What is currently legal but you think should be illegal?

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@ Tequila
I know that they shouldn't control your lives, but people don't understand the side effects of it.
They take it and the majority of them have really extreme reactions.
There is no warning, the label just says "do not smoke this", because people really pay attention to labels.
Somebody should be the warning voice.
It's not like putting a tax on sugar or potato chips.
There is less of a chance that you will die from that than from this drug.
It is HARMFUL, and people need to know that.
Tell me what you would do, or do you not care if they DIE and go through seizures, paranoia, extreme fatigue, and utter sickness from this underground( meaning not well known) drug?

The cure for things like that is sunlight. Let people know that it is a dangerous and harmful drug. Problem is that you can't leave such things to the 'drugs are bad, mmkay' set as the sort of people who take drugs are likely to ignore them out of hand.

So, yes, publish the dangers of such a drug so that people know how risky and harmful taking such a drug can be. Why is it on the market at all if it is as likely to result in death as it is though, is my question? Why would anyone want to bother?

its basically a designer drug,
they designed synthetic cannabinoid mixes that were legal and made it possible to sell it everywhere pretty much.
then those specific synthetic compounds were banned and they moved on to the next generation, in the end they will have to use cannabinoids they wouldnt have before because of the side effects.
it's a nasty buisness only made possible because regular weed is illegal.

Legality would be better for any substance because with that we can be more socially accepting towards every living being. People could trust one another a lot more about what they do in their lives and know they can trust the advise and research they come across instead of ending up outcast and less likely to realise the risks of substance misuse.

Natural law could govern the issue of psychoactive drugs and even food if we were all a little bit wiser. Getting to this point is the difficult task,

As you say they bring in a lot of tax, also victims of nicotine or alcohol addiction will die sooner so their early death saves money in benefits, healthcare, and various other costs too - smokers and drinkers are profitable. It makes me laugh when people complain about the cost of anti-smoking campaigns and free NRT on the NHS, these methods are proven not to work which is exactly what makes them so profitable! Without smokers and drinkers (who are often refused medical treatment themselves) far fewer people would receive medical treatment, ironically smoking and drinking is more prevalent amongst working class and under classes, so this is the lower classes essentially paying for their own poor health, poor healthcare and poor death.

But again, we're getting off the point.

Which is why lower-class people, when exhorted to 'save the NHS' by people who treat them like dirt and often refuse them care, they might well wonder "why bother?"

The NHS, a lot of the time, is more for the benefit of the people in it rather than those people whom it is supposed to serve. Not always, but there is more than a small element of that.

China still does it.

-breeding and selling any animal
-killing any animal
-being rude on public transport..you should automatically give your seat to an elderly person,rude teenagers!

Freedom is precious. I find it sad that so many people are willing to give it up.

Energy drinks.

Animal testing

I deliberately didn't mention the PRC.

What if the elderly person in question doesn't want the seat?

+ 1,000

Minding other people's business.

That being said, civil forfeitures should not be legal. I could come up with a whole list of things it should not be legal for the state to do, but there are very few areas I can think of for the private citizen that need more rather than less legal restrictions.

@Vigilans: What's the problem with hollow point ammunition? You do know that the police use it because it's less likely to injure innocent bystanders due to ricochets and over-penetration, right?

Pretty much what I'd like to post - alcohol could in theory be illegal for obvious reasons, but anyone who knows about the prohibition knows how obvious it is that it could never happen. Just look even more recent at gun control and how much that failed horribly.

Would be nice, my brother just got piss drunk and broke his toe, he's going to wake up with a pool of blood on his bed and wonder where it came from. Oh well, that's not the least of his stories, thank god he doesn't drive.

Not much I can think of to illegalize, but I can name plenty of things illegal that could be legalized... I'd start a topic on it, but 1) It's going to start a huge pot debate 2) I don't like starting topics. Who wants to start one?