If Drugs Were Legal

[The Lawspeaker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDfcbBe7qKo
If Drugs Were Legal (BBC documentary)
If... is a series of BBC drama-documentaries broadcast on BBC Two from March to April 2004 and December 2004 to January 2005, each of which considers the potentially catastrophic political or social consequences that might arise from current trends in the United Kingdom. Using a drama with interviews from experts, then a discussion of the programme with a panel of experts from both sides of an argument. During the show a televote of opinion is cast.

[Aredhel]

I support drugs legalization because I think it will aid to decrease the crime rate. In many countries where drugs are illegals it has had and have a lot of issues related with organized crime, wars between drugs cartels in which people who aren't invoved in their bussiness die. This would be the main advantage of legalization in my opinion.

I think drug's consumption is a personal issue, parents, government or any organization can provide education in order to avoid its consumption but at the end you will decide if you want to try them or not, alcohol and tobacco are legal and some people decide not to try them, either they're illegal or not, if someone wants to get drugs he/she will go for them.

[Grumpy Cat]

If I could buy weed at the convenience store, I wouldn't be so grumpy.

[Jägerstaffel]

I honestly can't understand the point of allowing a lucrative black market to survive for so long for products that are generally less dangerous than legal products. Especially in the case of cannabis.

[The Lawspeaker]

I honestly can't understand the point of allowing a lucrative black market to survive for so long for products that are generally less dangerous than legal products. Especially in the case of cannabis.
I agree. I am all for legalisation.

[kabeiros]

Peter knows what he's talking about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ABc8ciT5QLs

[Onur]

There was an ecstasy craze in Turkey when i was a teenager in early 2000s. All the clubs was full with 100s of people with big eye pupils. It was kinda impossible to get away from it if you were in 20s.

Lawspeaker, i wonder how you guys cope with this stuff in Holland where it`s obviously more available in there.



I honestly can't understand the point of allowing a lucrative black market to survive for so long for products that are generally less dangerous than legal products. Especially in the case of cannabis.
It`s because cannabis is not a commercially profitable product unlike tobacco which requires certain processes to be easily consumable. If cannabis would be like tobacco, then it would be legal.

[The Lawspeaker]

Lawspeaker, i wonder how you guys cope with this stuff in Holland where it`s obviously more available in there.
Cannabis is not legal here but it's tolerated but only to an extant. I think you can have a couple of grams on your person. If you have more you will still get arrested. Hard drugs continues to be illegal.

[Stefan]

Cannabis is not legal here but it's tolerated but only to an extant. I think you can have a couple of grams on your person. If you have more you will still get arrested. Hard drugs continues to be illegal.

Decriminalization is a good start at least. Arresting marijuana smokers is a waste of money and resources.

[morski]

It`s because cannabis is not a commercially profitable product unlike tobacco which requires certain processes to be easily consumable. If cannabis would be like tobacco, then it would be legal.

:lol00002:

[Guapo]

If drugs were legal bulgarians would be funny.

[Siberian Cold Breeze]

No please..I still feel very down after watching that crocodile thing...:(

[Incal]

I despise drugs but I'm all for drug legalization: It would get rid of narcos and druglords. Plus, I despise the nanny state concept and any human has the right to destroy themselves if they want too. We would have less people too which would be great.

[Shkembe Chorba]

If drugs were legal bulgarians would be funny.
Elaborate.

[Pontios]

The government would lose money for making drugs legal...

[Han Cholo]

Decriminalize all. The problem of letting drugs in black market is that dealers or producers don't get any quality revision, and thus can alter any product at will, or sell very low quality stuff; from cannabis, to cocaine, exstasy, LSD, etc... People will anyway get drugs whether legal or not, this is empirical evidence. However, if it becomes legal (or at least semi-regular) the cases of overdoses from watered down/altered substances will be less. It would guarantee the purity and the hazards of certain drugs.

[The Lawspeaker]

The government would lose money for making drugs legal...
Actually they would make money: it can be taxed and there would be no more war on drugs (which has been the most costly farce since WWII).

[Mason8]

I Accept , whether your preference drugs or alcohol, two options are designed to make our lives better, not vice versa. If something does more harm than good, so maybe to rethink the use of it.

[Stefan]

This is what the war on drugs leads to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ciavarella

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prisons


Federal and state government has a long history of contracting out specific services to private firms, including medical services, food preparation, vocational training, and inmate transportation. The 1980s, though, ushered in a new era of prison privatization. With a burgeoning prison population resulting from the War on Drugs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs) and increased use of incarceration, prison overcrowding and rising costs became increasingly problematic for local, state, and federal governments. In response to this expanding criminal justice system, private business interests saw an opportunity for expansion, and consequently, private-sector involvement in prisons moved from the simple contracting of services to contracting for the complete management and operation of entire prisons.[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prisons#cite_note-autogenerated2-9)

[Siberian Cold Breeze]

Actually I lose all my nationalistic feelings when I see a person walk like a zombie he/she can be from any nation or race .No human deserves such a horrible life..Drug addiction is side effect of consumerism. It uses same propaganda -buy and use a product and be happy -destroying people and make them walking deads with no souls,no hope but still can afford to buy drugs because they need

Do we really need all these products?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REP6NCDfAtg&list=PL949EA6E9168BC9A5


materialism leads people to drug culture..we humans lost our way between human body-pleasure and money

[YeshAtid]

Actually I lose all my nationalistic feelings when I see a person walk like a zombie he/she can be from any nation or race .No human deserves such a horrible life..Drug addiction is side effect of consumerism. It uses same propaganda -buy and use a product and be happy -destroying people and make them walking deads with no souls,no hope but still can afford to buy drugs because they need

Do we really need all these products?
That's in extreme circumstances

[hobosmurf]

Even for harder stuff like heroin, if people want to fuck themselves like that that should be their choice, as long as there isn't public funded treatment being wasted on people who decided to do that.

Not to mention it interferes with other uses of those substances

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71RO345Q8tY