Want to try something interesting? May I suggest going to Google, Yahoo or any search engine and type in legalize drugs in the search window. There you will find many websites trying to legalize illegal drugs. Many of these websites claim that if illegal drugs were legalized then many addicts would be able to overcome their addiction. Huh? So making it more readily available to the public would make these addicts less likely to use them? I am sorry, but you have to be on these drugs to come away with thinking like that. Just because you take the drugs out of the drug dealers hand and put them on shelves does not make your body crave them less. These sites also claim that crime would drop. I don't think so, I think the crime would just move from the streets to the stores. How many addicts would try to steal, rob, burglarize or hold up a store that carries these drugs? I am not a person with a degree in drug behavior, but I am an expert in watching what drugs did to a couple of friends of mine. One is dead now and the other spent many years in jail. The man who went to jail still does drugs. Before my friend died of drugs, he borrowed a vcr from me before I new he was an addict and pawned it. Could you imagine, he pawned his friends property so he could obtain drugs. Drugs make you do things that you don't normally do. Drugs also make you do things you wouldn't normally do just to get drugs. Crime, prostitution, suicide, murder are just a few things that come to mind.
Not only is it bad for the user but for the public as well. Look how many people die all over the world from drunk drivers. Do we really want to greatly raise the number of deaths because now more people are driving under the influence of illegal drugs? I believe lots of people do not use drugs because they are illegal and that might change if they did become legal. Alcohol for instance, how many less people would be drinking it if it were illegal. Something to think about huh?
The most important thing though is that drugs kill. Many, many people who have done drugs got addicted. These people come from all walks of life. All races, sexes, rich, poor, young, old and all other catagories I am failing to mention. Drugs do not discriminate, they will kill some people eventually. Drugs take over your life in most instances before they kill you. DRUGS BECOME YOUR MASTER AND YOU BECOME THEIR PUPPETS. Many people have lost everything from doing drugs. Their homes, cars, possessions, friends, family, freedom, everything. Then after all these bad things happen to you 3 things usually happen to you. Jail, Rehab or death. Maybe all 3 of them. Want some examples of deaths? Here is a list of celebrities who have died from overdosing or using illegal drugs:
John Belushi
Len Bias
Ken Caminiti
Robbin Crosby
John Doughtery
Kevin Dubrow
Chris Farley
Shannon Hoon
Janis Joplin
Gia
Sid Viscious
Layne Staley
David Ruffin
Brad Renfro
Dee Dee Ramone
River Phoenix
Robert Pastorelli
This is a partial list, a very short list. It is sad and does not include people who died using legal drugs or alcohol. One list I saw had over 200 names on it. The National Center for Health Statistics reported in 2004 that 19,250 died from illegal drug use. Wouldn't the world be better off with these people still in it? Wouldn't the world be better off with your friends or family still in it who died of drugs? Wouldn't the world be better off if no one was addicted to drugs. Legalize drugs? Bad idea.
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teacuppoms
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Feb 1 @ 4:56PM
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terrible idea good blog
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geoffcc1234
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Feb 1 @ 5:06PM
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Without knowing the exact websites you are referencing, it's difficult to tell where you got your information and how you interpreted it. Many people do feel that legalizing drugs would reduce crime and make a nice tax for the state. Look at alcohol. It's a legal drug and it creates millions if not billions in tax revenues.
Your other supposition, that everybody would steal the drugs is I believe, flawed. The idea of legalization is supposed to get rid of the artificially high street price of the drugs, thus making them affordable to the addict.
The use of drugs should be discouraged though the parents, the schools, the churches and society in general. As time has shown, making them illegal did not prevent their use/abuse. Opiates weren't illegal till the turn of the century and there recreational use was low until then. Cannabis was made illegal in 1937 (I believe) and that was so it wouldn't compete with the new legal drug alcohol.
We have all lost friends to drugs. The people on these sites are trying a different approach to solving a difficult problem which has plagued our society for many years. They are not trying to encourage usage. The fact that the jails are full and more and more drugs come into the country every year should tell you the present approach isn't working. More than half the people in jail are there for drugs alone. I'd like a little more for my tax dollar than to put a druggy into a jail in a failed system. Did Prohibition stop drinking?
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stephendedalus
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Feb 1 @ 5:26PM
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I hate the way all recreational substances are labeled under the one title- drugs.
There is a huge difference between marijuana and crack or opiates. Marijuana is not physically addictive. Crack is, though some claim it isn't, with long term use, it is. People don't steal for pot, unless they're just a dumbass who would steal for Oreo cookies or something. Legalizing cannibis would free up the legal system to deal with stuff like crack. Legalizing cannibis would allow stores to card minors (dealer don't). Legalizing cannibis would create a huge tax source. Legalizing cannibis would make it where responsible adults don't have to go through absurd rituals and hide their life style just because they like to smoke a joint after work. The fact that our government is either too stupid to see this or too cowardly in fear of losing poll numbers to go ahead and deal with legalization, is absurd and destructive. Yes, the illegality of pot IS destructive to human lives and to a normally somewhat efficient court system that is clogged up with silly weed charges.
As far as crack/cocaine, opiates, all the rest, they should buy an island and send all the crackheads and junkies there. Keep them from stealing our lawn mowers for good!
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TheClockmaker
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Feb 1 @ 5:47PM
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The idea of legalization is supposed to get rid of the artificially high street price of the drugs, thus making them affordable to the addict.
You can't be serious. By the time the government got through adding on state and federal taxes, this crap would be 10 times the cost it is now. That won't affect me personally because I don't use them.
But I will say this. I can see a small positive by legalizing some of the street drugs in use right now. The government can tax the hell out of the providers and users of the drug. Then use the money to help pay for some of the outrageous expense the taxpayer is forking over in the name of the war on drugs. Also, tighter controls could be placed on the drugs to make sure they are safe so addicts don't get bad drugs from some dealer trying to cut them with poison to make more profits. 
It's plenty obvious though by the growing number of addicts in our country, that if a person is so inclined to use, for recreation or whatever you want to classify it, they will get their drugs legal or not.
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warmc
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Feb 1 @ 6:30PM
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Im with the clockmaker. I have a son on drugs and he started out on pot and now its anything he gets his hands on, He is not allowed around my home because he will steal money and my meds I had to get a safe to keep my stuff in so he wont steal it, He has hit his little kids and that is the reason I cant let him be around the family 
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