There have been many discussions at diverse places regarding partially legalizing certain drugs and prostitution in order to tax it and regulate it better. The thought is that through pricing and availability the illegal market would dry up. Marijuana is the drug of choice to be first decriminalized. AS for where it stops who knows but the hard economic times are challenging many to think outside the box. Also with the aging population many know better what the drugs are today and are not as afraid of them or their effects as past generations have been.
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I cannot think of a medical use for cocaine. In my opinion it has solely recreational purposes and i don't see a need for it's decriminalization.
Marijuana on the other hand could be medically beneficial in place of addictive potentially dangerous drugs that are currently being used.
As for the legalization of Marijuana,
I agree. I believe it should be taxed and sold to adults like liquor.
Prohibition only increased crime in the early 20th centry. Prohibition
again of marijuana has been only making criminals rich, and criminals
out of users. Marijuana is less dangerous than drinking. I don't know
of any marijuana users that have died or phyically been sickened in any
way. I know many friends and an ex-wife that have died due to only drinking.
Skippy
Cocaine is available in liquid and powder form for use in various prescriptions. Even in ALabama, there are docs prescribing marijuana to their patients and it is available through black market sources in script form. The $2trillion dollars we have spent on the war on drugs has been a complete failure. Marijuana is 10X more potent than it was 25 years ago, and costs about the same. Capitalism Works!!!
As a conservative, with a nasty streak of libetarianism, I say legalize marijuana, like liquor. We need the taxes and it will starve the narcotrafficantes of their income.
Legalize prostitution, but keep it off the streets. And, have harsh penalties for pimps.
If prostitution is legalized we will never have enough politicians 'on the floor' to get anything accomplished.
If prostitution is legalized we will never have enough politicians 'on the floor' to get anything accomplished.
You say that as if its a bad thing! During the better times of little government interference, DC was noted for its high class houses of ill repute.
Should we so they can be regulated and taxed? No...I supposed that would be a by-product, but not why we should...drug prohibition (ban on prostitution for that matter) attacks the American principle that all men are created equal...that we all have the right to life, liberty and property...that we own ourselves and the fruit of our labor...drug prohibition does this by giving some the right to rule over others...to decide and force one set of morals on another...that is decidedly UN-American.
This dosen't even address the costs of the "drug war" and it's absolute failure despite the mountians of money spent on it...thousands of needless incarcerations, etc.
Either you believe a person owns himself and he has a right to life, liberty and property...or you place conditions on liberty...which isn't really liberty.
Practically speaking, if you believe in following the Constitution as intended (speaking to you Tea Partiers), then Federal drug laws are unconstitutional...the feds have no enumerated power to ban or regulate them...All questions on drugs/prostitution, Constitutionally, should be determined by each individual and sovereign state.
I am convinced that the only reason weed is illegal is that it would cut into big pharmacy's profits. A nice legal house of ill repute would come in handy for all of us ugly men.
Doubt that marijuana is a major concern of big pharma. Weed has the same carcinogen problems as tobacco, when smoked.
Doubt that marijuana is a major concern of big pharma. Weed has the same carcinogen problems as tobacco, when smoked.
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sorry, that's wrong.. another person spreading propaganda with no actual facts..... part of the reason the medical world is against marijuana is .... how to disassociate cigarette smoke from cannabis smoke... in all actuality, cannabinoids are the one thing in the human body that stop cancer from reproducing/spreading.... all the MAJOR drug companies have agreed the next major advances in medication will come from cannabis! so, put that in your pipe and smoke it!
If I am in pain, carcinogen problems are hardly a concern.
" A new study finds that the development of bullous lung disease occurs in marijuana smokers approximately 20 years earlier than tobacco smokers."
Not the point.
If daredevils and adrenaline can risk their lives for thrills and drinkers can drink till
their livers gone. Then why can't someone in the privacy of their own home, hit their
bong until the munchies put them to sleep? It's a matter of the government trying to
controll every aspect of our lives.
Skippy
As, I've stated, I'm for legalizing weed. However, I also recognize problems with it, just as we have with alcohol. Used, especially, to excess, both will harm you.
ummmm..... how would someone get a US Patent for a cancer causing drug?
US Patent 6630507, titled "Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants"
That is the key, used to excess. But weed isn't as addictive as nicotine or pain killers so it will never be legal. Weed would eliminate the need for a lot of the manufactured stuff.