You are totally crazy. Of all the drugs out there, the most dangerous one to do just one time and never again is LSD. I know from personal experience back in 1970. One use, at least two years of flashbacks, three years to get back to normal.
The war on drugs needs to be stepped up and really enforced with eradication programs. I would love to see the marijuana plant become extinct and synthetic opiates produced cheaply so that the opium poppy could also be eradicated.
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If recreational drugs were legalised not only would less of your taxes be going to the war on drugs, additional revenue raised from the taxation of these drugs could be fed back in to treatment for addicts (again lowering the amount of your taxes needed for such a thing) and the legal supply would enable users to get their fix in a (relatively) safer form, meaning they would have less need for treatment (again lowering your personal contribution to such things).
I'm sorry, but condoning the creation of new addicts by legalization is not acceptable.
The funny thing is, you only see monetary costs in treatment. Try lost productivity, welfare, permanent disfigurement and disability, unwanted pregnancies and welfare for those children. I could go on.
Illegal drugs just make criminals out of people that don't need to be criminals.
I don't agree with that part, if they are doing something they know is illegal then they are criminals.
Making all drugs legal after so many people have been fighting against them and so many law enforcement officers have died in the process is just saying that the law doesn't matter because if enough people break it we will just bend over and make it legal.
They're only known to appear in cases of extreme stress and emotional events as well as schizophrenia. In fact, every drug can cause some form a "flashback" in the same setting. Usually they are nothing like people portray them. In terms of LSD, its usually just the euphoria or the visual distortions("wiggly lines").
This sounds more like a personal issue than a practical, and logical argument.
From what I see here, your personal issue is that you feel you are paying taxes to support people on drugs. No you don't, however you do pay taxes to keep people in jail who where caught selling drugs, stealing for drug money, and killing over drug profits. You pay taxes which support a failed drug war which has cost this nation billions a year since 1985.
You should be the first to stand up and say stop this insanity, legalize this junk, tax the F@#$ out of it. Use that tax money for drug treatment and education. Because I don't want to pay for it anymore.
Because many of our prisons are like fucking hotels with cable TV, computers, internet, etc.
Cut them down to bread and water. Put their asses to work as well.
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It's about as practical and logical as people thinking legalization of hard drugs is in any way beneficial to society. Drug addicts are not productive members of society. They not only take down themselves, but their families as well.
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I'm aware, but overall it is not connected to LSD in itself. You can have such flashbacks of many areas of high emotional stress.... for example, PTSD. The flashbacks associated with it don't have anything to do with the itself drug outside of behavioral toxicity. So attributing such flashbacks to LSD really isn't applicable, as its essentially confusing correlation with causation.
You do understand that those are jails or for a prison that are for low threat/minimum crime convicts, and you'll only find a handful that are actually like that(excluding a white collar rich person jail/prison. But most times they get house arrest or get sent an actual hotel.) The internet, cable, and computers are for more than just the inmates. The staff and sheriffs use more of it then the people themselves.
Since this idea has been tested by Portugal which in 2000 had the highest percentage of drug abuse in all of Europe, so in 2002 they legalized all drugs taxed the crap out of them and used the money for addiction help and drug education. What was the result? Simple a sharp reduction of drug use.
It doesn't create new addicts, it helps stop new addicts, and treats the ones you have.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...rtugal-addicts
I assumed the monetary focus was your point, considering we were talking about your concerns over taxes. There's significant evidence pointing towards legalisation (or at least decriminalisation) and education doing more to alleviate these problems than a seemingly unwinnable war on drugs which leads to criminalising otherwise upstanding members of society and social stigma that can prevent people seeking treatment until their problems become much more complicated.
From the problems you listed, I assume you are also in favour of banning alcohol and having much tighter control over potentially addictive medicines.