What is your position on drug legalization?

Discussion in 'Free Speech Alley' started by Atreus21, Dec 9, 2011.

  1. Rex_B

    Rex_B Geaux Time

    That's such a load of crap and you know it.

    Alcohol and prescription drugs are readily available in every household. They don't need the "illegal" stuff.
     
  2. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

    Legal or illegal is not the problem. It's the glorification of drugs by idiots who think they are OK.
     
  3. Robidoux87

    Robidoux87 You call that a double?

    Remember kids, don't smoke weed. You don't want to end up like:
    - Our last three Presidents (at least)
    - 16-time Olympic Medalist Michael Phelps
    - Hundreds of accomplished and top-selling musicians
    - Our Country's Founding Fathers
    - Steve Jobs
    - Ted Turner

    I can't believe the "pot derails lives" narrative still has any steam.
     
  4. Rex_B

    Rex_B Geaux Time

    You are showing your age old man.
     
  5. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

    I'm showing my wisdom and experience.
     
  6. Rex_B

    Rex_B Geaux Time

    Oh so being older is a good thing now?
     
  7. Atreus21

    Atreus21 Founding Member

    Okay. So lives have been ruined by drugs. Regardless of legality.

    Precisely because drugs are illegal, many lives have been lost in the violence necessary to acquire those drugs.

    The people who stand most to benefit from legalization are the unwilling victims in this. At the very least, the people who die from drug use were willing victims. If they want to kill themselves and ruin their lives, that's their call. But government does and should have a roll in protecting those who wanted no part of it, and they are most in harm's way by drug criminalization.
     
  8. Atreus21

    Atreus21 Founding Member

    In all fairness, that's kind of like saying there's no need to get a college degree because neither Michael Dell nor Bill Gates did.

    In other words, they were extremely exceptional cases.
     
  9. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

    I can't agree, at least in college. Alcohol is everywhere the students are. Marijuana less so, and narcotics hardly at all.
     
  10. Robidoux87

    Robidoux87 You call that a double?

    Hardly. Those are just famous people that we know about. Among the successful people that I know who either once did or still do partake: Dentist, stockbroker, teacher, surgeon, FBI agent, attorney, author, PhD in mechanical engineering, professor, investment banker.

    Half of these people are parents - good ones.

    Portugal tried decriminalization, and it's a massive success: Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies | Glenn Greenwald | Cato Institute: White Paper

    One cannot claim to be a small-government conservative while supporting America's wasteful, unwinnable social engineering project: "The Drug War."
     

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