Answering the Libertarian argument for drug legalization

[AceArcher]

Originally Posted by hawgsquatch

Did you see my little drug registrant rant...That is a dramatization of the system in Germany. The problem I have with using the Germans or the Dutch system is those problems they had a while back.....six million of them.

I am loving this drama. I am going to hop back and forth across this fence just to see who smoked out today and can't tell the difference or who reads the first line of a post and then freaks out.

Seriously, my community has been destroyed by illegal weed and the meth and heroin that come with wanting to double up on the profits. We have weekly murders and home invasion robberies in a town where the biggest problem used to be poaching deer on the golf course. This is because weed is worth so much and that is because it is illegal.

I would legalize it simply to take the money out of it and raise my children to hate anything that captures one so.

I don't buy the BS about it being beneficial or a miracle cure because that is just addicts trying to legitimize their poison. Alcoholics claim they get benefit from their drugs too.

Addiction is defined as doing something that you know can or will harm you. If you insist on smoking weed when it very well might cost you a job or take you away from your family, you are an addict.

Poking out my eyes with a flaming rhinoceros horn is bad. Does that mean that poking out my eyes with a nice clean new needle is good? Quit justifying your craving and just vote about it, and admit your addiction honestly.

Why does reality suck so bad we want to create an alternative? Maybe we should create a better reality, lets start by reducing government.

anybody catching any fish.........?

Easy there Hawg... someone is going to accuse you of rational thinking any second.

Realistically your right on the money.. the more you criminalize something that people do to thier own body. Then the more negative impacts there are going to be to everything.

I hope your wrong about there not being pharmacological value to the cannabis plant. I will leave it at I have some hope in some of the studies that i linked earlier (again in the page 1-4 or so range) (the british, israeli studies, the information about sativex (or whatever its called) and the video by gupta)

Perhaps these results might come to late to help my mom... but maybe they will help people in the future suffering from brain disease's like alzheimers.