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nanofever · 05-21-2004, 07:37 PM

The government has no business regulating morality. Drugs have no inherent harm and thus have no business being regulated. I'm for the government de-regulating every drug imaginable. Drugs will lose their mysticism and become less popular. The money from the drug business will be nill and gangs will lose their funding. Prisons will be free of drug offenders and hopefully, violent offenders will not be released without causation.

This being said, I don't think the government should tax the sale of drugs. However, I'm willing to accept that harm if the advantage is all drugs are classified as tobacco/alcohol.

As to the claim that people will have their lives destroyed and such, the government does not exist to play nanny on social issues. If it did, alcohol would be abolished for destroying lives, and on that note, prohibition is a great model for my argument. Alcohol is made illegal and gangs fluorish. Alcohol is made legal and the funding for gangs dies and shortly after the gangs also die.

05-21-2004, 07:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
nanofever Huzzah for Welcome Week, Much beer shall I imbibe. Location: UCSB	The government has no business regulating morality. Drugs have no inherent harm and thus have no business being regulated. I'm for the government de-regulating every drug imaginable. Drugs will lose their mysticism and become less popular. The money from the drug business will be nill and gangs will lose their funding. Prisons will be free of drug offenders and hopefully, violent offenders will not be released without causation. This being said, I don't think the government should tax the sale of drugs. However, I'm willing to accept that harm if the advantage is all drugs are classified as tobacco/alcohol. As to the claim that people will have their lives destroyed and such, the government does not exist to play nanny on social issues. If it did, alcohol would be abolished for destroying lives, and on that note, prohibition is a great model for my argument. Alcohol is made illegal and gangs fluorish. Alcohol is made legal and the funding for gangs dies and shortly after the gangs also die. __________________ I'm leaving for the University of California: Santa Barbara in 5 hours, give me your best college advice - things I need, good ideas, bad ideas, nooky, ect. Originally Posted by Norseman on another forum: "Yeah, the problem with the world is the stupid people are all cocksure of themselves and the intellectuals are full of doubt." Last edited by nanofever; 05-21-2004 at 07:40 PM..