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Originally Posted by aceventura3
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Originally Posted by Deltona Couple
I am APALLED that ANY human being would even CONSIDER legalizing these drugs. Heroin and cocaine have HORRIBLE side effects, and are adictive drugs. That is just insane!
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1) these drugs have not always been illegal and people managed o.k.
2) the war on drugs has wasted billions of dollars and ruined the lives of countless people. The money and resource would have been better used on drug prevention education, treatment, regulations and controls.
3) if these drugs were made legal, I doubt usage would go up. It may go down.
4) regulate and tax these drugs. Perhaps we can get users off of the streets and in controlled settings.
5) what was the basis for some of these drugs being made illegal, while others are legal?
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Heroin and cocaine do have nasty side effects, however, those side effects pale in comparison to ALCOHOL.
Legalizing is almost a necessity, being in the addictions field I can tell you that the field is shrinking, in that tax money for rehabs is drying up, and 99% of addicts can't afford nor have the insurance coverage to pay for it. The field is moving towards corrections, meaning the only help for the addict will soon be prison. This will be a nasty cost to taxpayers because crime rates will increase and taxes spent to house and treat prison inmates will skyrocket.
Unfortunately, once an addict reaches prison, regardless of treatment, the chances for recovery are very slim, far less than if they have treatment before they get that far.
Legalizing and putting some of that tax money into rehab would help millions of lives.
As long as these drugs and others like marijuana are illegal, the more our tax dollars are thrown away in negative ways. That's fact.
One of the few things Ace and I seem to agree on 100%.
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