I was watching CNN a couple months ago and they interviewed a couple people on the legalization of certain drugs. Some drugs should remain illegal for obvious reasons. Like crack,crystal methamphetamine, and a few off those off-drugs like LSD and angel dust that you don’t really hear about.
I don’t know which drugs are worst, heroine, crack or coke.
But marijuana, and 1 or 2 of the other drugs should be legalized. Why and how?
How: Tobacco should be replaced with marijuana for one. You’d have to be a dumb *** not to realize that they’re both addictive drugs, (tobacco gives you a certain high sort of) and marijuana only does minor to minorly mild memory reduction as far as we know. I also read that marijuana doesn’t give cancer. Oh yeah and a probably 2 or 3% chance of testicular cancer in people under the age of lets say 18 or 19. You can still function pretty much normally if you’re stoned unlike alcohol. You’ll just be about 30% slower.
That said, any tobacco company should switch to marijuana and start advertising it like its alcohol. All risks must be extremely clear on any and all cigarette cartons and packs.
As for the other drugs, I believe the best bet for those would be government run shops. Yes, the U.S government selling you drugs. I see it like this. You go to the government-run store.
You’ll have your official drug user card on you. You order some drugs, and they scan your card to see when you last made a purchase. If it’s too soon to buy more drugs, meaning they can’t sell you enough often enough to get you too addicted. THEN whenever someone doesn’t want to be a drug addict anymore, they go to their local government run drug rehab clinic. Note that this must be affordable and effective to the mid 3rd class or else a lot of poor people will be addicted to drugs. They sign up, do drug tests weekly, if they fail 3 drug tests, they go to an addict’s jail.
Which is jail, except instead of killers and rapists you have drug addicts that failed the clinics.
Why: If it were like this, not only would the U.S government get the taxes they so greedily want and need to keep America running, we’d have efficient drug control. Well… a lot more efficient than what we have now.
I don’t see any faults. Of course there will be the criminals that try to find loopholes or find some way to try to break the law, but hey. Nothing’s perfect.
One more thing. No, the president can’t toke up on marijuana whenever he wants just because it’s legal. The consequences would be the same going to work or driving drunk.
I believe that if people have the legal option of marijuana, alcohol and cocaine/heroine/crack whichever of those 3 drugs are the least deadly, most people wouldn’t choose the really deadly illegal drugs when they can have a legal alternative that is almost as powerful.
1. marijuana 2. alcohol 3. cocaine
With these 3 drugs and an efficient rehab system America could just maybe solve the drug problem and gain billions of dollars in the process.
If anyone sees faults, please let me know. I want to perfect this idea.
That’s all fine and dandy but there are people that will find and do that dope no matter what the law sez or does, Your idea might help but will never eradicate the problem.
They tried to prohibit alcohol and the Mafia was formed.. Now they have prohibitted Marijuana and other “street” drugs and we have all these drug cartels and gangs that will kill to gain the lifestyle and money that these illegal drugs generate for more crime..
I am a firm believer of legalizing pot and de-criminalizing a few other drugs.
Legallizing pot will provide a new industry that can make up for some of the job losses in the world today as well. You need planters, harvesters, packaging, marketing, distribution,etc.. AND the police can be put to use doing other things that they have no time for.. Like investigatin REAL crimes. Have you ever seen anyone beat another because they couldn’t control their rage on POT?. Maybe less prowess in the sack, and sleeping through the movie, but hey.. I’ll take that any day over a drug or alcohol induced beating. I’m sure they can develop a breathalizer for the driving under the influence thing too…
You can do cocaine and pass a drug test 3 days later, but smoke a joint and a month later, you are a criminal still.. Ridiculous!
I’ve got a better solution,execute ALL drug dealers,drug users,and drunks,and execute ALL people that sell and distibute alcohol,it would get rid of 97% of the two legged anusholes in this country,and our country would be better off without them! Death to all druggies and drunks!