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schwadood

This is an issue I have thought about before and have had a hard time coming to a conclusion, but I think I've reached one. It was difficult because this is one where I can easily see both arguments. On one hand, as a potsmoker and someone who has experimented with a few other things, I know that drugs are not the problem, it is the misuse and abuse of drugs that is the problem. On the other hand, some harder drugs are just impossible to manage. And thats coming from somebody who has done it all, Jerry Garcia. Another thing he said was that drugs have to be useful to you but you can't let the drug take over. But some drugs you can't fight. But it is also wrong, I believe, to be put in jail for putting something in your body that you choose to put in it.

So in conclusion, I think everything should be legal, free of any legal repercussions while out of public, I don't think that everything should be widely available. For example, you wouldn't be able to buy heroin in a store, but an addict could get a prescription from a doctor and no one could be prosecuted and long as sale use wasn't out in the open. LSD should also not be available at a store, simply because there will be many more people than now with no idea what they are getting themselves into. Recreational/spiritual drugs should be separated from prescription drugs (mj would be sold as if it were recreational and people could obviously use it medicinally if they need be and probably cheaper than what a prescription could offer, but I could be wrong). Marijuana would be sold at coffeeshops that are licensed by the state and small personal growing ops would be allowed. Perhaps a slight tax for growing your own, since it there would be a small marijuana tax. I'm sure they have similar laws if someone is growing their own tobacco.

If you want to know my specific opinions on certain substances then pm me, as I am always happy to share. I apologize if I have
already violated the no other drugs policy but I would like to say that I mentioned those to substances to illustrate the limits of my idea and where marijuana would fit into the whole picture.

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I do not believe in state interference with matters like this. Can the state stop me drinking insecticide which is hundred times more harmful than any MJ I've smoked!!!

Remember: EDUCATION, NOT LEGISLATION

HappyMan

Most drugs should not be made available for consumer purchase. Without naming them, some drugs do pose a threat to personal and public health. While these drugs should remain illegal, I believe that no one should go to prison for the having small amounts. Mandatory rehab and personal counseling would go much further in reducing use.

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The Stoned Philosopher

Legalize all drugs and tightly regulate hard drugs. And educate the masses properly of drug usuage.
There is nothing wrong with doing drugs as long as you do them in moderation.

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Conine

Legal, yes. Available for purchase over the counter, no.

I guess when I say legal, I mean legal in the sense that you aren't prosecuting someone for posession or sale. Confiscation and fines aren't ideal, but they're worlds above terrorizing citizens with incarceration. If you do a crime while on a drug, you're held accountable just as if you were sober. This eliminates the excuse that they can't be legal for public safety's sake. Because really... having it legal or illegal doesn't stop that. People still drive drunk although alcohol is illegal. Society has accepted that being drunk is not a get out of jail free card for criminal activity.

Barrett-9317

As long as it's legal to grow, possess, sell, and smoke grass, what more could you want? Even if every drug under the sun was legal, I'd still touch nothing more than my precious Colombian skunk, and maybe an occasional glass of wine. I guess I just don't go in for those hard drugs. I've seen what they can do to people. As far as substances are concerned, Mary Jane is the only gal for me. Am I wrong?

m.t.ness

all drugs should be completely legal for recreational or medical uses. if any drug is kept illegal a black market will be created to deliver it to its users. if you can only get drugs by getting a prescription then those people who dont want to get a prescription will look for it on the street. and they will find it. i disagree with mandatory treatment. forcing someone to go through treatment is not something we should do in a free country.

Mamabudz

I disagree.

The chief difference between cannabis and every other drug is that every other drug can be consumed to a toxic and lethal amount.

There is no historic record of marijuana fatality from over dosage through inhalation or ingestion due to the toxicity.

Fatalities, addiction and negative reactions have been reported with every other pharmeceutical, narcotic and "drug" whether legal illegal prescription or street.

As you claim, there will be a black market for other drugs. There always has been, there proabably always will be becasue that is the nature of the human animal. But now the black market is a bit smaller, and no longer includes a non-lethal product taking time, energy and resources from treating the addicitve and deadly drugs on the street.

And treatment does work. Treatment available from qualified individials and provided to all regardless of ability to pay. No one goes out one day and says I want to be a junky. It happens. People self medicate to feel good. People get curious and experiment and get hooked. People feel down on themsleves and figure what the heck, it makes things nothing for a litle while and that's better then feeling the hell they are living in. That's the problem that has to be treated.

And if they have a kid, then you bet that treatment needs to be mandatory!

But again. weed is not the problem. I have found that some of the best parents smoke (maybe just a hit on new years or at a concert or on vacation).

But the cycle of addicition that brings most folks into the drug courst on non violent drug charges need help getting their lives back on track, need help getting their lives cleaned up and need some constructive boundaries in which to make those changes.

As for forcing someone to go through treatment not being something we should do in a free country, that person has given up certain liberties by doing an action that has gotten them arrested. A "non-violent" action but one that has drawn the attention of to themselves that they or another is/might become risk.

That is the same cause for involuntary admittance for psychiatric evaluation. Sounds like mandatory treatment is the humane manner in which to handle a human experiencing an addicition or drug induced psychosis.

Mamabudz

Some of you may know that there is legislation in Michigan, Ohio and Florida to allow non-violent drug offenders to choose treatment over incarceration for first and 2nd arrests , (and beyond at the discretion of the judge).

Now Ohio and Michigan have kind of okay laws, pretty lenient...but Florida? wow! draconian

SO especially for Florida sounds great right?...

In Florida there is one BIG problem....

Seems that Governor Bush's adminsitration had to cut $349 billion (yeah that's billion with a B) from the budget for the year and weel they closed all the treatment programs for the poor.

So you see, now that amendment will be a "get out of jail free" card but ONLY if you can pay for treatment ~ think it runs about $10,000 or more (gotta check that) so there go all the african american and latino's into the prison population on minor drug offenses, cause they CAN'T CHOOSE to take treatment...

And that makes them loose voting rights...

Did you know that Florida has the same percentage of folks who can't vote because their privilege has been taken through imprisonment....as Russia in the former Soviet Republic?