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Originally Posted by RageCash-Ben
I understand where you are coming from Robbie. I am not one for doing everything the government tells me by any stretch. I see alcohol and cigs as far more harmful than pot for example. I think pot should be legalized and you are right there is nothing wrong with blowing a doobie to relax. However I happen to think that for drugs like heroin and cocaine it would be a fucking disaster to legalize them. For those drugs what starts out as 'fun' can quickly turn into a complete nightmare.
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But like I was saying earlier...cocaine was totally legal until the 1920's. The govt. started putting their nose into people's personal lives. Most famous failure was Prohibition when they made alcohol illegal.
That url I put up a little earlier was real interesting about heroin. Turns out it was Bayer that created it! And they sold it and marketed it for a few years as well. I didn't know that. I remember hearing a radio interview with the actor that played Grandpa Munster on the t.v. show and he was a big proponent of making drugs legal.
In that interview he claimed that he used to go to the drugstore as a young boy and buy heroin over the counter for his grandmother. I didn't believe it then. But I do now. I even googled this up:
And yes, it contained REAL heroin. Bayer was making up tons of it a year and selling it all around the world.
Anyway, point is...all these things were legal at one time or another. Heroin is a little extreme, but it is as readily available now as it ever was. The laws didn't change people's desires. They only created a huge crime problem with drug dealers.
Put the shit back on the shelf at the local drug store and that wouldn't be the case anymore. Would there be more drug addicts? Maybe. Hell most definitely if it's that good.
But so what? I like to live my life free to make my own choices (including the choice of the loaded shotgun beside my bed and the two big german shepards in the yard just in case someone does decide to be stupid and break in my house lol )
I guess it's a conundrum. But I just can't stand giving my personal freedoms away to the govt. to make decisions for me. You know what I mean.