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Green_T


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Re: Study: Drug Legalization Could Save $88 Billion [Re: German Kahuna]
#13274437 - 10/01/10 10:03 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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FleshCap said: I'm seeing a lot of extreme perspectives and arguments. I think when it comes to drug policy reform the answer lies in the middle.legalization may save money on enforcement, but will lead to other costs related to addiction treatment. It's not as simple as some would like us to believe.
That cost is already there. People already have medical issues related to their drug abuse. The drug abuse and addiction will not rise significantly if all drugs are legalized. Prohibition has never worked. People get stoned, whether it is legal to do so or not. The difference is that legal drugs will be clean drugs. Most of the drug-related medical issues come from the shit that drugs are cut with. I'd much rather take drugs manufactured by professional chemists in a controlled commercial lab environment than by a bunch of punks in a basement meth kitchen.
QFT.
The way I see it, legalization would NOT lead to increased use; the legal status of substances do little to determine if people use them or not, and how often. So what we have now are the problems of drugs PLUS prohibition, but if we legalized we would just have the problems of drugs. Furthermore, with legalization, the problems of drugs would be out in the open and thus easier to take care of.
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curenado
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Re: Study: Drug Legalization Could Save $88 Billion [Re: badchad]
#13274542 - 10/01/10 10:28 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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curenado said: Well, I must be getting a tiny bit better because I deleted off a whole page RANT for:
A lot of people don't want to hear anymore about costs of treatment for addiction. How about not a dime of public money for the teatment of addiction? How about that.
(I hope if it pleases you, that you can vividly imagine the rest )
Hell yes.
I vote that YOU get to arbitrarily decide what health services are provided for with "public money".
If you can't afford healthcare, then you don't deserve it. Right?
No - I was not saying that at all. I was just saying that for MY ONE VOTE no money for junkie rehab.
You don't know what it is like with all the drug stuff cramming up what is supposed to be regular, medical, critical services. Not people with ZERO concern for anyone else demanding that it is so IMPORTANT! - their drug problem.
The cure for drugs is quit taking them - anybody can get carried away but it has taken half the country with it. Guess you get tired of caring about something it does not do you any good to?
What about the old psychiatric maxim that people who have to pay for help usually get better faster and people who don't....
Don't want a war over stupid junkies with you - not worth the time or thought imo
Maybe everyone can be entitled to 25k worth of your ONE "Get out of sh*t free" card if that will make it better.
As far as bringing people who are ready to come down on gradual reduction - this is the US and that would be entirely to sensible for us. Not enough people getting in the kitty ($) that way either.
-------------------- Yours in the Natural State Land of Enchantment! "The woods are lovely, dark and deep; but I have patches to keep, and jars to sterilize before I sleep...." "When psychotomimetics become cultural, so does cultural psychosis"
Edited by curenado (10/01/10 10:34 AM)
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