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skullbone67

im gonna be completely honest, no i dont want it to end

i am addicted to pot, but if it werent illegal i wouldnt smoke it

 

knifer420

I said no because thier are alot of stupid people out there that don't need to have thier hands on drugs. Like people 12 and under!

Stephanie S.

I'd like to meet the people who voted "no" face to face and give them a lilttle bit of info. Perhaps the like having their tax dollars squandered away on an unwinnable war.

peace

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Buzzby

This is definitely not true. Forty percent of violent crime is committed by people high on the most popular drug of abuse - alcohol. This is according to research gathered by the Justice Department.

Alcohol and Crime

To a lesser extent, crimes are committed by people high on meth or downers. It seems that a lot of criminals need something to skew their judgment or reduce their anxiety before committing a crime.

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Buzzby

Why would you think that "those individuals" don't have access to mind altering substances now? Drug availability is ubiquitous, especially ethyl alcohol, a drug well known to induce people to commit violent crimes and drive in a homicidal manner. If we try to look over the shoulders of three hundred million Americans to police their behavior what we have is a police state.

If half the money spent on drug interdiction went to realistic education, treatment, and maintenance programs, I believe there would be a net decrease in drug abuse. The people whose lives are so uninteresting that they're likely to become abusers are probably already involved in the use of drugs that blur the edges of reality. Legalization would just give them other options.

Another thing that would reduce net harm would be the migration of users of dangerous drugs, especially alcohol, to the use of Marijuana, a drug with no toxicity, no adverse physical effects, a low potential for addiction, and a much lower potential for inducing people to commit violent acts. I know many people who drink heavily who would much rather use Marijuana if they didn't have to be able to pass drug tests.

I want to keep the legalization of marijuana and the legalization of all drugs as separate issues. The former is a realistic possibility within the near future, the latter is not.

 

Buzzby

That's very amusing, perhaps astute, but completely untrue. The Harrison Act of 1914 made strong opiates and cocaine illegal to sell without a prescription.

Mr-Blunt

Of course, thus they can legalize weed

jewishjake420

The war on drugs should come to an end, but there should be some restrictions like cigarettes to marijuana.

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Broliette

"The U.S. government estimates the cost of the War on Drugs by calculating the funds used in attempting to control the supply of illegal drugs, in paying government employees involved in waging the war, and to satisfy rehabilitation costs. This total was estimated by the U.S. government's cost report on drug control to be roughly $12 billion in 2005...From the perspective of decreasing the prevalence of the use of drugs, the War on Drugs has been an abysmal failure."
*source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs

My quick searching showed it costs around $20,000 - $60,000 a year to house an inmate; depending on the state.

Yeah, I think it's time the budget for the War on Drugs to get a drastic cut.

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Wickedclownz26

Wow.
Of course the war on drugs should end
too much money spent.
And drugs are still around...
So what is it doing?


-clownz-

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