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Originally Posted by Splintered
I think all drugs should be decriminalized, and that you should have control over your body.
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I agreed with many of your ideals (save for communism) up until this one. The reason I tend to stray from this thought-line is because it creates too many more problems in itself.
First of all you have to set regulations for age, as you probably wouldn't want 14 year olds going out to Drugmart to pick up some crack rocks from aisle 6. Next you have to measure what is acceptable in public. Do you really want crack addicts to be in McDonalds next to Betty Sue with her happy meal, blowing that smoke around? Second hand from cigarettes is one thing, but from crack, marijuana, meth, or other lovely drugs is quite different.
I know I wouldn't want to become impaired from operating a motor vehicle because Joe Shmoe is sitting next to me at the bar smoking weed.
Then is there going to be any regulation on making it illegal to be high in public? Or are folks on LSD free to run circles around Toys R Us on a bad trip?
Where would it be sold or how would it be properly delt? Would the FDA suddenly have the oversight of regulating coke production?
Seems like it would cause society to sink even further into the shitter if you were to legalize all drugs on a wide scale.