You do what you want with it. That's not to say there shouldn't be disclaimers on them saying that they can mess your day up (like on cigarettes). There should be similar laws for it though, like driving while intoxicated. It's the same thing, just a different substance.
[–] VillaLopez 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
In the name of FREEDOM... pretty much a no brainer.
[–] lordnahte2 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yes for some specific reasons. There was a study done by the Department of Health (I believe) in the 1910s before the Marijuana Tax Act, in the 1970s before the Controlled Substances Act, and in 2011 or 2013 I can't remember which. Those studies all found that 3% of our nation is addicted to a nonalchohol drug. We need to stop treating it as a criminal problem which hasn't helped addiction rates and treat it as a health problem. Norway hasn't had a heroin overdose in years and the reason is the government provides it. They get clean needles and regulated doses to ensure they don't overdose. Regulating doses prevents overdoses and also regulating would prevent cutting with other substances. People would have better access to legitamite rehab programs instead of the revolving door ones we have now and we would take a vast majority of the nonviolent people out of jail for an addiction or risk taking personality. Also, we have had a rise in dangerous things like spice trying to provide a legal alternative to weed which is the least deadly of all.