Obama Hates Medical Marijuana And He Doesn't Care What The States Think

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All drugs aren't the same, I don't want to give you the impression that that's what I think. But there is no group that tells you how to use drugs responsibly and for recreational use.

There are harm reduction programs going on now. Basically giving ppl needles and telling them how to use things as responsibly as possible. The reason there's no info on this is because of the say NO to drugs campaign. Where it's just no, no, no, and if you ask a common person who haven't known any drug users they wouldn't really know which drug causes what. They think it's all the same. I think information can be provided without legalization.

I'm not saying addiction is a conspiracy, just that the assertion that if you take a drug once you will most likely become an addict. The link I posted in one of my previous posts shows that is not true.

I didn't make this assertion. I know it's not true. I think i said you're in control until you are not. And when the second one happens depends on the individual and is genetic in basis. It also depends on the drug, some are more addictive than others.

Not a single country has legalized hard drugs. Do you not think that it's rather impractical to jump into this without knowing what to expect? Yea, thanks for bringing up portugal. They decriminalized and it worked for them. Decriminalization is not just to get rid of the illegal drug trade, it's because I think it's wrong to jail people who are sick. And it doesn't cause more drug use. Also, why is everyone so sure that once we legalize the very rich and powerful cartels will just up and disappear?

Yes not a single country has legalized hard drugs, and we still have very prevalent and powerful cartels. There are two parts to our current drug issues. One contains the problems that come from the consumer like addiction and incarceration. The second contains problems that come from the vendor's side such as violence used in competition, and unsafe products. Decriminalization alleviates the problems of the first, but legalization alleviates both.

The problem with unsafe things in drugs ... drugs are by themselves unsafe. These things do make it worse. i will concede that legalization seems to be the only way to solve this problem. But you cannot pretend as if the drugs themselves do not cause dependence, and that selling it is profiting from people's dependence. [/quote]