Should prohibition end?

StonedPenguin

StonedPenguin

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As the title says, IYO should prohibition end?

If a mod could add a poll with yes & no for answer's I'd appreciate it.. I cannot see how to add a poll myself..

Edit: I mean the illegal-ality of drugs with the UK (Mainly Cannabis)
 
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No I mean the illegal status of drugs within the UK, ie: Cannabis, Cocaine, Ecstasy etc.

All prohibition is doing at present is giving billions to organised crime gangs to fund other terrorism amoungst other things..
 
Seeing as you didn't even actually say what you were talking about in the OP, I'd say it was you that wasn't looking at the 'big picture'. But anyway.
 
StonedPenguin said:
No I mean the illegal status of drugs within the UK, ie: Cannabis, Cocaine, Ecstasy etc.

All prohibition is doing at present is giving billions to organised crime gangs to fund other terrorism amoungst other things..
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It's a fallacy that legalising drugs would end crime. You think tax on alcohol is bad? What do you reckon it'd be on cocaine and heroine?
 
I'm sure selling drugs isn't the only source of funding for terrorism.

Are you are saying that it should be legal to take any form of narcotic? Alcohol abuse is already a big enough problem, and you want to add drugs to that? Madness.
 
A.N.Other said:
Seeing as you didn't even actually say what you were talking about in the OP, I'd say it was you that wasn't looking at the 'big picture'. But anyway.
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That is true, I should have been more clear in the OP.

My main concern is that they're around 3 million Cannabis user's in the UK. The governments head drugs advisor (david nutt) told the government not to re-classify cannabis from a C to a B and he also showed them scientific evidence to backup his view's that cannabis is less harmfull than Alcohol and much much less toxic than cigs.

These days the government ignors blatent scientific advice from thier own board and would rather keep the The Daily Fail reader's happy because the lethal super killer-skunk that is deadly to man, Rather than expressing its medicinal values and pointing out thats its not toxic at all..

Infact you'd have to inhale 15,000 lb of pot **within seconds** to die from it.. Compare the toxity to alcohol and tobacco and Cannabis is much much less harmful.

Rant over :mad:
 
I think Cannabis should be legalised, just because it's not a very extreme drug at all. Certainly not as powerful as alcohol, and it just makes people slow and dopey, so it doesn't make people violent and stuff. The tenuous links to mental health problems are a load of rubbish and the only proven negative health effect from smoke inhalation can be avoided using a vaporiser or eating it.

Other higher end drugs tho do need to be controlled, mainly due to their addictive nature rather than the actual effects. To that end I suppose LSD and similar drugs could be downgraded a bit.
 
godinman said:
I think Cannabis should be legalised, just because it's not a very extreme drug at all. Certainly not as powerful as alcohol, and it just makes people slow and dopey, so it doesn't make people violent and stuff. The tenuous links to mental health problems are a load of rubbish and the only proven negative health effect from smoke inhalation can be avoided using a vaporiser or eating it.
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I agree completly, I have a close family member who has MS, Luckily it isnt developing at a fast rate and the person isnt in much pain at all, Note this is all down to cannabis as drugs over the counter for MS are evil with horrid side-effects for very little pain relief, Savitex is useless and horrid... Cannabis = very very good pain relief with 0 ill side effects, I've been told many times that Cannabis does that what Prozac should do but 10x better.
 
Prohibition has been doing more harm than good. This has been proven time and time again. Legalise drugs, and you put the black market dealers out of business overnight. Those are the true criminals, not the users.
 
Marijuana should be legalised, but other drugs should not.

I remember watching a show ages ago when I found out even Brad Pitt smokes marijuana.
 
The "War on Drugs" has been a total failure. Global consumption has increased during this policy and we spend upwards of $100 billion a year in enforcement, with little to no effect.

There is a big difference between legalisation and regulation. When most people talk about "legalisation" they aren't on about a free for all, but bringing it under regulated control of quality & licensed supply, just like alcohol and tobacco are now and yes, tax it, rather than be a cost be an income stream.

Just recently a consortium of ex-leaders spoke of the failure of the system as it is now http://www.channel4.com/news/report-war-on-drugs-not-working including Koffi Annan & Richard Branson.
 
StonedPenguin said:
That is true, I should have been more clear in the OP.

My main concern is that they're around 3 million Cannabis user's in the UK. The governments head drugs advisor (david nutt) told the government not to re-classify cannabis from a C to a B and he also showed them scientific evidence to backup his view's that cannabis is less harmfull than Alcohol and much much less toxic than cigs.

These days the government ignors blatent scientific advice from thier own board and would rather keep the The Daily Fail reader's happy because the lethal super killer-skunk that is deadly to man, Rather than expressing its medicinal values and pointing out thats its not toxic at all..

Infact you'd have to inhale 15,000 lb of pot **within seconds** to die from it.. Compare the toxity to alcohol and tobacco and Cannabis is much much less harmful.

Rant over :mad:
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Then why do I know someone who died from weed? Ripped up all their stomache from smoking too much when they started puking and died from the internal bleeding and spewing acid about his body.

Quite frankly, anyone who thinks legalising drugs is a good idea is a moron. The mortality rate would hit a new high. People do stupid things when on drugs, just like alcohol. The differnce is alcohol has a lot of warnings before you do something stupid and most people will puke/passout first.

Not to mention that there IS a correlation between smoking tobacco and weed and that would make more people smoke tabaco, which is also a bad thing.
 
BlackDragon said:
Are you are saying that it should be legal to take any form of narcotic? Alcohol abuse is already a big enough problem, and you want to add drugs to that? Madness.
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Why do you think making it legal would vastly change the amount of people who take drugs?

Lots of people already do (me not included), legal or not and I doubt those that don't would start having some crack just because it's legal.

Legalising drugs, marijuana at least would potentially be a huge source revenue whilst also reducing the workload on Police and seeming to improve crime rates. Not only that it would be properly governed so there would be minimum levels of quality, which would improve safety for the end users.
 
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