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Originally Posted by Robbie
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.
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I will agree with you that when it comes to most adults. People who haven't already tried heroin or meth won't then just go out and try it. sure, there might be a few, but most of them won't.
That said I think there are a lot of kids out there who could end up at a party and they might try it. Sure, that could still happen today, but if it were legal it would be a lot easier to get. So I fear that you could end up with a bunch of kids who try it just to make their friends think they are cool and end up in a bad place.
When it comes to meth I have to fully agree with you. Meth users are the lowest of the low and chances are these are people who, if there were no meth, would probably be hopelessly addicted to something else.
Meth is such an ugly drug that I think making it legal could start us down a pretty ugly road. I am normally not a person who thinks the government should control much of anything. I have always felt that if I want to do something and it doesn't hurt anyone but me then the government should have no say in it. But I think there are a few situations where the potential of something is so ugly that it might be best for everyone if it stay illegal.