America's War on Drugs

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Now to alcohol is a drug or not issue.

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If you would have compared it to cigarettes, I'd said, yeah, okay.
It does share the same social aspects to a degree, and is harmful to society as a whole, while providing no benefits.

Dude you have never got completely rat arsed have you? You clearly don't know how powerful of an effect alcohol can have. Sipping on a glass of wine is ofcourse not the same as a joint of weed. Going out and getting absolutely smashed is on a whole different level to having a joint of weed though.

"It being classified as a "drug" doesn't mean it's the same as ilicit drugs."

How much evidence to the contrary does one have to direct you to in order for you to accept that what you're saying is complete bollocks.

The truth is, what constitutes drugs as illegal to many countries around the world has nothing to do with how dangerous a drug it is.



Take a look at this graph.

Notice how alcohol scores higher on the harm rating than not only marijuana (cannabis), but LSD, ecstasy, tobacco, amphetamines and ketamines.


I have to also pick out this from your response earlier:
"This is why illicit drugs should never be made legal for sale and production, especially in places like the US."

All of the arguments you made before saying that, can be applied (and were) to whatever drug you choose. Alcohol, weed, tobacco, even things like gambling as you mentioned.

The trouble is, there is no consistency with the law.

Some of these things are outlawed yet others are completely legal, despite some of them clearly being more dangerous than others.

Now if your stand point is that all drugs should be outlawed because all drugs are dangerous, I can accept that. If that's the case Mehmet you should be taking equal case with not just weed but alcohol. You don't seem to be doing that here.

My position however is that all drugs should be legal because we should have the freedom to put into our body what we want, no matter how stupid that thing you want to put into your body is. I specifically take issue, with the governments of not just my country but many around the world, who see fit to pick out the drugs which provide THEM with the most benefits (ie money), and chastise us for using drugs which THEY don't approve of.