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Drug Policy

Poll: Which of the following do you (Check all that apply)
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Ban all psychoactive compounds inclusing Tobacco and Alcahol
1.18%
 1 1.18%
Alcahol should have warning labels like Tobacco
8.24%
 7 8.24%
Keep current policy (Everything illegal except Tobacco and Alcahol)
1.18%
 1 1.18%
Allow Medical Marijuana (When prescribed by qualified people)
12.94%
 11 12.94%
Allow recreational marijuana (with limited growing rights)
12.94%
 11 12.94%
Allow "legal highs" (Compounds that we do not know the structure, how they work, but people get a high off them)
3.53%
 3 3.53%
Allow Khat (Somalian/ Ethiopian plant that has Euphoric properties, not harmful says UN)
8.24%
 7 8.24%
Allow sedatives (Ket, Esctasy)
3.53%
 3 3.53%
Allow 'shrooms and other halucinogens
4.71%
 4 4.71%
Allow Cocaine
4.71%
 4 4.71%
Allow Heroine
3.53%
 3 3.53%
Allow all drugs, No barriers
10.59%
 9 10.59%
Ban tobacco
2.35%
 2 2.35%
Minimum age should be 16
1.18%
 1 1.18%
Minimum age should be 18
12.94%
 11 12.94%
Minimum age should be 21 (or higher)
8.24%
 7 8.24%
Total 85 vote(s) 100%
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Drug Policy
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RE: Drug Policy
July 12, 2015 at 7:46 pm
(July 12, 2015 at 7:12 pm)Dystopia Wrote: But people are not really addicted to (most people anyway) getting cars all the time or electricians unless the power is out. People do get addicted to drugs, and they do anything (even hurting others) to get a tiny piece of it. I don't see how's comparable to bathub gin, it sounds like something a comedian would say.

Same argument can be made for gambling but that's still legal. Bottom line is the reason for legalisation isn't anything to do with how addicting something is. It's about personal choice. That's something you're not really paying attention to.

Quote:Maybe I'm a person who has consumed drugs for X time and I'm really used to this dealer - Maybe that person is a known acquaintance, or friend (from my experience most young people smoking weed do this), so why bother paying more for the government's product? Or do you honestly think the government would make a cheaper price than street dealers?~

What does it even matter? How is any of this relevant in the slightest?

You're obsessed with this notion that everyone will go for the cheaper alternative regardless of the risks and somehow using it as an argument against legalisation. I don't even know where you're going with it to be honest. Are you trying to say people wouldn't care about regulation? They wouldn't care about making the product they use safer and more reliable? That's demonstrably false. And it's not an argument against legalisation anyway.

Quote:Answering to the other part - Well marijuana is not as addicting as people make it so it does not apply, and I'm not arguing against legalization of marijuana specifically. I'm talking about heavy drugs.  I haven't smoked weed in a while, but when I did I would be fine without smoking it if I had no money to buy more weed - I didn't get withdrawal symptoms, I just missed the high. I think if I was addicted to heroin my reaction would have been different

So: I didn't get addicted so nobody does.

C'mon man. What am I even wasting my time responding for if this is the best reasoning you've got.
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Drug Policy

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Drug Policy - by TheMonster - July 12, 2015 at 5:06 am
RE: Drug Policy - by ignoramus - July 12, 2015 at 5:09 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Longhorn - July 12, 2015 at 5:09 am
RE: Drug Policy - by TheMonster - July 12, 2015 at 5:17 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 12, 2015 at 8:14 am
RE: Drug Policy - by paulpablo - July 12, 2015 at 8:42 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Pyrrho - July 12, 2015 at 3:38 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by MTL - July 12, 2015 at 9:07 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Nope - July 12, 2015 at 10:16 am
Drug Policy - by KUSA - July 12, 2015 at 10:21 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Little lunch - July 12, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Nope - July 12, 2015 at 11:13 am
Drug Policy - by KUSA - July 12, 2015 at 11:01 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Little lunch - July 12, 2015 at 11:09 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Nope - July 12, 2015 at 11:19 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Minimalist - July 12, 2015 at 11:19 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 12, 2015 at 3:41 pm
Drug Policy - by KUSA - July 12, 2015 at 3:51 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 12, 2015 at 3:54 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 12, 2015 at 6:04 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Salacious B. Crumb - July 12, 2015 at 3:51 pm
Drug Policy - by KUSA - July 12, 2015 at 4:21 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 12, 2015 at 6:11 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 12, 2015 at 7:08 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Iroscato - July 12, 2015 at 6:16 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 12, 2015 at 6:18 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Iroscato - July 12, 2015 at 6:31 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Pyrrho - July 12, 2015 at 6:50 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by IATIA - July 12, 2015 at 6:39 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 12, 2015 at 6:58 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 12, 2015 at 7:12 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by IATIA - July 12, 2015 at 7:37 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 12, 2015 at 7:12 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 12, 2015 at 7:46 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 12, 2015 at 10:08 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 13, 2015 at 5:01 am
RE: Drug Policy - by BrokenQuill92 - July 12, 2015 at 7:39 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by IATIA - July 12, 2015 at 7:52 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Regina - July 12, 2015 at 7:56 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by IATIA - July 12, 2015 at 8:28 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Pyrrho - July 12, 2015 at 9:53 pm
RE: Drug Policy - by Excited Penguin - July 13, 2015 at 5:13 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 13, 2015 at 5:25 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Excited Penguin - July 13, 2015 at 5:28 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 13, 2015 at 5:30 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Excited Penguin - July 13, 2015 at 5:36 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 13, 2015 at 5:39 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Excited Penguin - July 13, 2015 at 5:52 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 13, 2015 at 6:00 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Fidel_Castronaut - July 13, 2015 at 6:16 am
RE: Drug Policy - by brewer - July 13, 2015 at 8:05 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 13, 2015 at 8:16 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 13, 2015 at 8:24 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 13, 2015 at 8:51 am
RE: Drug Policy - by The Grand Nudger - July 13, 2015 at 8:06 am
RE: Drug Policy - by The Grand Nudger - July 13, 2015 at 8:29 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 13, 2015 at 8:33 am
RE: Drug Policy - by The Grand Nudger - July 13, 2015 at 8:41 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Dystopia - July 13, 2015 at 8:53 am
RE: Drug Policy - by Napoléon - July 13, 2015 at 9:17 am
RE: Drug Policy - by dyresand - July 14, 2015 at 3:40 pm

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