Think of the implications we currently experience by allowing the continuation in black market sales of illicit drugs. There are huge benefits to be had with the controlled sale of narcotics.
Do you think drugs should be legal?
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Think of the implications we currently experience by allowing the continuation in black market sales of illicit drugs. There are huge benefits to be had with the controlled sale of narcotics.
It's tough to try and argue for criminalisation unless you bring about a pathetically weak and academically panned argument for sustaining social morality, but I don't think I'd like to see many illegal drugs made more availible than they already are.
THIS IS SUCH A MYTH.
Junkies are not magically able to fund their habits because the drugs are legal. They still steal or whore themselves out to pay for it...
But it would be taxable and there would be far less AK47s involved in the production side.
There is no room for logic in this!!
It IS semi-legal. You just can't solicit it, such as the ladies on the roadside. In every city in the UK there are dozens of brothels, all completely legal and pay their taxes. There's no direct allusions to sex involved, it's all 'massages' and such, and police and councils always look the other way. Prostitution in the UK is one of the most misunderstood industries there is, it doesn't help that a lot of people who speak out on the issue has a lot of wrong 'facts' and beliefs surrounding it.
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Yes, but the illegal trade of drugs (dealers and importers) would be greatly reduced and the increase in taxes generated from the sales could be used to help fund the police and NHS to stop any drug related crime and help people who are addicted.
There's a lot of benefits to legalising drugs.
This, and then the police could spend time on crime that matters to most people.
I never presented that argument.
How would crime rate drop. Easily available, so more people do it, more people get addicted. More crime rate so junkies can feed their habit.
In principle I agree people should be able to do what they want. But we are no longer a small hunter gather type of society and these freedoms, generally just don't work in densely populated societies.
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I assumed he was talking about the possible tax revenue from the legal sale of drugs rather than the 'incomes' of the drug takers.
But even so, if drugs were legal they should be much cheaper. For example, where I live people pay £25 for about 3.0 grams of cannabis. You show me another plant that costs so much per gram on the open market?
If weed was legal, I'd expect to get about an ounce (at least) for that amount of money. Once you introduce mass production and remove the need for 'risk money' the dealers added it would be much much cheaper.
Isn't this self explanatory? If X is a crime and 1000 people do it, decriminalise X and your crime rate reduces by 1000.
Also as I said above, if drugs were legal you would expect them to be a lot cheaper than they are now and by your logic we should minimalise alcohol now and there are far more alcoholics than drug addicts and presumeable some of them are stealing to fund their habbit.
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A) they wouldn't be any cheaper, there's this thing called tax
B) so you've reduced x, but increased y and z to compensate. More people addicted/using means more related crime. So you've gotten rid of the least problematic crime and increased the worse crimes.
Yes as would many many many off us.
Who wouldn't enjoy a spliff and some would prefer harder stuff.
Some drugs are in my opinion too downright dangerous for them to be legal, Meth for one.
The less dangerous drugs though, should be legalised, NOT decriminalised.
With legalisation, you get regulation and tax revenue.
With decriminalisation you just have a few (I stress the few, its very rare for people to be charged with a criminal offence for actually taking the drugs, and selling would still be illegal) less people in jail, practically no benefit whatsoever.
I assume you already do/have then? So being illegal hasn't stopped you...
Then let's make alcohol illegal, hoorah
The real question is why something should be illegal if it practically does no harm when done in moderation, like alcohol.
Have.
Being illegal does have a big effect.
It is not easy to obtain, especially for a causaly users.
Put it this way 95% of my mates will smoke it, only 2 will actually go and buy it. Make it available in shops and it'll be treated like alcohol. More people will smoke it and more people will smoke it more. Now this sint a big issue with cannabis. But for other drugs, espeically the highly addictive, highly damaging drugs. It would be a huge issue.
Making it Legal takes away the Argo of sourcing it, it takes wpaway the danger of trying it the first time. As kids you always get a split of people oh this is illegal i ain't going to try it and the ah sod it, I'll try it anyway.