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Originally posted by Lebell
As an example, opium and it's derivative heroin, were legal for a very long in the East and West (you could buy heroin over the counter in a drug store). As governments saw the devastating effects these two drugs had on generations of people THEN they made them illegal.
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Look at gin in the early 20's, It was bigger than heroin is now, and it's legel,
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So if you want to know what would happen if these drugs were made legal again, just open up your history books, or alternatively, pick a drug and find out what does happen in those parts of the world where they are still legal.
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Alright pick a drug, lets start small, in fact lets start with a drug we all do, oxygen, it makes us slower, burns our lungs slowly, and it's morbidly addictive. Point here is that everything is a drug.
Next one, Alcohol, it's legel, it's abused, it's way way worse for us then pot, and the government makes tons from it.
Next one, pot, it's illegal, the government makes tons of money from it by staging a 'war on drugs' so that they can keep a war economy and spend vast amounts of money to enforce the superfluous rules.
An other side effect, pot becomes a gateway drug, people go to thier dealers and buy pot, then they know the dealers and since the drug has it's own community becuase of the fact that smoking it is 'rebelous' the members of that venerable community end up trying harder and harder drugs, all becuase of it's illegality.
One more side effect of pot that would evaporate if legalized is that people who get perscribed pot for medical purposes wouldn't have to resort to buying it on the streets when the supply from the government falls apart.
Next shrooms, these, when not smoked arn't really that bad for you, they are addictive in high doses, I've only ever heard of one person going to rehab for it, a friend of mine who was doing then every other day for a while, thing about then is that after you come down you feel really dirty and you don't want to take them again, which is good becuase you build up a tolerence fast.
Next Acid, and really anything harder. these are the ones that we all agree are bad, they will fuck up your life no amount of justification could overcome the facts on these, schedule I drugs, the worst. Thing is, the people doing them are going to be doing them with or without the law, so if there were legal then the government could enforce some quality control to the drugs and people dying from dealers cutting the meth with rat poison would still be alive and have a chance at life. Also, we could set up FUNCTIONAL rehabilitation centres, insteed of the half assed methadone clincs of today.