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Post by Beady’s Here Now on May 16, 2009 2:53:12 GMT -5
I'm NOT asking if you think drugs should be legalized or whatever, but rather do you THINK it will be in our life time (60 at most....).
Personally, I think yes drugs will be both legalized and regulated if not in 10 years then in 20 years or 30 years etc but surely in 60 years they will def. be (maybe not Heroine or Cocaine but surely Marijuana, and Ecstasy, etc)
We're already seeing the government as well as citizens speak out. Just search for "Legal drugs" on youtube alone and you get some quite good videos. Do the same on Google and you get some damn good articles.
Ron Paul has spoken many times in the past, dating back to the 1980s, about decriminalizing drugs. And even this Obama admin is close to ending the idotic and failed war on drugs policy.
I know it will be a liberal president who will eventually reverse it, and I'm ok with that. There's SO many reasons why drugs should be legal AND regulated -- takes it out of criminal hands and thus prevents the desperate violenece we constantly see, makes it safer bc substances can't be laced with anything, educate people, set an age limit.
Furthermore, if alcohol was founded today, it would be classified as a Class A drug based on today's ruling. ALMOST every "illegal" drug argument can be counted perfectly with citing the example of alcohol - lose inhibitions and willing to think, addiction, indirect death - kidney problems, direct death - alcohol poisioing.....in fact there's more people dying right this second of alcohol than of anyother fucking drug, legal or illegal.
In fact, if you watched "Ecstasy Raising" on Youtube (ABC, Peter Jennings) you should be angry why Ecstasy was made illegal - based on false science....coupled with the recent BBC Horizon episode "Is Alcohol worse than Ecstasy" which ranked Ecstasy as #18 and alcohol around #9 as the most dangerous drugs. Fuck the government and it's misinformation....They're doing more harm than good, and by relying false sceintific studies simply for the sake of saying "no" to drugs hurts them even more as they lose credibility, so when they say something true, no one will believe them. I-D-I-O-T-S.
And we learned in the 1920s that prohibition of alcohol doesn't work, so why would it work for other drugs? And facts prove it hasn't, and it's actually made society more dangerous.
And even furthermore, as long as you don't hurt anyone or damage anything, who the fuck has the right to say you can't get high? That it's immoral to do so? Fuck that shit. An adult has every fucking right to do whatever he/she wants to his body as long as it doesn't hurt anyone/thing.
So not only do I think drugs should be legalized and regulated I truly believe society is taking an overall turn to this belief and within 60 years (I predict 20, actually) we'll see drugs become regulated.
This idiotic failed and tax-payer-propaganda fueled "War on Drugs" nonsense needs to end.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2009 4:15:40 GMT -5
doubt it, the best we will get in the uk is the dutch model dicrimilisation but still illegal, i think there is some kind of european legislation that makes it hard to legalise it.
in the uk the government would be to worried about being perceived as weak on crime at this moment in time to even go as far as that at the moment even though i don't think it would be hard to get public support for marijuana to be legalised if there was a fair and open public debate.
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Post by Protector of reality on May 16, 2009 8:15:17 GMT -5
doubt it, the best we will get in the uk is the dutch model dicrimilisation but still illegal, i think there is some kind of european legislation that makes it hard to legalise it. in the uk the government would be to worried about being perceived as weak on crime at this moment in time to even go as far as that at the moment even though i don't think it would be hard to get public support for marijuana to be legalised if there was a fair and open public debate. Wouldnt work, different culture, different social mentality, too many fuckin' idiots.
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Post by NYR on May 16, 2009 8:52:46 GMT -5
doubtful. the 60s were nearly 50 years ago, and if they couldn't do it, i doubt we can.
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Post by His Royal Majesty Revolver on May 16, 2009 15:04:12 GMT -5
Decriminalisation for sure..... achieved here in Canada briefly about 5 years ago..... No way is it ever going to be legalised. Ever
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