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Should Cocaine Be Legal?
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Erlinn
I'm going to jump into what looks like the middle of a rousing debate and just randomly drop my opinion.
Sure, go ahead and legalize cocaine. If people are going to do it, they're going to do it. Period. If it's legal, then they just won't do it so quietly. I'm not saying sell it in stores in between the Cheerios and the Cheez-Whiz, but I don't see how anything would change other than the drop in drug trafficking-related crimes. Since, you know, THERE'D BE NO DRUGS TO TRAFFIC.
EDIT: Oh, and the drinking age of 21 is for the weak! Move to Scotland and drink at 18 like the real men!
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TheMediator
It's a matter of whether or not your body is mature enough to handle the alcohol. For someone with a still-developing brain, drugs can have quite an affect.
Their bodies are not mature enough to have alcohol, but they're mature enough to get shot up and blow apart? Meh, not really a valid argument. If you're old enough to die, you're old enough to drink IMO.
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carenician
I was viewing a television extraordinary on disclosure (may have been e or something like station) called cocaine country. Initially Cocaine was legitimate, however, individuals would go nuts on it, similar to a cokehead, and turn out to be messy and be difficult to control. I think the illegalization of it really started in view of racial reasons-whites were worried about the possibility that that blacks would get jumped up on coke, end up noticeably difficult to repress and assault white ladies. I trust they said coke utilize was more common among blacks around then since it was harder for them to get liquor and simple to get the coke.
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Watcherprime
I would argue with the RAND Corporation study that shows that the treatment of heavy users would drop use of cocaine by 1% for a fraction of the costs of traditional enforcement options.
If memory serves, it would take a factor of 5 for local enforcement, a factor of 50 for border interdiction and a factor of 200 for military operations to offer the same reduction in usage according to the study.
Granted, the study was done in 1990 so the numbers likely need adjustment but I would think a refocus of our efforts would serve our goals better if we are looking to reduce the long term impact of drug use and the number of heavy users.
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kyriexo
Yeah but that would take all the fun out of it, wouldn't it?
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Myrroddin
If a federal government legalized any and all drugs, then there should be one simple rule: you get one free fix from medical services if you overdose. Then you get put on a list, and doctors, nurses, paramedics, etc, check your ID. If your ID is on the list, they walk away and you die.
Why so harsh? That's simple too. It costs an outrageous amount of money to resuscitate an overdose, and repeat offenders should not drain the bank because they are stupid. Also, it is an enormous waste of time. I'd rather have medical staff help heart attack victims, or strokes, or people from traffic accidents. My point is that the quantity of time and money drug users contribute to tax reserves is dwarfed by the amount they take out because of their dumb decision to get high.
The same goes with Marijuana. For a "harmless" drug, a fair quantity of people who are high end up doing things that put themselves or others in harm's way. Feeling the buzz and suddenly you run a red light and hit a kid on a crosswalk. Yeah, that happens. There is no such thing as a "harmless" drug.
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Simonmon
And then instead of having cool Miami Vice-style action movies with cops chasing down gangs of drug dealers, we'd be left with movies about revenue agents auditing the books of legal corporate drug manufacturers.
Seriously? Are you crazy? Making hard drugs legal would completely wreck Hollywood and ruin the economy, sending us into a decades-long recession.
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