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Originally Posted by Drolefille
This. Although I do not agree with the current status of every substance on the list, I don't think we should make everything legal either.
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Any faith I had in the government knowing what should be legal or illegal (which wasn't much to begin with) went down the toilet when the heroin use in the midsize city near my hometown went up. Do you know why it went up? Because people couldn't get a hold of Oxycontin - which is a perfectly legal drug. Digest that again - they couldn't get the legal drug, so they substituted the drug which is pretty much considered to be the Big Bad of illegal drugs.
The reasons that the drugs that are illegal, are illegal, are 99% political and have nothing to do with their effects or addictive properties as there are legal drugs that are equally as dangerous.
Pimping this show again, but it really shines a light on a lot of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQlk01sxO_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrd5x...eature=related