BulletWounD
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I see, so when a drug addict robs a house to support his habit, there are no victims. When a drug addict spends a family’s life savings on his habit, there are no victims. When a drug cartel trying to control the market on drugs murders police to prevent discovery, there are no victims. When a drug addict drives his vehicle into oncoming traffic, there are no victims.
When a person robs another for any reason, he has committed a crime. When a person spends his life savings on his habit, he is morally bankrupt. When a group of individuals attempts to control the market of anything through violence and murder they have committed a crime. When a person drives his vehicle into oncoming traffic he is criminally negligent. And to keep this on topic, when a gun owner uses his "assault weapon" to kill a police officer he has committed a crime. All of these violations are already covered under criminal statutes.
The notion that legalizing heroine and cocaine will lead to less crime is about as hysterically absurd as suggesting that using heroine or cocaine only harms one's self.
You're neglecting the fact that one can use drugs responsibly just as they can responsibly own a gun and use alcohol responsibly. Why do conservatives ditch the fundamental concept of personal responsibility as soon as the issue is drugs? To me, this shows the lack of guiding principles in the "conservative" movement.
Does anyone with a brain here think that legalizing these drugs will make them any more obtainable and that suddenly drug cartels will disappear?
Yes.
Does anyone here think that people stoned out of their minds wont attempt to drive their cars?
1. They already do.
2. The impairment caused by marijuana upon one's ability to drive is debatable.
2. It's already addressed by criminal and civil law.
Does anyone here think that just because the Government now taxes these substances they are no longer terribly harmful to society as a whole?
The war on drugs is terribly harmful to society.
1. It's a waste of lives.
2. It's terribly expensive.
3. It results in the imprisonment of otherwise law abiding people who are often turned into hardened criminals.
4. A federal ban on possession is the result of an egregious misinterpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause which gives the government the power to regulate essentially anything.
5. It's arguably a breach of the ninth and tenth amendments.
I can come up with more too, but this topic is getting derailed enough. I would say it's pertinent as the same arguments that are made against the possession of drugs are often made against the possession of guns ("it's harmful to society")
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