Should the US legalize drugs?

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akuma587 said:
I don't understand why people who complain about big government are the first one's who are willing to surrender everyone else's right to privacy to the government. Big Brother government is THE WORST type of big government there is. At least "Big Government" as he is so often called helps people out rather than going on a witch hunt after them.

Also - Just because the government labels something as something (alcohol as a non-hard drug) does not make it true. The FDA maintains that marijuana is a dangerous drug. Yet they say that alcohol is not when alcohol related crime and fatalities are SIGNIFICANTLY higher by any stretch of the imagination?

Plus alcohol is more physically addictive if you look at any scientific study. You are wrong, bardciverse, when you say that alcohol does not have addictive qualities. Alcoholics go through withdrawal when they don't have alcohol. Marijuana does not cause withdrawal and is not physically addictive.

One of the reasons for this is because marijuana stays in your body for so long. It can take a month or longer for marijuana to leave your body, so your body doesn't have a "crash" like it does with other drugs. Your body never develops a dependence on it because you are weaned off it slowly. It absorbs into your fat cells and exits your body over a long period of time.

Marijuana is psychologically addictive, but so is television, Cheetohs, masturbation, or rubbing yourself with a yellow balloon. Anything can be psychologically addictive.

 

Not everyone who dislikes big government supports government intervention to prevent drug usage ...

Beyond that, the insane level or partisanship in our political system forces people to take a lot of inconsistent positions on a lot of issues. Many people (like myself) see the war on drugs and gun control to be fairly similar issues, and think that it is amazing that so many people will argue that making one illegal won't prevent people from having access to it while promoting more (and more strict) laws on the other.