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This seems to be a hot topic now, and i thought i would try to start an intelligent conversation about why drugs should be leagal. Now if you cant keep from expressing ignorant opinions like "yeah man i just wanna get high" then please dont post.
Alright first I'll start with a history lesson. You my notice that my topic is titles "Relegalization" no leagalization. This is because if we look back into our nations past we find that there was a time that there were no restrictions on any substance. So why did they impliment laws in the first place? Well many beleive it came about almost as a racist act because certain races liked to use marajana rather than drink. So to take something away from them laws were implimented against it. Others think it was implimented by the same groups who got prohibition started (the ones who think the government has the right to force other peoples morals upon the masses).
this leads me to the next argument that people bring up that "crime will rise if we legalize drugs". Well if you again look to the past. When prohibition started what happened? did crime go down as a result of making a substance illeagal? No, rather the opposite happened. Common people who would otherwise not break the law went to speak easy's to get a drink and were no considered to be breaking the law. These people could now be placed under arrest and put in prison. This lead to some crowding of prisons and required more personel in them to keep it operating properly. Not only did this happen but this is when we saw the rise of organized crime. Today these instances are very similar to the "drug problem". Our prisons are overrun with people who use drugs just as the prisons were full of people who drank. Today organized crime no longer has a prophit to distribute alcohol but drugs have filled the void. also after prohibition was lifted crime went down not up. i beleive this would be the case with drugs as well.
The other thing people think would happen if drugs were leagalized is that everyone would go out start doing coke and heroine. its just sad to think people beleive this. I personally dont know anyone who would go do coke or heroine... ever. It has nothing to do with laws saying they cant its because they know for their own health they shouldt. Now there would probably be a rush for people on marajana and lower level drugs but i think they would most likely be the people who already do it and people who drink and smoke cigs. People also think that kids would all start doing drugs... again they are blind if they think they dont already have access to them however there would obviously be a "drugging" age just like there is a drinking age now and i dont think there would be much if any increase in usage in kids/teens.
Lastly it could actually lower your taxes quite a bit if it were relegalized. for starters there would be no more DEA, this would get rid of billions of dollars in taxes. Also since alcohol is taxed drugs too could be taxed which would add even more revenue for our government and only those who use would be paying the tax on it.
Now you are probably thinking i am a pothead or whatever but quite the contrary i hate pot. i did it once and all i did was get stupid and have cotton mouth. I dont however think that just because i like it that nobody should have the right to do it.
To the mods: If this is out of line or you dont beleive that our site can handle this topic please go ahead and close it and i'll delete my entire post.
Alright first I'll start with a history lesson. You my notice that my topic is titles "Relegalization" no leagalization. This is because if we look back into our nations past we find that there was a time that there were no restrictions on any substance. So why did they impliment laws in the first place? Well many beleive it came about almost as a racist act because certain races liked to use marajana rather than drink. So to take something away from them laws were implimented against it. Others think it was implimented by the same groups who got prohibition started (the ones who think the government has the right to force other peoples morals upon the masses).
this leads me to the next argument that people bring up that "crime will rise if we legalize drugs". Well if you again look to the past. When prohibition started what happened? did crime go down as a result of making a substance illeagal? No, rather the opposite happened. Common people who would otherwise not break the law went to speak easy's to get a drink and were no considered to be breaking the law. These people could now be placed under arrest and put in prison. This lead to some crowding of prisons and required more personel in them to keep it operating properly. Not only did this happen but this is when we saw the rise of organized crime. Today these instances are very similar to the "drug problem". Our prisons are overrun with people who use drugs just as the prisons were full of people who drank. Today organized crime no longer has a prophit to distribute alcohol but drugs have filled the void. also after prohibition was lifted crime went down not up. i beleive this would be the case with drugs as well.
The other thing people think would happen if drugs were leagalized is that everyone would go out start doing coke and heroine. its just sad to think people beleive this. I personally dont know anyone who would go do coke or heroine... ever. It has nothing to do with laws saying they cant its because they know for their own health they shouldt. Now there would probably be a rush for people on marajana and lower level drugs but i think they would most likely be the people who already do it and people who drink and smoke cigs. People also think that kids would all start doing drugs... again they are blind if they think they dont already have access to them however there would obviously be a "drugging" age just like there is a drinking age now and i dont think there would be much if any increase in usage in kids/teens.
Lastly it could actually lower your taxes quite a bit if it were relegalized. for starters there would be no more DEA, this would get rid of billions of dollars in taxes. Also since alcohol is taxed drugs too could be taxed which would add even more revenue for our government and only those who use would be paying the tax on it.
Now you are probably thinking i am a pothead or whatever but quite the contrary i hate pot. i did it once and all i did was get stupid and have cotton mouth. I dont however think that just because i like it that nobody should have the right to do it.
To the mods: If this is out of line or you dont beleive that our site can handle this topic please go ahead and close it and i'll delete my entire post.
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