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All drugs should be legalized for recreational use

Pozessed said:
As far as I'm aware there is no law against ingesting anything. But there are various laws against being inebriated due to ingested substances. Taxes and prohibition are the governments way to try and influence/control the amount of any good or service on the market. I dont think I have to really try and prove that, it seems self evident to me.
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You should familiarize yourself, widen your horizons, by reading the Controlled Substances Act. That reading will show you how embarrassingly misinformed your post is.

Controlled Substances Act - Wikipedia
 
Thoreau72 said:
You should familiarize yourself, widen your horizons, by reading the Controlled Substances Act. That reading will show you how embarrassingly misinformed your post is.

Controlled Substances Act - Wikipedia
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Oh. Oops. Just slipped my mind to consider that. You'd be correct if you were pointing out that there are indeed laws against ingesting some things.

I think we'd both be in agreement to say the controlled substances act is unconstitutional.
 
Binary_Digit said:
What would happen if we legalized all drugs? To answer that, why not look at what happens when we prohibit drugs?

Alcohol prohibition was such a monumental disaster that they passed a Constitutional Amendment to repeal a Constitutional Amendment. It only took 10 years to see the contrast. Most of us would've never heard of Al Capone if it weren't for prohibition. An average back-alley cutthroat was able to become one of the richest and most powerful criminals in American history, all thanks to the black market created by prohibition. And that's just one example. The lesson was clear: No matter how dangerous a drug is, when you make it illegal you make it more dangerous, not less.

But for some reason we forgot that lesson and decided to prohibit all other drugs, as if somehow the results would be different. They haven't been. We just went from Al Capone to El Chapo (and Pablo Escobar).

So at the very least, legalization would remove all the negative effects caused by prohibition. That alone is a net positive.

Drug abuse and addiction are inherently medical problems, not criminal. Prohibition mischaracterizes the problem into something it's not. A properly-waged war on drugs would embrace treatment and prevention programs that are effective at combating the terrible nature of addiction and drug abuse. Instead, what we're waging today is more like a war on people. And we wonder why we aren't winning.

No matter how dangerous a drug is, when you make it illegal you make it more dangerous, not less.
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I agree. I don't do heroin. Not because it's illegal, but because I view it as a low-income and self-destructive. Making drugs illegal is like saying, "Don't be trash". People will be trash if they want to be, and they'll find a way to do it regardless of drug legality.
 
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