I Am So Angry!

Right on!!! I think if alchohol is legal, most other drugs should be too. Not a lot of them have caused as many deaths as alchohol, and the shitty part is that alchohol usually affects others more than the drinker. There have been numerous occasions when a drunk driver would hit someone and the driver lived, but the others died. "Drunk drivers kill, stoned drivers miss their exit"

However, I cna't say I would hold something like meth in the same category. Around here, there is a lot of meth going down, and the labs frequently get busted. The worst part of meth is how addicting it is, with the effects it has. Something addictive like ciggarettes doesn't give the high meth does. But then the same thing could be said of heroin and coke. However, neither of those are commonly manufactured by some speeding redneck making a drug in his shack using drain cleaner, strick9 and cough syrup.

 

Maybe alcohol should be illegal as well then instead of other drugs being legalized, not that it would ever happen. Alcohol is the most widely used drug so of course more people are affected by it. And yes stoned drivers kill too, as well as people intoxicated by other substances. To drive while intoxicated is stupid, no matter what the source of intoxication.

 

That was tried and it failed.
It was called Prohibition...The period (1920-1933) during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was in force in the United States.

We however learned nothing from this
misguided, failed experiment
witness the current 'drug' situation.

Why will Folks not understand/ admit when the
profit motive is removed,
organized crime usually moves on to greener/ more profitable ventures?

 

Of course it failed, alcohol was already the most widely used drug at that time and those dependent on it were given no real help, they were just made into crminals.

 

And this differs from the current drug situation how?

Two wrongs don't make a right last I checked...


Forgot or choosing to ignore the profit motive issue?

 

Is alchohol more widely used than nicotine? Or are you just talking about very intoxicating drugs. I would actually rather see weed made legal over alchohol, because of the way the high affects people.

Yes, I do know that stoned drivers kill, it was merely a quote from somewhere I can't remember. The point is, it is a LOT less common than alchohol, because people on pot usually drive VERY slowly, they don't get sloppy and think that the drug increases their driving ability so they can go super fast.

I agree, it is stupid to drive while intoxicated. To risk your life as well as many others is a bad thing to do. I have no argument there.

 

Agreed!

 

This differs because drug dependent people can get help now and those who use illegal drugs knew they were illegal when they started using.

Choosing to ignore the profit motive because it has no real relevance to my point.

Yes

Again alcohol is more widly used so more people drive drunk than stoned which is why so many more accidents are caused by drunk drivers. Weed increases reaction time more than alcohol does.

 

The current drug situation is a culmination of many issues.

Ignoring issues/ claiming they're not relevant
may score points in a debate
but adds nothing to the situation's solution.

 

"they were doing their job" has to be the #1 excuse for people who want to justify all kinds of bad behavior, and the people committing the bad behavior just use it as an excuse to do it again because they know there will always be those who will look the other way simply because "they were doing their job". So the cycle of violence continues.

 

Ok, the governmet is full of money hungry whores who would not illegalize tobacco or alcohol even if they could because of the money they make from the high taxes placed on them. They could and would do the same to any other drugs made legal as well. Of course if the drugs made legal were proven to be less of a health hazzard they couldn't tax them as high.

 

Better they did their jobs than not at all. If you noticed I did say the way they enforced the law was bad, it was even illegal if it went down the way we've been told.

 

I'm probably going to have to chalk this up as the most pitiful thing i've ever read

 

Make the bad run-on sentence go away!





*whimpers*

 

This is getting wierd... I just think they shouldn't be preying on harmless people trying to have a good time. Sheesh.

 

What's weird in advocating anarchy?

*tongue in check*

 

Why don't we make the bad behavior go away instead?

 

Hahahahahahhaha

 

I agree...

Hate to sound all anal about drug use, but I'd rather that people get detoxed from whatever they're using rather than doing a couple hits of acid and go out driving impared.

That was a weird rant. But then again, it's easy to get angry about silly things when you're 15.

 

Hitler would be proud.