Let me explain the point, I read a locked thread that was locked due to a lack of explantion, and see how the waters are a churning.
1) The current war on drugs is being won. The only problem is that the current war isn't being won by the law rather by the cartells. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/bu...ers.html?_r=2& will assist in the point I'm making. Personally the stats are harder, for me at the least at time of writing this, to come by than I had expacted so bear with me.
2) Tests have shown a link to neurlogical regrowth when exposed to THC. http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...e-helps-others While the inhalation is damaging to young cells it has been linked to helping those with Altzimers.
3) The arguement of "It is being used to fuel crime familites" is sadly flawed. Looking at any cartel one must approach it as though it were any other bussiness, just using different rules, and as such why do they well it? It make more money then that which is in vestest into it. By legalising the market prices would result in a crash thereby reducing profit ade and reducing the chances of it being employed. While it won't stop them bothering to try it will reduce the influence in the market.
4) Currently every penny made via the sale is tax free in countries, and states, where it is still illegal and as such is a loss of revenue. While I may not be one to love the tax man I believe they are still entitled to their proportion of the taxes owed by the parties.
5) Prohabition has never worked. Unless the substance in question is near on impossiable to replicate without an exact method and apperatus people will always be able to get aound the law via their own means. The famous prohabition of America is a great way of showing this. It was illegal yet people could very easily get hold of it via drug stores/ shabeens. People will always find a way to get what they want when given enough time.
6) The currently published statics show that marajuana is less adictive than nicotine and alcohol both of which are completely legal. http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/basicfax5.htm It is a farce to state that one addictive substance is legal while others are illegal. Either addictive is leal or illegal no middle ground.
7) People will be driving around while intoxicated and thereby causing accidents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...6/?tool=pubmed shows that those driving while high are less likely to cause an accident. Couple this is an accurate testing method, we currently have mouth swabs that can test positive of useage within minutes, and the police can still moderate those driving while under the influence.
8) Legalisation would reduce the chances of minors being able to get the drug. While they can still, they currently do with alcohol and ciggarettes, the legalisation of it would reduce the chance of said issue arrising given correct policing and monitoring. At the end of the day the store owner must be the nay sayer while a dealer isn't going to loose a potential client given they are currently doing something illicet.
9) Let people be able to do with their bodies their own choices. I'm not advocating that a bus driver should be able to hit a bong and then drive some kids around but to condone excessive drinking while imbiding an possesing pot is illegal. People should and always should be able to do with their bodies what is their own right to do so. Dictating what can and cannot be done to ones self is the creation of a nanny state. One which can take away whatever rights they feel they need to at any given time. It should be within a persons right to sit at home and get high/drunk/sleep or do wat they want providing they are not impacting those around them negetively. Sit at home high = ood in my books, drinking while high/endangering outhers = bad
10) Finially and sadly I cannot find the source but the whole "pot is going to cause brain damage or you could even OD on it". The first tests done on cannabis were questional at best. What he scientists effectivly did, in the 50s mind you and we all know how right and just we were then, was to put a bunch of monkies in a small room and set a shit load of it alight. Now the monkies did get high. They did also suffer from brain damage but the issue is well... You could have been buring prety much anythin and kill hem via this means. They were killed via smoke inhalation and from what I can gather smoking tabbacco isn't illegal and that quantity of smoke could do he same. Finailly on the OD issue well... if I remember correctly the amoun needed to be imbinded would be ~1.5x the body weight of it. You couldn't even get this amount into your system and if you did I tink you deserve a Darwin award. there have been zero recorded cases of death via OD in ralation o cannabis.
I hope I have made some compelling arguements. Maybe my own explantion should help. I completely advocate te free choice to do unto ones self whatever they deem fair. Our own bodies belong to none but ourselves and as such we should be the end point for these choices. Be it anything from alcohol to marajuana to smack it doesn't matter. People should be free to do as they wish for themselves to themselves without being nannied. Education is the tool for prevention. Laws will only fill our jails, slow the courts, waste our police time and demonize those whom are expressing their own rights.
