| Jackson50 said: I fail to see how ending drug prohibition will increase the number of burnouts. Is that not the problem we already have? If people want to use and abuse drugs, they are going to use and abuse drugs. I would implore you to watch the video I previously posted. |
Humor me a moment and entertain this hypothetical theory: What if drugs were not available. Not around anywhere? Would people desperately go out of their way to find them? Let's say that drug dealers were made as "kill on sight" targets for police, and wiped out all the dealers and terrified people to even take such a risk. How far would you go to find a place to buy weed, shroom,s coke, etc? Would it be worth traveling for hours just to get a stack of goods of questionable quality? Or would you just save up your money and take a trip to someplace like Amsterdam, get your freak on, and then come home satisfied?
Legalization promotes availability. Availability promotes advertising, and advertising brings customers. For as many people who know how to find drugs, how many people are out there that might be willing or curious to try drugs, but just didn't want to go to a shady back alley to buy them, or more simply - didn't even know where or how to go about getting them? If its legal, it can be peddled even out of a store.
But I will entertain your thought on legalization. What age do you make the legal age of purchase/use? 21 like alcohol? or 18 like tobacco?
As I discuss it more, I tend to think that maybe full, outright legalization is actually a great solution, for ALL drugs, no matter how dangerous/lethal. Leave it readily accessible to teenagers, and let them have a blast. A good chunk might die, but it will thin out the population. Survival of the fittest/smartest. Makes sense to me. Hmm, you've actually opened my eyes on the matter on a whole new direction - not drugs as the bane of society, but as a filter for humanity. We could thin out the kids who had bad parenting, the easily impressionable, the followers. Hmmm...thats not such a bad idea at all.
