Anyone got any views on this 'burning' issue?

[Pete McCluskey.]

So what about the carnage caused by these crackhead ,pot smoking disease ridden junkies on your way to cleansing the gene pool. They will be walking the streets,driving cars ,operating machines in the work place and passing on terrible sexually transmitted diseases. It would be a bit like giving the keys to an off license ( liquor store ) to a full blown alcoholic. .The only way you will cleanse the gene pool would be to round up every junkie / drug dealer in the world and shoot all the lowlife scumbags. Meantime regulation keeps a very loose lid on things.

Bob

Mate they are doing that today sadly, legalising it will not increase the addicts as ending prohibition didn't increase the number of alcoholics.
It will take the profit away from the cartels which law enforcement is not controlling.

 

[Robert May Eng.]

Mate they are doing that today sadly, legalising it will not increase the addicts as ending prohibition didn't increase the number of alcoholics.

I cant see this being right, to make something freely available will attract more potential triers that could possibly become long term users. And on and on.

Bob

 

[Keith]

There is always a 'hidden element' which never gets accounted for. Regarding the Volstead Act, it may have impacted most positively on the poverty end of the market, but this segment is almost never represented in the glossy happy jazzy gangster prohibition era movies that symbolise the event for many.

When Volstead was repealed it is quite possible that millions, for whom alcohol was but a distant memory, became all too frequently familiar with alcohol and it's cheap and readily accessible status.

I completely agree with the theorising of those that wish to legalise 'certain drugs' (remember, there are many popular drugs which would never be legalised) but unless it can be proven that legalisation will have a benign affect on our society as a whole, I will never ever support such a move.

You would end up with a two tier drug supply system. There would be wholesale corruption in the 'official' supply chain and a new, dedicated and very costly enforcement infrastructure implemented to police the whole sorry mess.

No Western Govt I can think off would back such a move - it would be the ultimate political hand grenade.

Criminal gangs will not leave this market. Counterfeiters will rule.

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

That was me Jimbo, how is the short term memory going?:laugh:

What did you say your name is? Slipped my mind, what's left of it.

Years ago in Boy Scouts I was trying to learn Morse code, and I recall reading that there was no easy way to learn Morse, but there was a less difficult way.

By analogy, there is no good way out of the drug mess worldwide, but there is a less bad way. If it isn't criminal behavior, it can be (somewhat) regulated, and that isn't to say that criminal USE of drugs has to be unregulated. After all, we buy and consume alcohol legally all the time- but DUI and DWI are still crimes and ought to be.