RE: Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?
September 20, 2014 at 7:52 pm
I think marijuana/weed should be legal and available, like alcohol and cigarettes (and cigars, all kind of tobacco products) - Because of the reasons you mentioned - I see it as a personal choice - If it's moral or not, that's up to the concrete individual, one could do drugs and believe it is immoral.
I'm against legalization of hard drugs by the reasons you listed and some more, but I'm also against sending addicts to jail - The act of consumption per se is not harmful to anyone else - We should put dealers in jail instead and incentive people to not to heavy dangerous and extremely addicting drugs. Anyone who thinks all drugs should be legal never had to dealt with a homeless junkie begging for money - In fact if all heavy drugs were legal, they would be so expensive because of taxes that traffic would continue. Not that heavy drugs are the only ones doing this, lots of homeless people like asking me for cigs and it's extremely annoying.
I think mandatory rehab is a fair sentence, despite my skepticism towards forced, coercive rehabilitation procedures, but I don't see any more solutions for now.
Possession shouldn't be illegal either, IMO, as long as it's not enough to legally assume you're selling.
Drugs are all of those 3 aspects you mentioned, it depends on the case, and each case is a case.
I'm against legalization of hard drugs by the reasons you listed and some more, but I'm also against sending addicts to jail - The act of consumption per se is not harmful to anyone else - We should put dealers in jail instead and incentive people to not to heavy dangerous and extremely addicting drugs. Anyone who thinks all drugs should be legal never had to dealt with a homeless junkie begging for money - In fact if all heavy drugs were legal, they would be so expensive because of taxes that traffic would continue. Not that heavy drugs are the only ones doing this, lots of homeless people like asking me for cigs and it's extremely annoying.
I think mandatory rehab is a fair sentence, despite my skepticism towards forced, coercive rehabilitation procedures, but I don't see any more solutions for now.
Possession shouldn't be illegal either, IMO, as long as it's not enough to legally assume you're selling.
Drugs are all of those 3 aspects you mentioned, it depends on the case, and each case is a case.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
