Drug Policy

[KUSA]

But we should protect children from themselves.
When do most drug users start?

I also voted 21 and over. Of course children need to be protected from themselves but I draw the line when it comes to consenting adults.

[Little lunch]

There's a legal age for alcohol.
Do you know anybody that drinks alcohol and didn't start before that age?

[Nope]

But we should protect children from themselves.
When do most drug users start?

Children can't consent to drugs or sex with an adult because their brains have not developed enough to understand the ramifications of their choices.

[Minimalist]

Legalize everything.  The Drug War is over.  We have lost.  Admit it and move on.

[Nope]

There's a legal age for alcohol.
Do you know anybody that drinks alcohol and didn't start before that age?

What does this have to do with the legalization of drugs?

In the US, we had drug prevention programs and a heavy push on just say no. Guess what? Kids still did drugs but they snuck around to do it. We had police do a sweep through the high schools in my area and arrest several kids. Imagine how those arrest messed up those kids lives. That was in the 80's. The fact that drugs were illegal didn't keep kids from risking their future just so they could get high.

If drugs were legal, it would be easier to make certain that vulnerable individuals received help without shame. Anyone who sold to an underage individual could get arrested or fined heavily just like we do with with alcohol now.

[Pyrrho]

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The best thing I can think of is to make everything legal, have extreme health warnings on all drugs relative to what the dangers are, and have an age restriction of no one under 16 17 or 18.

I would probably select different ages for different drugs, but I basically agree with you on this.

The poll options are not good for this, as "Allow all drugs, No barriers" does not accurately describe that choice, as an age barrier is a barrier, and so is the requirement for accurate warning labels, as it is a barrier to someone just selling unregulated products out of their homes.

[Dystopia]

Essentially I voted to legalize marijuana for both medical and recreation reasons, to continue to permit alcohol and tobacco, and minimum age 18 as it is the age of adulthood so it makes sense. I'm not sure about anything else as I don't know some of those drugs and the case is complicated. I'm not a fan of the "I do what I want with my body" - There are behaviors so self-destructive that the government should simply actively try to erase it. I still don't know. But I don't support putting people in jail for simple consumption, punish dealers harder not consumers

[KUSA]

I think it would be cheaper to fund public assistance for people with drug problems than what this war on drugs costs.

[Salacious B. Crumb]

I'd say legalize them all and tax them. I don't feel the government has a right to tell you what you can and can't put into your body. Make a minimum age of purchase where these drugs are authorized to distribute. If the government made meth legal, I don't see everyone going out of their way to become meth-heads because it's legal all of the sudden. I think it's hypocritical when people oppose weed, and have nothing to say about alcohol. If I had to choose one to ban, I'd ban alcohol and make weed illegal ..But legalize them all. States have made weed legal, and there aren't potheads roaming the streets the way they do in The Walking Dead, so people should relax.

[Dystopia]

I think it would be cheaper to fund public assistance for people with drug problems than what this war on drugs costs.

I don't support wars on drugs - But I live in Europe, so I've never really seen that. There's a difference between war on drugs and just plainly legalize everything. At the least, I see no reason drug users would prefer the government's drugs to their usual everyday dealer - Why should they? If I did drugs and bought them from some dealer, I wouldn't start buying them to the government, specially with the damn taxes.