Should drugs like pot, coke,smack and ecstasy be legalized?

I think pot should be legal. Booze is worse for you and it is legal.

I don’t think meth should be, I’m not a fan of white drugs. But I don’t think you should face jail time for possession of them. Maybe some mandatory outpatient rehab would be best if you are caught with them.

I simply don’t think prison time (not jail, prison specifically) should be for drug usage or possession. It takes up space in the already crowded prisons, which should be reserved for more serious criminals who could harm other people. That doesn’t mean I think the production of all those drugs should be legal, but I think there are other solutions. Rehab is one. Legalizing pot could be a good idea since it is not typically linked to dangerous behavior like crack and meth are, or even alcohol for that matter. I think some of the main reasons why pot is illegal and alcohol is legal is that for one, alcohol goes back longer in history and has historical connotations, and for most people, having one drug like that legal simply is better than having two.

Well, I’m more in favor of strict control and supervision than criminalization. The notion that less ‘stuff’ is available on the market if it is illegal simply doesn’t hold. Huge drug cartels ship tons of coke around the world and the number is increasing every year, while the price is – decreasing (The Economist).

From that follows that government control of illegal substances is not effective, because they cannot get full hold of them, cannot track them, cannot confiscate them and finally, cannot charge the ones responsible, because they cannot apprehend them. Here fails the ultimate goal of criminalization – to charge the ones responsible – you cannot do that if you cannot catch them.

On the other hand, government control of substances that go through their distribution channels is in theory the 100% control (if they own the substances and control the distribution channels, then everything that goes through them, is also in their direct control). Some say that this is only a remedy for potheads and junkies to get their stuff more easily and that it distances us from our prime goal – a drug-free society (somehow through reading countless anti-drug propaganda, I’ve made a conclusion that two of the main reasons as to why criminalization is good, leave alone that I’ve just proven to you why criminalization fails, is the strife for a drug-free society and individual health). Despite the fact that strict government control and thus legalization at first look seem like a direct opposition to a drug-free society, we also see that criminalization does not bring about a drug-free society. Just because something is illegal, doesn’t mean it’s not persistent. Drug-free society doesn’t come, it is achieved. And that can only be done if a responsible agent, which is not a pusher/dealer, but government, have control over those substances.

The only so called drug that should be legalized, is marijuana. Alcohol is proven to be more of a risk to your body, and has a bigger affect to your brain. Marijuana was only got illegalized because, Hemp threaten the lumber company because it made a cheaper better quallity paper. Marijuana is our answer to fix the economy. People will buy marijuana daily for consumption. Hemp will also be legalized and there are many different product made by hemp, like paper. It also makes biomass fuels, body care produts, pet food, detergents, Art supplies, and food products. Don’t believe me visit this site and see for your self, http://www.hempusa.org/hmps/articles/hemp-uses.html . For all other illegal drugs, if you do them you’re an idiot. Their illegal for your health, they are not cool, so go get help if do any other illegal drug.