MourinhoIsABellend wrote

Coushy wrote

TTGTeezla wrote Agree. People doing drugs and drinking (mostly underage) to impress their friends don't deserve ANY friends.

It's all fun and games to them, yet the concequences drugs and alcahol can have on some
especially under the age of 18 can be serious. Like whats the point?

***** your life must be boring af

So because he chooses not to drink and do drugs his life must be boring "af"?

Coushy wrote

MourinhoIsABellend wrote

Coushy wrote

TTGTeezla wrote Agree. People doing drugs and drinking (mostly underage) to impress their friends don't deserve ANY friends.

It's all fun and games to them, yet the concequences drugs and alcahol can have on some
especially under the age of 18 can be serious. Like whats the point?

***** your life must be boring af

So because he chooses not to drink and do drugs his life must be boring "af"?

yea thats pretty much what it says

Motivational wrote Anything is terrible if you take too much of it. Drink too much and destroy your liver, take too much sugar and you'll destroy your pancreas.

I personally think all drugs should be banned, except weed and steroids, since they do little harm and can be controlled.

Of course anyone can do what they want with their own body, so long that it doesn't harm anyone else.

Solus wrote

Motivational wrote Anything is terrible if you take too much of it. Drink too much and destroy your liver, take too much sugar and you'll destroy your pancreas.

I personally think all drugs should be banned, except weed and steroids, since they do little harm and can be controlled.

Of course anyone can do what they want with their own body, so long that it doesn't harm anyone else.

I agree with everything here except your point about banning drugs.

Gang violence in the US increased exponentially once the drug war was instigated. If people want to take drugs they will get them in any way that they can, even if that includes breaking the law.
States in the US which have legalized the sale of marijuana, like Colorado, have seen decreases in crime rates, increases in tax revenue and an increase in jobs.

Criminalizing drugs pushes the market for them underground and into the hands of criminals where the product is sub-standard, sometimes dangerously so, and the revenue fuels violent crime.

In my opinion, they should legalize all drugs, even including Class A drugs.
With this legalization, there should be a monumental increase in education about drugs, their negative effects and their positive ones.

Ethically speaking, a substance having negative effects on a person's health when overused is not a reason to ban them from using said substance. Otherwise McDonalds and KFC would be illegal.
Like you said, anything is terrible if you take too much of it.

Solus wrote

Motivational wrote Anything is terrible if you take too much of it. Drink too much and destroy your liver, take too much sugar and you'll destroy your pancreas.

I personally think all drugs should be banned, except weed and steroids, since they do little harm and can be controlled.

Of course anyone can do what they want with their own body, so long that it doesn't harm anyone else.

I agree with everything here except your point about banning drugs.

Gang violence in the US increased exponentially once the drug war was instigated. If people want to take drugs they will get them in any way that they can, even if that includes breaking the law.
States in the US which have legalized the sale of marijuana, like Colorado, have seen decreases in crime rates, increases in tax revenue and an increase in jobs.

Criminalizing drugs pushes the market for them underground and into the hands of criminals where the product is sub-standard, sometimes dangerously so, and the revenue fuels violent crime.

In my opinion, they should legalize all drugs, even including Class A drugs.
With this legalization, there should be a monumental increase in education about drugs, their negative effects and their positive ones.

Ethically speaking, a substance having negative effects on a person's health when overused is not a reason to ban them from using said substance. Otherwise McDonalds and KFC would be illegal.
Like you said, anything is terrible if you take too much of it.

Motivational wrote

Solus wrote

Motivational wrote Anything is terrible if you take too much of it. Drink too much and destroy your liver, take too much sugar and you'll destroy your pancreas.

I personally think all drugs should be banned, except weed and steroids, since they do little harm and can be controlled.

Of course anyone can do what they want with their own body, so long that it doesn't harm anyone else.

I agree with everything here except your point about banning drugs.

Gang violence in the US increased exponentially once the drug war was instigated. If people want to take drugs they will get them in any way that they can, even if that includes breaking the law.
States in the US which have legalized the sale of marijuana, like Colorado, have seen decreases in crime rates, increases in tax revenue and an increase in jobs.

Criminalizing drugs pushes the market for them underground and into the hands of criminals where the product is sub-standard, sometimes dangerously so, and the revenue fuels violent crime.

In my opinion, they should legalize all drugs, even including Class A drugs.
With this legalization, there should be a monumental increase in education about drugs, their negative effects and their positive ones.

Ethically speaking, a substance having negative effects on a person's health when overused is not a reason to ban them from using said substance. Otherwise McDonalds and KFC would be illegal.
Like you said, anything is terrible if you take too much of it.

You do make some very good points. I doubt it will ever happen though, I'd be fine with what you said so long as they'd at least put an age restriction to buy these drugs.

You also have to consider that these drugs are extremely expensive and since they'd be legal and far easier to access, of course more people would be using them. So I would ask, what happens when someone in the lower wealth region (most drug users) can't afford their drugs anymore? Surely they'll do whatever it takes and committing crimes would be their first source of money.

If we could find a way to make them less addictive or less potent, I think it would definitely work.