Let's End Drug Prohibition!
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I would resist lowering the drinking age (or a hypothetical "drug age", for lack of a better term) below 21, simply because the brain, in most people, isn't done developing untill that age.
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Originally posted by Storymark:
I would resist lowering the drinking age (or a hypothetical "drug age", for lack of a better term) below 21, simply because the brain, in most people, isn't done developing untill that age.
And indeed that has been a valid arguement debating the converse. I know that within the last 2 years, science has shown that the human brain finishes it's development at 25. Wow 25? It's nevertheless true. The final thing to develop is the human brain's ability to assess risk. And that indeed plays right into the dangers of underage drinking.
So the debate continues on. I see both sides of this one and tenatavely fall to the side of lowering the age limit. I feel this way because of the proven ill's of the quasi-prohibition on campuses coupled with the drinking laws of european countries, like Germany, where kids as young as 14 can get served and society gets along fine. They also get to drive as fast as they want on rural stretches of the autobahn. I lived there for a summer at age 16 and well remember how things were just generally, "cooler" than here in the good-ole USA.
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"I saw this becasue of the proven ill's of the quasi-prohibition on campuses coupled with the drinking laws of european countries, like Germany, where kids as young as 14 can get served and society gets along fine."
It's a myth. The US, France and Germany define 'alcoholism' differently. When you look at actual time lost from work, alcohol-induced liver disease and other quantifiable items, indeed, countries with a more 'liberal' attitude to alcohol show more negative affects.
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This is weird - I would have thought that having legalized prostitution and legally tolerating low-level drug use and sales, there would be no organized crime involved. I wish they had explained it more:
Amsterdam to clamp down on sex shops, brothels, dope cafes
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Amsterdam unveiled plans Saturday to close brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafes in its ancient city center as part of a major effort to drive organized crime out of the tourist haven.
The city is targeting businesses that "generate criminality," including gambling parlors, and the "coffee shops" where marijuana is sold openly. Also targeted are peep shows, massage parlors and souvenir shops used by drug dealers for money-laundering.
"I think that the new reality will be more in line with our image as a tolerant and crazy place, rather than a free zone for criminals," said Lodewijk Asscher, a city council member and one of the main proponents of the plan.
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Untill very recently I was a Substance Abuse Counselor at a local SA Rehab facility. We need to legalize all drugs, here is why.
Heroine, the illegal foreign import is dirty as hell, and clean heroine would never kill anyone unless there is an OD. Dirty heroin will cause all manner of lethal and non lethal problems. Plus we should all buy American.
Meth, Nobody knows what Mexican meth is made of. Technically it's usually not meth, but it is always corrosive and toxic to the human body.
Does anyone even do Coke still? Nobody presented to me as a coke addict in 7 years.
Ganj, It's one of the world's most harmless drug and should be part of every Doctor's bag of tricks.
Besides, the drugs arent't the problem. The 10% of the population that are genetically predisposed to addiction are going to find gambling, sex, drugs, internet, porn, or something else to get thier kicks on if we take away drugs completely. That 10% is going to be addictive. So the argument that legalizing will increase drug use based on increased availablity is poopoo. People will still become addicts in about the same amount. People will still spend the family paycheck in the same amount, etc....just fewer people will suffer and die from bad dope and a few nasty drug warlord fuckers who export bad dope will be put out of business.
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As an added plus, it might just stimulate our economy! A pot plant in every pot, and a meth lab on every block!
I'm only partly joking.
Mike
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Just to be devil's advocate for a few...
- Do we really want to be the Netherlands? People coming to this country because we have little or no drug laws?
- Assuming America can handle another temptation seems like pure fantasy, or maybe wishful thinking. We can barely handle SNACKING. We tend to do everything to excess, tvs, cars, meals are biggie-sized, why would drugs/addiciton be any different?
- as to your last post Rue - drug/crime distribution channels are in place now and they aren't going to just go away and give up that revenue stream.
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LEGALIZE DRUGS NOW....STOP THE RECESSION.
Really, if you legalized drugs, and then taxed the hell out of them, this country would be debt free in a year.
The drug war would be done, why would you deal with a shady character to score a quarter of pot you hope isn't laced with something when you can go down to walgreens and score some Maryjane and a big ass bag of chips in a one stop shopping moment.
I mean to have alcohal legal and pot illegal is just stupid. Have you ever seen a pissed off stoned person, I sure haven't. Drink too much....you DIE!!!Smoke too much Ganja...you go to sleep. Drink too much..you get 10 ft tall and bulletproof, Smoke too much..well dunken donuts better start the friers now.
I smoked pot for many years and had to quit it due to a job, never once have I been like..Man I have to HAVE a joint now!!
Really its amazing that in the land of the free if a plant grows in your backyard your going to jail.
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Quote:The legal drinking/drug age should be whatever the age required to be able to die for your country in wars is, effin' PERIOD.
Originally posted by Storymark:
I would resist lowering the drinking age (or a hypothetical "drug age", for lack of a better term) below 21, simply because the brain, in most people, isn't done developing untill that age.
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