Should NATO deploy troops in Mexico?

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Soleron said:

TheLivingShadow said:

...Hmmm...I've been thinking about this...maybe the solution is to legalize drugs?

I don't get why they're illegal in the first place. Sure, they're not good for the people who consume them, but frankly cigarretes and alcohol (in large amounts) aren't either but they are legal. Think about it. What wrong does DRUGS do to society as a whole? Alcohol is legal but not everyone's drunk. Smoking is legal but not everyone is addicted to it. Why are drugs so special?

Even if you think drugs are reall bad things for people, they should be legal because they don't harm people other than the consumers. If they want to get high, it's their choice. If they want to lose their life on a drug, let them be. Banning drugs just makes it look like a desirable thing to do by the youngsters, provokes people to sell them illegally and causes the state to invest in a "war" they should not be making in the first place.

It is possible to consume alcohol at quantities with no health consequences and no serious psychological impact.

This isn't possible with most of the banned drugs, and indeed tobacco. The safe level is zero, there is no possible benefit to the user, and the cost to society in missed work hours, behaviour under the influence of drugs and healthcare (especially in socialised-heathcare countries) is very large.

They are harming many other people than the consumer, and there is no level of drug-taking that doesn't.

Tobacco should be classed with the most serious drugs we have based on the health risk. Only reason it isn't is lack of political will.

That's a problem with socialized healthcare and thinking.  Not Drugs.

Peoples rights to do what they want to their own body are being infringed opon by the state because people are tied together too much due to healthcare.  Of course, the US doesn't even really have this excuse.

Using drugs caosts missed hours and healtcare, so does eating fast food.  Should that be illegal?  So does watching tv.  So does, almost everything that isn't "working".   The state has no "right" to force people to work or make good choices or any number of other things.

Way to solve the problem?  Penalize people who use drugs in socialized medicine.  Charge them more or cover less.