Hypothetical Qs - Drugs

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Little32

See, I am of the mind that folks should be able to do what they please with their own bodies and lives as long as their choices do not infringe upon my right to make choices about how I live my life.

This is where the legality issue comes into play. Declaring something illegal undercuts the far reaching repercussions of someone choosing to become a drug addict (i.e. the attendant crimes that are frequently associated with drug use), implications that might infringe on others' rights to live as they choose. In that respect, I understand why something might need to be illegal, even though I feel that folks should be able to do what they want with themselves, their bodies, and their lives.

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.

[33girl]

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.

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