Legalise ALL drugs?

[Milton Bradley]

Quote by: Rave7pt0 I'm generally in the legalize it all camp, but I do have a thought. What do you people think about predatory sales tactics? What if you can hook a kid on something very addictive and very deadly? Isn't that a risk out of proportion to the freedom it offers?

Education is the best form of defense.


If people would tell their children the truth, then the children would have the knowledge to deal with the situation when it arises. Of course, some will make the wrong choice, but that already happens with drugs illegal.



America, and freedom in general is about personal responsibility. If you are not ready to battle lifes problems with truth, (unlike the government funded propoganda) than you are doing yourself, and your countrymen a great disservice by inviting government into all of our lives.


That, if I am not mistaken, is what we revolted against in the first place.

[jose]

Quote by: Milton Bradley Education is the best form of defense. If people would tell their children the truth, then the children would have the knowledge to deal with the situation when it arises. Of course, some will make the wrong choice, but that already happens with drugs illegal. America, and freedom in general is about personal responsibility. If you are not ready to battle lifes problems with truth, (unlike the government funded propoganda) than you are doing yourself, and your countrymen a great disservice by inviting government into all of our lives. That, if I am not mistaken, is what we revolted against in the first place.

would you call caffien an addictive drug its sold to kids via coca-cola and pepsi it doesent kill people unless its cut with things like aspartame

[Milton Bradley]

Quote by: jose would you call caffien an addictive drug its sold to kids via coca-cola and pepsi it doesent kill people unless its cut with things like aspartame

Yes, I believe cafffien is an addictive substance. It is not hard to get a fatal dosage of caffien either. It can be done with regular, over the counter drugs, and coffee, or soft drinks.


I also understand that grapefruit juice can significantly lower your tolerance to caffien, making the affects even more pronounced.

[Osborn F Enready]

What's Wrong With the Drug War?
Everyone has a stake in ending the "war on drugs." Whether you’re a parent concerned about protecting children from drug-related harm, a social justice advocate worried about racially disproportionate incarceration rates, an environmentalist seeking to protect the Amazon rainforest or a fiscally conservative taxpayer you have a stake in ending the drug war. U.S. federal, state and local governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to make America “drug-free.” Yet heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other illicit drugs are cheaper, purer and easier to get than ever before. Nearly half a million people are behind bars on drug charges - more than all of western Europe (with a bigger population) incarcerates for all offenses. The war on drugs has become a war on families, a war on public health and a war on our constitutional rights.

Many of the problems the drug war purports to resolve are in fact caused by the drug war itself. So-called “drug-related” crime is a direct result of drug prohibition's distortion of immutable laws of supply and demand. Public health problems like HIV and Hepatitis C are all exacerbated by zero tolerance laws that restrict access to clean needles. The drug war is not the promoter of family values that some would have us believe. Children of inmates are at risk of educational failure, joblessness, addiction and delinquency. Drug abuse is bad, but the drug war is worse.

Quoted from:
http://www.drugpolicy.org/drugwar/