RE: Drug Policy
July 12, 2015 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2015 at 7:59 pm by Regina.)
Allow all drugs, no barriers - It's on you. My opinion on using them is irrelevant, if you want them, have them. I think having less of a stigma around them and having serious conversations about drug use will encourage safer usage anyway. Making anything a taboo only makes people (read: teenagers) more interested in it because "hehehe, I'm doing something rebellious". That's why countries with the best sex education have the lowest teen pregnancy and STD rates.
Minimum age should be 18 - I chose this because that's the age for alcohol consumption in the UK where I live (and most countries, I believe), and I think the age for drugs should be whatever the age for drinking is. Teenagers will still do it, but if there's a law for alcohol I think it should be there for drugs too.
Alcohol should have warning labels like Tobacco - Alcohol is not as dangerous as tobacco, but there are health affects to binge drinking and lots of alcohol can cause serious accidents. I think there should be warnings like "know your limits" on bottles and cans etc.
Minimum age should be 18 - I chose this because that's the age for alcohol consumption in the UK where I live (and most countries, I believe), and I think the age for drugs should be whatever the age for drinking is. Teenagers will still do it, but if there's a law for alcohol I think it should be there for drugs too.
Alcohol should have warning labels like Tobacco - Alcohol is not as dangerous as tobacco, but there are health affects to binge drinking and lots of alcohol can cause serious accidents. I think there should be warnings like "know your limits" on bottles and cans etc.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
