Re: What Are Some Rights Citizens Have When Dealing With The Law?
the drug legalization debate is about morality but even moreso about the obvious negative effects drug use has on society. I could understand legalizing weed (65 percent of the Mexican drug cartel US profit comes from weed), and certainly decriminalizing it further. It is no worse than alcohol. However, there is no way society could afford to legalize hard drugs.
Though weed has health problems and problems with addiction...it is not close to being at the same level obviously as the effect that hard drugs have on the mind and body (drugs like Meth turns otherwise decent people into devils) and how difficult it is for many people to kick the habit once they start. We do not want to make them readily available and easier to get. We do not want a larger range of people trying hard drugs.
We can't just allow people to sell drugs like heroine. It has no place in society. People compare it to alcohol, but you can't just have a shot of heroine with dinner and not abuse it....it can't be done. It has few medical benefits and only leads to horrible addiction and either expensive recovery or death. Just because prisons are being built like casinos and there is corruption in our own enforcement authority, that is no reason to throw up our hands and legalize everything.
The negative effects it would have on society would be overwhelming with first of all the health problems, as well as added financial problems...even more people going broke, stealing stuff for drug money, robbing people, and the cost of detox. It's not worth risking an entire society becoming addicted because the government wants to make it legal so they can tax it. We can't allow people to just kill themselves with addiction and send a bad message to kids that it's OK.
and here's another thought, in this economic downturn...once you legalize drugs, users can now charge their drug purchase on their credit cards. hmmm...so now, when someone gets addicted, and runs up their credit card debt buying drugs, loses their jobs and files bankruptcy, doesn't pay their bills, lending institutions take a loss. I wonder how bad that could get.
the drug legalization debate is about morality but even moreso about the obvious negative effects drug use has on society. I could understand legalizing weed (65 percent of the Mexican drug cartel US profit comes from weed), and certainly decriminalizing it further. It is no worse than alcohol. However, there is no way society could afford to legalize hard drugs.
Though weed has health problems and problems with addiction...it is not close to being at the same level obviously as the effect that hard drugs have on the mind and body (drugs like Meth turns otherwise decent people into devils) and how difficult it is for many people to kick the habit once they start. We do not want to make them readily available and easier to get. We do not want a larger range of people trying hard drugs.
We can't just allow people to sell drugs like heroine. It has no place in society. People compare it to alcohol, but you can't just have a shot of heroine with dinner and not abuse it....it can't be done. It has few medical benefits and only leads to horrible addiction and either expensive recovery or death. Just because prisons are being built like casinos and there is corruption in our own enforcement authority, that is no reason to throw up our hands and legalize everything.
The negative effects it would have on society would be overwhelming with first of all the health problems, as well as added financial problems...even more people going broke, stealing stuff for drug money, robbing people, and the cost of detox. It's not worth risking an entire society becoming addicted because the government wants to make it legal so they can tax it. We can't allow people to just kill themselves with addiction and send a bad message to kids that it's OK.
and here's another thought, in this economic downturn...once you legalize drugs, users can now charge their drug purchase on their credit cards. hmmm...so now, when someone gets addicted, and runs up their credit card debt buying drugs, loses their jobs and files bankruptcy, doesn't pay their bills, lending institutions take a loss. I wonder how bad that could get.
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