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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
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.
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Don't get me wrong, drugs like heroin and meth are terrible and people can become addicted to them in a heartbeat. I don't want to see them for sale in stores or in vending machines etc. What I would like to see is a change like they made in Portugal where it is still illegal to sell drugs, but not to use or posses them. If you get caught with drugs, instead of going to jail they put you in rehab. The idea is that they greatly reduce the number of users. With fewer users there will be less demand and by default less violence and other issues that come with it. It is working there.
I would just like to see us try something new. The 50+ year war on drugs we have fought seems to have gotten us nowhere.
I would also like to see us invest in our inner cities and work with the groups of people who are most likely to sell drugs in hopes we can convince them to get an education and show them there are other ways to make money and have a good life. It's not going to be easy, but I fear things will only continue to get worse. Drugs are only getting more and more potent and more and more dangerous.