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Post by rmarks1 on Oct 2, 2013 22:22:18 GMT -5
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Post by raybar on Oct 3, 2013 9:31:13 GMT -5
Prohibition, absent an omnipresent police state, can never work.
If there is something you don't like, but can't eliminate, what's worse?
--- Keeping it illegal, thus creating a black market and all the usual black market problems?
Or
--- Have it legal, with some reasonable regulations and oversight?
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Post by rmarks1 on Oct 3, 2013 11:23:56 GMT -5
Prohibition, absent an omnipresent police state, can never work. If there is something you don't like, but can't eliminate, what's worse? --- Keeping it illegal, thus creating a black market and all the usual black market problems? Or --- Have it legal, with some reasonable regulations and oversight? Yes Ray. Exactly the point. Bob |
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Post by juliet on Oct 5, 2013 11:21:25 GMT -5
I've long been a proponent of legalizing currently illegal drugs. The sort of people who bleat about permitting bad behavior are blinded by their passion. Prohibition should have taught us the folly of, well, prohibition. A small permanent drop in alcohol consumption was hardly worth the price we paid.
We all know the benefits of legalizing drugs: addicts no longer risk arrest for seeking help (especially good for pregnant women wanting to get clean); quality control of the drugs; every stage of production, sale, and transport can be regulated for safety (and taxed for revenue -- let's be honest); pulls the teeth of the cartels, and removes the 'rebel cred' of drug use. It also saves a lot of young people from criminal records for the crime of being young and stupid.
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Post by rmarks1 on Oct 5, 2013 13:48:40 GMT -5
I've long been a proponent of legalizing currently illegal drugs. The sort of people who bleat about permitting bad behavior are blinded by their passion. Prohibition should have taught us the folly of, well, prohibition. A small permanent drop in alcohol consumption was hardly worth the price we paid. We all know the benefits of legalizing drugs: addicts no longer risk arrest for seeking help (especially good for pregnant women wanting to get clean); quality control of the drugs; every stage of production, sale, and transport can be regulated for safety (and taxed for revenue -- let's be honest); pulls the teeth of the cartels, and removes the 'rebel cred' of drug use. It also saves a lot of young people from criminal records for the crime of being young and stupid. Good post Juliet. All I can say is Amen. Bob Marks |
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Post by debutante on Oct 5, 2013 15:44:13 GMT -5
There's a problem with that you're not considering. What if these people become ill and have to go to a doctor?
Even over the counter medications or herbal supplements can wreck havoc with care management. Most doctors I know aren't particularly thrilled when their ER rotation deals them an addict. There is the matter of increased liability. If everyone begins using recreational drugs -- there's going to be corresponding problems in health care management.
--Debutante
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Post by juliet on Oct 13, 2013 19:34:04 GMT -5
There's a problem with that you're not considering. What if these people become ill and have to go to a doctor? Even over the counter medications or herbal supplements can wreck havoc with care management. Most doctors I know aren't particularly thrilled when their ER rotation deals them an addict. There is the matter of increased liability. If everyone begins using recreational drugs -- there's going to be corresponding problems in health care management. --Debutante We deal with it the same way we deal with the abuse of alcohol and tobacco: we treat the immediate problem, then try to get the people into programs to help them. |
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