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Originally Posted by kane
There are places where they have experimented with decriminalizing and focusing more on rehab and prevention than law enforcement and it has worked for them.
The war on drugs has been a failure. Pretty much anyone who wants heroin, meth or coke can get it without a whole lot of difficulty. It's time to try something different. Legalize, regulate, educate, and rehabilitate. The drug problem in this country is a medical issue, not a criminal issue. We need to treat it as such.
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Well, to be perfectly honest, i do respect you and i do kinda agree with the above. However, i also don't believe that making highly addictive drugs widely available is going to help anything.
Though this is a very long discussion in how the brain works, the "for or against" with drugs is a moral question in peoples brains for most and a question of reason for some. You won't win the debate with reason because the brain is using different areas to process each... There won't be agreement on legalizing meth, heroin etc. anymore than there will be agreement on whether or not abortion is or isn't ok.
Drugs are illegal all over the planet for this reason and viewed the same way in almost any culture... it's fundamental human neurobiology.