I'm a firm believer in that people want what they can't have. If drugs were legalized, I don't think we'd have as big of a problem with addiction and overdoses since drugs would no longer be viewed as mysterious and forbidden. It's the same thing as the laws that prevent the US from selling alcohol to people under 21. The countries that do not have as stringet of an anti-alcohol policy as the US do not have nearly the same problems with alcoholism as we do.

Alcohol is just as bad if not worse for you than some of the illegal drugs out there....

The real question is: would I get more spam about the ganja or about viagra?

-Rudey

Both. One to get you up and the other to mellow you out.

Can you imagine the TV commercials?

Yes. Instead of Bob Dole, it will be Clinton.

-Rudey

Nope. They'll look for someone who inhales.

(W?)

This is conjecture - I don't think any of this is true.

Find a study, or stop passing things like "OBVIOUSLY" as fact, when that point isn't obvious in the slightest.

And "King Pins" aren't being targeted? What about FBI actions in Colombia? Dead DEA agents in Miami might disagree as well . . .

Listen it's puff, puff, pass. He inhaled.

-Rudey

You're wrong. Politicians never lie.

Yeah and that's not my baby.

-Rudey

Preach!

1) The majority of people incarcerated right now are non-violent drug offenders.
2) legalizing it will a) save tax payer dollars housing a grown man who made the mistake of smoking/buying/ dealing a little weed b) create revenue through taxation and c) partially eliminate a great imbalance in our justice system where poor people (usually your minorities-but not always) get harsher penalties for the same "crime" as their more affluent counterparts. So in essence, it evens things out on that level.
3) part of the revenue raised/ saved can be used for rehabilitation programs or preventative programs that are far more effective in keeping people productive than incarceration.
4) free up MUCH NEEDED law enforcement for important things like oh...I don't know...rape crisis, child abuse, murder, homeland security.....

I am not a drunk and drinking is legal. I am not addicted to porn, gambling or anything else because it is legal. Smoking has been illegal for teens for years now and that hasn't stopped them from doing it all, yet we do not jail our youth for doing it.

Making things legal takes away the glamour, takes away the criminal element and viaolence (when was the last time a man shot another man for simply selling a similar item in the store next door??), introduces the legitimate business and regulates product, condition and safety/health standards that were once not there before.

Saying it will obviously be more is a matter of an opinion and not based at all on fact.

Anyway, our criminal justice system fails because if doesn't target street dealers and "king pins" as much as it does everyday average users. We have a serious problem with our criminal justice system when we decide to send drug users to prison instead of sending them to rehab facilities or education clinics. But there is no extra money because it all goes to the war on drugs which OBVIOUSLY hasn't accomplished enough.

Blow Jobs aren't legal in my state but I don't have to have one everyday.


Sex is legal and it's very addictive.

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/...ap2402473.html

Natl. survey of teen usage of drugs, booze, tobaccy:

"The survey results expose the abysmal failure that is the War on Drugs," said Scarlett Swerdlow, executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

Let me say first that I think that drugs should be legal, but am I the only person that sees the irony in this argument while at the same time in another thread I know I've seen some of you bitching about cigs.

It cracks me up to read some the arguments here.

The same laws should apply to drugs as to alcohol. Driving under the influence, being in school under the influence, etc.