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Drug Legalization

Should drugs be legalized?


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That "study" is obviously bunk.

Not based on science.

Even the idiots at your link were too ****ing embarrassed to publish the methodology.
lolwhut? Its based on a paper published by the Lancet, one of the leading medical research think tanks in the world.
Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis : The Lancet
And it was all over the news:

Alcohol more dangerous than heroin, study finds - Health - Addictions | NBC News
DailyTech - Study: Alcohol is Deadliest Drug, More Dangerous Than Heroin
 
lolwhut? Its based on a paper published by the Lancet, one of the leading medical research think tanks in the world.
:lamo I don't give a **** how many links you can find to the same flawed garbage.

It's still nothing but junk science. Anyone who is not an idiot can clearly see that.
 
:lamo I don't give a **** how many links you can find to the same flawed garbage.

It's still nothing but junk science. Anyone who is not an idiot can clearly see that.
So its flawed science because... you say so? :doh
 
Nah, I just want to tax the hell out of pot, I would never EVER want to legalize cocaine (it says legalize all drugs for an option which is dumb as **** in my opinion) or any other more dangerous substance, pot is sufficient enough. Let's give it a 30% tax on its total price. something insane so that we can profit like thieves :D
:lol:

Seems like any mention of super high tax rates is always enough to get all the left-wingers' collective panties wet.
 
:lol:

Seems like any mention of super high tax rates is always enough to get all the left-wingers' collective panties wet.

Pfft with something like drugs? Hell yeah we should tax it insanely because they're terrible. It's what we're doing with cigarettes and no one seems to be complaining.
 
So here's what the drug war has cost us so far:

- Largest prison population in the world.

- Estimates that the Drug War has cost taxpayers from $1 Trillion so far (or around $100 Billion a year) and this is a conservative estimate.

- Cops have been militarized: every city and government agency (including the Dept of Education) now has a SWAT team equipped with military weapons and vehicles.

- Lots of innocent people have been killed (form drug gang shootouts to cops mistaking raiding the wrong house)

- Arrests and incarceration of large number of minorities (the black population has been absolutely devastated by arrests and busts)

- Strengthened organized crime (drug cartels control huge swaths of territory in Latin America) and caused massacres/high murder rates in other countries.

It only took 13 years for the older generation of politicians to repeal Prohibition when they realized that it wasnt working. Why are a huge number of politicians now still for the war even though its not working?

Because of very similar reasons why some of them want to get rid of guns.
 
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