Legalizing coke, heroin or meth makes no sense. That shit can and will kill you. Pot won't, plain and simple.

Coke isn't so bad with proper production and use. I can't say much about heroine. Meth, of course, is God's way of reinforcing natural selection.

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If used responsibly, I doubt it is. Although few people are able to do so, the few who almost undoubtedly do should be allowed to carry on as they please. In my opinion, that is. Heroin is a prodrug of morphine, simply much more lipophilic, and many people are able to use opiates - such as heroin - responsibly as well. Opiates in general, with a few exceptions, are quite benign as far as physical damage is concerned. When injected, the adulterants are the real danger of heroin use. Well, and the addiction. That has to suck.

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my concern is the overdose. And how ive seen coke, heroin or meth literally fill someones every thought all day every day. Its just sad. Never seen that happen with pot. Not at all. Ive seen someone smoke all day, but if they didn't have any they didn't FREAK out. It was a bummer, but thats it.

Ive seen alcohol fill someones thoughts, but we tried prohibition already, it didn't work.

Lots of things can kill you. Every year hundreds of kids die from huffing dangerous chemicals. Should we make Dust Off illegal too? Should we make all of the hundreds of chemicals kids huff illegal? Heck, I know one guy who turned his brain to mush from sniffing gasoline fumes. Maybe we should make gasoline illegal too.

Each year, more than 830 children ages 14 and under die as a result of unintentional drowning.

Should we make swimming pools illegal too?

Teen suicides had been declining until 2007, where they increased 8% in one year.

The analysis also found that changes had taken place in the methods used to attempt suicide. In 1990, firearms were the most common method for both girls and boys. However, in 2004, hanging/suffocation was the most common method of suicide among girls, accounting for 71.4 percent of suicides among 10- to-14-year-old girls and 49 percent among 15-to-19 year-old girls. From 2003 to 2004, there was a 119 percent increase in hanging/suffocation suicides among 10-to -14-year-old girls. For boys and young men, firearms are still the most common method.

Look at those stats on hanging? I say we make rope illegal too.

You simply can't protect everyone, no matter how bad you want to.

ALL DRUGS SHOULD BE LEGALIZED.

Make the hard drugs a little harder to get. If you do not legalize them, then the black market will provide them and they will be more dangerous, with more impurities and the profits will go to scumbags who place little to no value on human life.

Why didn't prohibition work?

What problems did prohibition cause?

Isn't the war on drugs causing the exact same problems that alcohol prohibition caused?

Your last statement seems rather odd - "we tried prohibition already, [but] it didn't work". Are you talking specifically about alcohol, or are you also talking about the prohibition that you advocate (i.e. coke, meth, heroin), which also doesn't work?

I'm assuming that you're talking about alcohol only, as advocating for something that doesn't work seems rather silly. If that is the case, why would you think that prohibition of one dangerous substance could not possibly work but that we ought to try the same strategy on another substance? Are you simply in favor of preserving the status quo for the sake of comfort?

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Probably because he thinks that alcohol is somehow "ingrained" in our society and all of the others drugs are not. Never mind that just under 50% of Americans have tried MJ by 12th grade. There's a LAW against it and that means it can't possibly become INGRAINED, no matter how ineffective said law has been proven to be.

Yup, that get's tossed around a lot, and I find it especially egregious due to the fact that:

A. Waaaaay too many cops are binge drinkers, if not juicehounds and
B. People die all the time from overdoses of smack, etc... in the joint

Those poor criminals.

Perhaps more to the point is that if we as a society cannot successfully keep prisoners from abusing drugs, there would seem to be very little hope for prohibition policies at large to be successful. Even when people eat, sleep, and crap on the government schedule, under supervision, the government is still not competent enough to make prohibition successful.

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That wooshing sound? The one over your head?

Never mind....

Huffing paint, markers, glue, gas whathave you is already illegal. If youre caught doing it you get to go to JAIL.

Youre oversimplifying. Besides, our culture isn't at all ready to accept a bill that legalizes all drugs. Pot could get legalized if people would stop lumping it in with coke, heroin and meth. I'm a pot smoker, and I'm just looking out for my interests.

Its different. Alcohol and pot are no where near as bad as meth or heroin. There just aren't redeeming qualities for those drugs. Everyone i've met whos done meth or heroine has had SERIOUS psychological and physical problems because of it. Pot and alcohol not so much. Most of the problems from pot and alcohol stem from legality issues (dwi and the like. possesion for pot). Heroin doesn't have to be illegal to turn you into a dope whore.

I'm concerned with getting pot legalized. I think that could be accomplished in part by seperating pot from "hard" drugs. Just looking out for number one.

Not it at all. Alcohol prohibition didn't work because its you can make it at home with sugar. Just like you can grow pot in your closet easily. Coke heroin are nearly impossible to produce in your backyard. With stiffer penalties, tighter border control, and the like you could really cut down on it. Meth is trickier but it can be done. Just trying to be realistic about what could actually pass through congress.