Re: National Legalization of Marijuana
you dont like alcohol....get the laws changed
see if i give a damn
You're intentionally avoiding the point. If you cared about harmful "drugs" you WOULD give a big damn about a drug that kills 88,000 Americans per year. That you don't indicates it's not drugs you care about, but some drugs used by some people.
illegal drugs....pot, cocaine, heroin, pills, crack and many many more are harmful to our society, and to the individuals that consume them
i have seen it firsthand.....
I have too - lots of it. A charity I work with takes in the homeless, most are addicted to meth or opiates these days. It's devastating. But the War on Drugs didn't stop them from getting high or getting drugs. And the jail where I sometimes volunteer probably 80% according to our host are there as a direct result of drugs. So we put them in jail, they get a felony record, we spend $100,000 to house them for a few years, and what have we accomplished? Not a damn thing - if they were dealers, someone took their place the day they were arrested. If they were users and didn't get treated in jail, most will use again when they get out, if they aren't using while in prison, which is rampant.
I've also seen the ravages of alcohol and alcoholism, and in my part of the world alcohol is the main killer, drunk driving, diseases directly related to alcohol use, etc.
i will fight the legalization of all drugs, period
Except alcohol apparently.
you will fight for the other side.....we both seem to have our minds completely made up
and maybe you dont care if people take drugs or "get high".......i do
I don't care if they get high, same as the roughly
70% of Americans who drank in the past 12 months, and the 56% of Americans who drink and get high each month. I care a great deal about the $225 billion that alcohol
abuse cost us last year, AND the $190 billion attributed to illicit drug
abuse including prescription drugs.
I'm not convinced the War on Drugs does a thing to help the situation, and especially don't believe pot is any more dangerous than the drug alcohol. The charity takes in a lot of people with addictions, but pot isn't the main addiction of any of them. Alcohol plays a major or contributing role in almost all of them.