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StarChild
And I'll take the stance and say that prohibiting drug use of any kind amongst adults is immoral. Yes, nationalize drugs, tax the massive income generated and allow consenting adults to smoke, snort, or inject substances they've paid with their own money and used in the privacy of their own home. To oppose that choice is immoral.
Whereas I'm personally for legalization of marijuana, I'm not so sure about some of the other schedule I drugs.
Do you believe it is immoral simply because it is inhibiting the free will of individuals in regards to ingesting substances, whether or not they are harmful?
Does the harm drugs like heroin cause not play into your standards for what is right and wrong?
Just curious
In my previous replay I asked you to get informed, please do, what is been proposed is to legalise a drug what you dont need, it has not been prescribed and is an addictive drug and as with all addictive drugs the user develops tolerance (needing higher dosis, as the body get accustomed to it), the preferred route of ingestion (smoking) is an added problem, if you are not in pain, Why do you need Morphine? Do you know whats the difference between legal and illegal usage of a drug? The difference between an addictive drug an non addictive drug? The prescriptions Addictive pain killers are a choice of last resort eg. For the dying, where addiction is not an issue in this area governments all over the world are financing their research and testing. They give the companies money, they dont participate in the profit directly from the sales and distribution of them. Its an investment in the betterment of society, drug induced psychosis is one of the most destructive ill o to society.
Just commenting on the bold, underlined part of your quote here.
Prescription painkillers that are addictive are NOT just given as a last resort.
Doctors hand out hydrocodone (a narcotic analgesic) like candy. I had bottles of the stuff prescribed to me when I was no older than 14! Although I didn't take it often.
I was also prescribed ambien, which is an extremely addictive sleep-aid, at 14.
And there you go, and as told the OP mover, please get informed, find the statistic of the destruction that the choice of consenting adults drug usage has in a society, perhaps you should do a bit of research, there are statistic on murder and suicides that are directly caused by the use of marijuana, the car crashes that are the direct consequences of it use and driving under it influence.
Actually, when it comes to pharmacological violence (violence caused by use of a drug) is very hard to prove. Not only that, but marijuana by itself makes users more passive than active, and tends to mellow users in circumstances where there may be some sort of conflict.
If someone is violent, it's probably due to another drug altogether, or another drug mixed with marijuana. Not just the marijuana itself.
You are kidding, arent you? You should also have look at some statistic and find out what percentage of the income is used to support this addictions and the fact that there is tolerance involved, the individual need more and more of the drug to get the same effect that they get at the beginning of their addiction, cigarettes and alcohol are good examples, marijuana is more addictive than these two so it is easy to predict how long it will take these individuals to have to resort to criminality to support their addiction.
Cigarettes and alcohol are WAY more addictive than marijuana. You have your information backwards.
Also, I would like to add a quote from a text on drugs and the behavior they tend to produce (Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society by Levinthal):
Of all the psychoactive drugs we could consider, the one with the most definitive and widely reported links to violent behavior is alcohol....The more violent the crime, the greater the probability that the perpetrator of the crime was drunk while committing it. Studies show at least a majority of homicides and sexually aggressive acts (rapes and attempted rapes) are committed while the offender is drunk.
Even though pharmacological violence is pretty much a null argument in the case of many drugs, alcohol is one of the few where it is easily proven, so your argument that marijuana is more addictive and/or more dangerous than alcohol is false.