Thoughts?
1) The current war on drugs is being won. The only problem is that the current war isn't being won by the law rather by the cartells. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/bu...ers.html?_r=2& will assist in the point I'm making. Personally the stats are harder, for me at the least at time of writing this, to come by than I had expacted so bear with me.
2) Tests have shown a link to neurlogical regrowth when exposed to THC. http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...e-helps-others While the inhalation is damaging to young cells it has been linked to helping those with Altzimers.
3) The arguement of "It is being used to fuel crime familites" is sadly flawed. Looking at any cartel one must approach it as though it were any other bussiness, just using different rules, and as such why do they well it? It make more money then that which is in vestest into it. By legalising the market prices would result in a crash thereby reducing profit ade and reducing the chances of it being employed. While it won't stop them bothering to try it will reduce the influence in the market.
4) Currently every penny made via the sale is tax free in countries, and states, where it is still illegal and as such is a loss of revenue. While I may not be one to love the tax man I believe they are still entitled to their proportion of the taxes owed by the parties.
5) Prohabition has never worked. Unless the substance in question is near on impossiable to replicate without an exact method and apperatus people will always be able to get aound the law via their own means. The famous prohabition of America is a great way of showing this. It was illegal yet people could very easily get hold of it via drug stores/ shabeens. People will always find a way to get what they want when given enough time.
6) The currently published statics show that marajuana is less adictive than nicotine and alcohol both of which are completely legal. http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/basicfax5.htm It is a farce to state that one addictive substance is legal while others are illegal. Either addictive is leal or illegal no middle ground.
7) People will be driving around while intoxicated and thereby causing accidents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...6/?tool=pubmed shows that those driving while high are less likely to cause an accident. Couple this is an accurate testing method, we currently have mouth swabs that can test positive of useage within minutes, and the police can still moderate those driving while under the influence.
8) Legalisation would reduce the chances of minors being able to get the drug. While they can still, they currently do with alcohol and ciggarettes, the legalisation of it would reduce the chance of said issue arrising given correct policing and monitoring. At the end of the day the store owner must be the nay sayer while a dealer isn't going to loose a potential client given they are currently doing something illicet.
9) Let people be able to do with their bodies their own choices. I'm not advocating that a bus driver should be able to hit a bong and then drive some kids around but to condone excessive drinking while imbiding an possesing pot is illegal. People should and always should be able to do with their bodies what is their own right to do so. Dictating what can and cannot be done to ones self is the creation of a nanny state. One which can take away whatever rights they feel they need to at any given time. It should be within a persons right to sit at home and get high/drunk/sleep or do wat they want providing they are not impacting those around them negetively. Sit at home high = ood in my books, drinking while high/endangering outhers = bad
10) Finially and sadly I cannot find the source but the whole "pot is going to cause brain damage or you could even OD on it". The first tests done on cannabis were questional at best. What he scientists effectivly did, in the 50s mind you and we all know how right and just we were then, was to put a bunch of monkies in a small room and set a shit load of it alight. Now the monkies did get high. They did also suffer from brain damage but the issue is well... You could have been buring prety much anythin and kill hem via this means. They were killed via smoke inhalation and from what I can gather smoking tabbacco isn't illegal and that quantity of smoke could do he same. Finailly on the OD issue well... if I remember correctly the amoun needed to be imbinded would be ~1.5x the body weight of it. You couldn't even get this amount into your system and if you did I tink you deserve a Darwin award. there have been zero recorded cases of death via OD in ralation o cannabis.
I hope I have made some compelling arguements. Maybe my own explantion should help. I completely advocate te free choice to do unto ones self whatever they deem fair. Our own bodies belong to none but ourselves and as such we should be the end point for these choices. Be it anything from alcohol to marajuana to smack it doesn't matter. People should be free to do as they wish for themselves to themselves without being nannied. Education is the tool for prevention. Laws will only fill our jails, slow the courts, waste our police time and demonize those whom are expressing their own rights.
Thoughts?