Why is everybody so against drugs being legal?

[pumkin]

Isn't it better to educate people more specifically? With more education, people would know what they would be choosing to put in their own body's and in the process if they choose to do that, then people aren't illegally profiting from it.

First off, with marijuana being the most medical thing on the planet, if people were more educated on all drugs and all the different strains of marijuana, people who are suffering depression, anxiety etc. could smoke/vape/eat the strain right for them and that would help treat many things and reduce the amount of suicides and such. It would also reduce the amount of people who turn to harder things out of depression and such e.g. heroin, cocaine

Magic Mushrooms such as liberty caps aren't physically damaging or addictive. The problem is that it can give people problems if they already mental problems. If people are taught about them, people can have their cautions. I think the same goes to things such as DMT and LSD. These things are also very spiritual when used correctly and can make people feel in peace and as one with the earth.

Heroin and cocaine being legal would put criminals out of business. It also would be pretty pure and not added with anything. With all the education on the safer drugs, less people would more likely try this and have rehabs and advice anyway. Education given, and warnings on packets, it'd be peoples own fault for dependency.



Doing all this would make the governments more money rather than spending money on the Police to look for all these drugs and plants. Shouldn't we be in control of our own body's instead of the government making it for us ?
@impaler19120 I understand your view,I'm not saying anything bad about it because I asked in the first place and I wanted to see peoples opinions and see if I learn anything.

Won't more money be saved/made because the government is profiting from drugs being sold and not paying for drug squads and such?


From released studies the list of what cannabis can do is pretty much endless, kills cancer cells, tumors, treats many many mental illness and physical pains and spasms and helps grow brain cells. I've looked at many studies about marijuana, mushrooms and DMT. I've not looked enough into LSD. All very self spiritual and searching drugs that also have studies (especially DMT) showing that they can defeat addiction of things within 3 uses. I'll have to look more into that study myself

[Auroch]

Terrified Cons feel they have to control EVERYTHING. They have to control your habits, they really have to control women's sexuality, and they have to try and construct a world that they can feel in control of - something their fathers would recognize and approve of.

Mostly Cons feel the need to control your thoughts - and if you smoke some marijuana you might have thoughts that aren't strictly republican in nature.

[whisperingsong662]

People a lot smarter than you or I have already done the research,
and have concluded that drugs such as you have described,
are hallucinogenic, and alter your thought processes to the point
where your judgement and abilities are impaired.
What's to learn about those drugs, that we don't already know?
You are just rationalizing, and trying to make something illegal and bad for you
acceptable to others like you.
Nice try.... close, but no cigar!

[vambo number six]

In the UK, government policy on drugs is decided by the gutter press. This has been the case since at least the early 1960s. The result is that people in this country are less educated about the subject today than they were 50 years ago.

[impaler19120]

Well educating people is ALWAYS a good start to correcting problems. Obviously (and unfortunately) you don't seem very well educated on what legitmate science (medicine, pharmacology and psychology) says about the substances that you are so "Gung Ho" for.

I agree that marihauna has some valid therapuetic uses, and medicinal marihauna, dispensed with a Doctor's prescription should be legal. Marihauna is not a magic cure, and it's real benefit is relatively limited. Real scientists tend to agree with me. Proponents of marihauna (like NORML) prefer a more radical (and incorrect) analysis.

Now, lets face it, alcohol is responsible for terrible physical, psychological and sociological problems. It costs $millions annually in medical care, lost time at work, car crashes and destroyed families. Lots of that money comes out of my pocket as a taxpayer.

For all its troubles, alcohol is frequently consumed in small amounts as a beverage that produces no discernable effects. Even the "Pilgrims" drank beer, because it was much safer than water. No group frowned on drunkeness more than them. Hell, they would not even celebrate Christmas. But, there is no reason to use marihauna (aside from medicinal marihauna) other than to get "high". Voluntary intoxication, altering one's perception of reality, is a very psychologically harmful action.

I am sure that you not educated enough, to know that most of the susbstances you are talking about were NOT illegal in the UK or US until about 100 years ago. They were legal, and the deleterious effects that they had on society cause them to become outlawed.

Legal cocaine or heroin won't be able to compete economically with illegal cocaine. And, people who abuse cocaine and heroin suffer from serious medical and psychological problems, that will untlimately cost me, a tax payer, more and more money to care for them.

I know you won't agree, but there is just nothing good to be said about substance abuse. And, any susbtance that can alter one's perception of reality has the potential to be either physically or psychologically addictive. Right now, some of the most significant drugs of abuse in our cities are not heroin or cocaine, by prescrition pain killers like Oxycodone being sld on the black market.

I really don't care what you put in your body. And, I don't care if you live or die. However, I do care if my tax Dollars have to be spent to provide medical care for you because you CHOSE to be a substance abuser. And I do care if you decide to steal from me or my neighbors to pay for your drugs of choice. And, I do care if your lack of productivity hurts the economy or social fiber of my community.

[RadicalDude]

Because they are addicts. Addicted to violently controlling one another. Science has shown that when people control others they get a "high" off of it very similar to the high one gets off of cocaine. The thing is, the high only lasts temporarily and soon the authoritarian control freak needs their next fix. So drugs provide a great excuse for these addicts to feed their addiction since they can rationalize their acts of violence with "drugs are bad" platitudes.

[Tin-God]

in a ideal world maybe, but we have to live in the real world and the fact is a lot of people out there simply can not be responsible for them selves
you talk about teaching people the finer points of drug taking, well we have been telling people for 40 years that to much drinking is bad for them yet today there are still thousands of people that are ill from the abuse of drink and that number is going up
you say that making drugs legal will take them out of the hands of criminals, well that is rubbish, cigarettes are legal but criminals smuggle them and they will do the same with drugs if they are legal or not because they will always under cut the government on price
wake up

[David]

Heck PumKin - ask them - you might well find out that you are basing your assumption on your own prejudices, not theirs - me - I really couldn't care less if you kill yourself on further false assumptions that you make - except of course if it happens when you are piloting a planeload of 200-300 passengers over the rocky mountains or the north atlantic