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Originally Posted by kane
There are a few drugs like Meth and Heroin that I could see keeping illegal because in the end they very well could end up hurting society as a whole. Meth is so addictive that most people are full blown addicts after using the drug just a couple of times so I could see how people could try it at a party just for fun and end up going down a really bad road.
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I was watching Bill Maher a couple of weeks ago and they were discussing drug legalization.
And Bill said something that made 1000% sense to me.
He asked everyone on the panel...If heroin were re-legalized tomorrow (yes it was legal and distributed by Bayer for a couple of decades over the counter) would you want to try it.
Every person on that panel said "no".
I'm not a big pot smoker. Did it as a teen of course, but found that "downers" aren't much fun to me.
I like to snort a few lines of good flake and have a few beers and shots. And I also love blotter acid.
But if heroin were legalized tomorrow? I can't see me ever wanting to try it for any reason at all.
I agree it's pretty damn addictive. But I'm not sure a lot of people would suddenly want to try it because it's legal.
It's human nature to do whatever you want to do, regardless of what the govt. says. If a person wants heroin...they get heroin. If people want meth...they get meth. Just because I think heroin wouldn't be any fun, and meth is just grotesque...doesn't mean they shouldn't have the rights as an adult to do as they damn well please.
Meth heads are already the worst drug problem that I've ever seen as far as what the addicts do (stealing, etc.)
But sometimes I think some people are just no damn good. They have addictive personalities and no matter what you do to try and help them...they are going to naturally end up in the gutter no matter what.
So again, I don't see a person who never wanted to try meth (which is easy to do right now) suddenly deciding to try it just because the govt. says it's legal now.
A lot of it is really just theory and conjecture by people who want to control our lives. That's my opinion on it. It's all about control, power, and money.