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My idea to cut down drug problems

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Attic said:
Interesting proposition. You should interview the families of those who have had loved ones with drug addiction issues.
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Yea, some of them might be happy to hear that they wouldn't have gone bankrupt, or had family members locked up for non-violent, victimless crimes, and been able to get the treatment they needed with out the social stigma that presently accompanies drug abuse. Wait, that's probably not what you meant.
 
Attic said:
Interesting proposition. You should interview the families of those who have had loved ones with drug addiction issues.
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I bet they would feel much better had they known their loved ones were safe and sound in a nice prison somewhere on the taxpayers dime for years so that they could overcome their addiction. Oh wait, drugs are as easy to get in prison as they are on the streets? Damn, well at least they would know where they were at I guess...

You just made the point that people are going to do drugs regardless if they are legal or not. My idea is to stop sending them to Criminal University for non-violent offenses such as drug use. Instead we can regulate it and tax the shit out of it, end the drug war related violence as you put the drug dealers out of business (or did you buy your last bottle of jack from a bootlegger?), save a fuckload of money, stop fucking with productive members of society who like to get high "socially" because the police get to take and keep their stuff, provide actual treatment to people who want to get better, AND not only save money but make some as well.

I like my idea better.
 
I think we should sell them at stores like all the other drugs we sell (caffeine, alcohol, nicotine) ... locally (or at least legally) grown/manufactured....

Drug abuse is a public health issue and not a crime issue IMO.
 
BurnItDwn said:
I think we should sell them at stores like all the other drugs we sell (caffeine, alcohol, nicotine) ... locally (or at least legally) grown/manufactured....

Drug abuse is a public health issue and not a crime issue IMO.
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You are correct sir. Legalize, regulate, and profit.

Cigarettes and alcohol are often times harder to obtain by teenagers because drug dealers don't ask them for ID when selling them whatever other drugs they feel like buying.
 
Attic said:
Interesting proposition. You should interview the families of those who have had loved ones with drug addiction issues.
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I'm sure that alot of them would be pleased at the idea, then their loved ones wouldn't have to deal with drug dealers, or worry that their coke might be mixed with something deadly... and they would get the help they need.
 
neckarb said:
I'm sure that alot of them would be pleased at the idea, then their loved ones wouldn't have to deal with drug dealers, or worry that their coke might be mixed with something deadly... and they would get the help they need.
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I agree with this and what others have alluded to in terms of a broken prision system as it relates to those with drug addiction problems.

I think what has been said ignores possible problems that could result from legalizing all forms of drugs.

Fixing the prision system and/or social stigma of drug addictions != legalizing drugs.
 
xj0hnx said:
Yea, some of them might be happy to hear that they wouldn't have gone bankrupt, or had family members locked up for non-violent, victimless crimes, and been able to get the treatment they needed with out the social stigma that presently accompanies drug abuse. Wait, that's probably not what you meant.
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Good points, you come across like a douchebag though. Sounds like a problem you won't be able to seek treatment for though.
 
Attic said:
I agree with this and what others have alluded to in terms of a broken prision system as it relates to those with drug addiction problems.

I think what has been said ignores possible problems that could result from legalizing all forms of drugs.

Fixing the prision system and/or social stigma of drug addictions != legalizing drugs.
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That's definitely true, while I think that my system would work, I don't think it would work without other reforms of the current UK government as well, but it's a start, removing demand would remove the need for suppliers.
 
piasabird said:
Drugs are just the way to pain and misery.
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Actually, irresponsibility is.. not drugs.

Drugs are one of *many* ways we can demonstrate irresponsibility. You can be irresponsible with food, irresponsible with your work or with your education, an irresponsible parent, an irresponsible driver... and those are just for starters.

Eating food, having a job, getting an education, being a parent, and driving are all legal. Why are drugs any different from these other things? All of them have the potential to be damaging to not just ourselves but others.
 
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piasabird said:
Drugs are just the way to pain and misery.
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my caffeine in the morning doesn't give me pain and misery.
It's true that if I don't have any caffeine for a day, that I have some pain/misery due to withdrawl, but, people who self medicate are not always down the path of pain and misery. Often they are just going down the path of exploration or experimentation.
 
Attic said:
Good points, you come across like a douchebag though. Sounds like a problem you won't be able to seek treatment for though.
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I know they are, and I couldn't careless about "coming off as a douchebag" to someone on the internet.
 
piasabird said:
Drugs are just the way to pain and misery.
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As previously mentioned, caffeine doesn't do a whole lot to bring on "pain and misery". Most of the "pain and misery" from illegal drugs can be planted squarely on our inept system of dealing with them.
 
The illegality of certain drugs is an issue of what is and is not culturally acceptable. From any rational and logical line of thinking there is no good reason to ban drug use, so the only way to explain it is to look at it through the lens of cultural norms.
 
piasabird said:
Drugs are just the way to pain and misery.
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The hell they are.


I still firmly believe all drugs should be legal and purchasable by anyone, no prescription needed. Let people make their own mistakes and pay the consequences for it by living a shit life or killing themselves, but in the grand scheme of things, not much will change except we'll completely remove any sort of black or gray market on drugs which means little to no drug related violence and crime. Anyone who breaks the law under the influence, I don't care of what, could be caffeine, faces a harsher sentence.
 
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