Do you think drugs should be legal?

Not that I do weed myself, but basically everyone does it so it wouldn't make much of a difference if that was legalised. The gov't can tax it like tobacco to help beat the deficit. Other drugs, no.
 
Moses said:
What's 'very little'?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19372456

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Arguably less than tobacco and alcohol.
 
Still enough. I used to have strong beliefs in cannabis but seriously, it's still harmful enough to merit serious consideration.
 
If you think drugs should be freely available then just hit google and search for the guy who fed his own face to his dogs whilst on crystal meth. The pictures are lovely.

:rolleyes:
 
Glaucus said:
A) they wouldn't be any cheaper, there's this thing called tax
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And you think would would cancel out the other?

As I said, does a bit of weed really cost a dealer £25 for 3 grams to produce?

An 8th of weed would cost less than a pack of fags to produce for a factory producing it legally. Even if the government were to tax them it at the same rate as cigarettes you'd still be looking at paying £6 for an 8th max.

There is no way, that commercially grown cannabis would cost anywhere near £25 for less than an eighth even with the highest tax added we'd ever seen.

Glaucus said:
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.
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Again, if your logic is true and anything that people may steal for should be banned, why aren't you calling for the banning of alcohol which (I would estimate) is the cause of far more theft that drugs currently are.
 
^TANK^ said:
I would be quite happy for the UK to have Singapore stance on drugs.

Taken from WikiTravel :).

WARNING: Singapore treats drug offences extremely severely. The death penalty is mandatory for those convicted of trafficking, manufacturing, importing or exporting more than 15 g of heroin, 30 g of morphine, 30 g of cocaine, 500 g of cannabis, 200 g of cannabis resin and 1.2 kg of opium, and possession of these quantities is all that is needed for you to be convicted. For unauthorised consumption, there is a maximum of 10 years' jail or fine of $20,000, or both. You can be charged for unauthorised consumption as long as traces of illicit drugs are found in your system, even if you can prove that they were consumed outside the country, and you can be charged for trafficking as long as drugs are found in bags that are in your possession or in your room, even if they aren't yours and regardless of whether you're aware of them.

Have that you dirty ******* pond life scum lol :p.
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Moses said:
Yes, which is quite important. It seemingly affects developing brains, so it's important to consider that when considering how to legalise marijuana. For example, perhaps legalising it for people over twenty-five would make sense, considering brain development is pretty much done then (I think!)



Irrelevant.
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Not completely irrelevant, but I accept your point.


Personally I think they should treat the legalisation the same as tobacco, warn the consumer of the potential side effects on the box, but an 18 age limit should suffice.


To those saying the tax wouldn't make it around the same price, it probably would. The tobacco and Alcohol idustries are very powerful, and I doubt they would take to kindly to canabbis being cheaper than their products.
 
should drugs be legal is a poor way to ask such a question, cannabis yes with age restriction and stiff regulation on strength etc, crack and heroin or prescription drugs that are abused like oxy or codeine most certainly not and there is no valid argument under the sun to justify the idea either.
 
Well lets put it this way, they are never ever going to stop people taking drugs so why not legalize it and make is safe?

It will happen, just not in our lifetime.
 
The evidence (talking scientifically here, not emotive hearsay bull **** that most of the world appears to be built on....) seems to show that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol. Why the more dangerous substance is legal, freely available, taxable and promotable while the other is not, is beyond me.

Circles in circles and other political bull ****
 
Main reason is the other two have been legal side will ages and we can see that government would love to ban both. They've got tobacco on to a massive decline and now they're moving their fight to alcohol. They will continue to add new regulations until users gets low enough to ban it with little effect on public opinion.
 
Theophany said:
So what "implications we currently experience by allowing the continuation in black market sales of illicit drugs" were you talking about? Having a bad trip??
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The billions of pounds that goes to organized crime?

and the various horrors they inflict on people around the world with that funding?
 
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