Quote:
You just made government larger
It is not like the war on drugs did not make government larger by itself anyway.
Quote:
Dox47 wrote:
There's a very simple solution; tax the drugs and use that money exclusively to deal with the issues they cause.
In short I think your position has affirmed this statement:
“For every complex problem,” H.L. Mencken once said, “there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”
And for every correct simple solution there is a guy who abuses that quote instead of actually verifying whether the solution is correct or not.
JNathanK wrote:
Hell no. I've seen what hard drugs like coke, heroin, and meth, can do to people. It turns them into demons. The mistake people make with heroin is they think they can do it once and never try it again. It feels so f***ing good and the cravings feel so f***ing bad though that even if, intellectually, someone wants to leave it alone, they're compelled to run out and buy somemore of it and shoot it up.
You can make absolutist arguments about personal liberty, but I wouldn't wish a heroin, cocaine, or meth addiction on my worst enemy. I think they should stop treating addicts as criminals though. As long as they haven't done anything truly criminal, like kill someone or mug someone, they shouldn't be sent to jail. They should be given treatment instead.
It is not like the question of whether these drugs are bad for you or not is relevant to the legality discussion. Just saying this because making the drugs illegal does not seem to make a real effect on stopping people from consuming them and becoming addicted. If the making drugs illegal actually prevented addiction rather than just finance guerilla groups and corrupt governments in South America, then I would be all for making it illegal. Too bad things don't seem to work that way.
_________________
.
07 Oct 2011, 2:44 pm
