(November 5, 2010 at 7:40 am)ib.me.ub Wrote: Really though, how can flooding society with drugs be good thing.
Society is already "flooded" with drugs. All the people who want to take them, do so already. All legalising would do is take the power and money out of dealers hands and put it back in to the governments, they could then use the funds to deal with the issues we already have due to drugs, despite currently having none of the benefits. As I agree with you, some drugs can be dangerous to the individual and the wider population, LSD not being one of them, as it is one of the least habit forming and least damaging substances available yet seen as terrible by ill informed, misdirected people.
Countries where drugs laws and attitudes have changed to a more accepting stance, Portugal and Holland being the notable two, user rates have actually fallen. Deaths have actually fallen and prison spaces are freed up due to less dealers wasting space for providing a substance to a generally willing and able user.
So legalising could, cut user rates, generate tax revenue, get rid of dealers, free up space in prisons for crimes where there actually is a victim and cut deaths from drugs.
I have followed and been involved in the movement for transforming the drug policy in the UK for a while and, I agree that with some substances we should be a bit more careful in our approach to legalising but I see no negatives for changing the law for the VAST majority of substances that are currently illegal. Weed, MDMA, Ecstasy, LSD are just a few of the substances that are far less harmful than alcohol and yet people are criminalised for choosing to take them instead of paying over the odds, destroying their livers and causing trouble in town centres every weekend.
Current drug policy CLEARLY dosen't work. I can't see the negatives on changing something that's so broken.
