Poll on position for legalizing drugs

How legal do you want drugs to be?

  • Execution or life sentence for all illegal drug users and dealers.

    Votes: 7 2.1%

  • Execute or life sentence for all drug dealers.

    Votes: 22 6.5%

  • Ban alchohol and tobacco, maybe even caffeine

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Keep the drug laws the way they are

    Votes: 21 6.2%

  • legalize Marijuanna for medical use

    Votes: 16 4.7%

  • legalize Marijuanna/individual drugs

    Votes: 65 19.2%

  • legalize most drugs

    Votes: 72 21.3%

  • legalize all drugs

    Votes: 135 39.9%
  • Total voters
    338
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I've been interested in seeing how the numbers will turn out, and it seems some others feel the same. Please vote for the position closest to yours.
 
If I smoke crack, I hurt no-one but myself. If I smoke crack and murder someone, I murdered someone. The crack didn't.

Disagree? Watch this:

If I drink too much whiskey, I hurt no-one but myself. If I drink too much whiskey and run someone over, I ran someone over. The whiskey didn't.

See how that works?
 
People have the right to do whatever they please unless it infringes on the rights of others. Government should protect people's rights instead of wasting its time and resources TRYING to protect people from themselves.
 
Dealing with the effects of letting people freely abuse whatever the hell drug they want to abuse would be vastly less costly than the current attempt to criminalize drug abuse.

There would be little if any increase in drug use if it were legalized since the current scheme hasn't managed to slow too many people from finding and using whatever drug they desire.

Legalization would drain a whole lot of money away from narco terrorists in Mexica and Columbia, and from Muslim terrorists in Afghanistan and Central Asia.
 
I'm part of the total legalization crowd. I'd be interested in why the "execution voter" thinks that drug dealers should be executed? I'd be interested to hear why someone selling a dimebag should be executed while companies that produce massive amounts of narcotics should be allowed to continue as normal.
 
And here is where it gets tricky

If i watch to much TV it hurts no one. If i watch to much tv i dont work and provide for my family.

If i watch to much TV it hurts no one. If i watch to much tv i dont work and provide taxes for my goverment.

The goverment feels it has the right to limit your freedom for the benefit of society at large. Ergo you have no true freedom if it hurts the USA .incs' bottom line.
 
I've never used an illegal drug in my life, and I voted to legalize them all. I find it interesting that I am presently in the majority on this poll.
 
Legalize 'em all. Their prohibition has led to more violations of the Constitution than any other plan in our history.
 
Legalize 'em all.
Sell them in a store.
Sign waiver forfitting state medical care for using said drugs.
 
Like most have said, people make the decisions, and do the stupid things not the drugs-alcohol whatever.
Legalize it all, then make people pay (dearly) for the decisions they make.

jojo
 
"Dealing with the effects of letting people freely abuse whatever the hell drug they want to abuse would be vastly less costly than the current attempt to criminalize drug abuse."

Unfortunately I have seen (second hand thank you) too much to believe this. The ultimate cost in both human suffering and financial resources would probably dwarf anything we have seen yet.
 
When I voted for total legalization I had really expected to be in the minority. I am pleasantly surprised.

Thing is, with legalization would come the requirement for some hard-line stance regarding drug users. First would be that an employer has the right to do drug tests, and terminate without potential repercussion those who fail the employer's standards. Same with insurers. You can use it, but we aren't paying for the problems that stem from it.

Likewise hospitals and public assistance. You use drugs? You better have a lot of money because nobody is going to take care of you, ie: You are not society's burden because of the life you choose. And if you die in the street because of your habits and your lack of ability to pay for the consequences, too bad. W e'll bill your family for planting you.

IF society could make hard choices like that, and stick with them, drug use would become a fringe lifestyle with little appeal to the masses and little influence on culture. Just too ugly a life for anyone with a functioning brain, no matter how lousy they perceive their lives at the moment. And that first generation after legalization would kill themselves off too fast to cost us much money, while serving as an example.

Cold and brutal but still a solid acknowledgement of Free Will and better than all the power we currently give government because of this non-crime.
 
Fine with me.

Dog: I had thought of the same but it would have to be done for alcohol and tobacco as well since they would all be legal.

Is that done now?
 
CannibalCrowley...

"Sure, as long as alcohol and tobacco users must sign the same waiver."

Will that also include those who use and abuse cholesterol?

What about those who consume excess calories and/or too many calories from fat?
 
Honestly I don't feel the government should pay for anybodies (military withstanding) medical bills for any reason.

I could agree with some sort of loan program to cover medical. Need a surgery don't have the cash or insurance get a loan.

I don't believe somebody should have to give birth in a bathtub because they lack funds I also do not believe they should get a free pass.

This may be how things are ran now I have very little experience with medical industry so I really don't know.
 
2nd Amendment said:
When I voted for total legalization I had really expected to be in the minority. I am pleasantly surprised.
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All the death penalty folks are just hung over and haven't felt up to voting yet.
 
Frankly, the War on Drugs is a failure of the grandest sort. Not only is it horribly expensive, but it has resulted in gross intrusions of our personal rights and liberties. At the same time, full legalization may not be the answer.

I am all for the following: legalization of any naturally occurring drug, i.e. if it grows, then it is fine so ling as it is used in that form. Processing the drug by drying, grinding, brewing, or any process similar to that used to process herbs and spices are aceptable. Any drug that must be synthesized, or processed through chemical means are to be classified as controlled pharmaceuticals, and will be controlled as such.

There, simple.
 
Legalize em all, I figures. The War on Drugs is too expensive and our prison system is full of guys who were pulled over with a baggie or two of pot.
 
Hit the wrong button. Move one from 'legalize most' to 'legalize all'.

Make people responsible for their actions, don't blame it on the drugs. IMHO, drugs are blamed, because someone doesn't want to put the blame on a person. Its not: 'drugs interfered with this person's decision making process.' No, the interference on the thinking process was choosing drugs in the first place.

If you do drugs, drink, whatever, and it doesn't hurt anyone, fine. What you do behind your doors is your business, not mine.

If you make a bad decision and murder, or rape or whatever, you get charged for murder, rape or whatever. You don't get to blame the drugs, and you don't get a second chance to prove you are an upstanding citizen. You take responsibility for your actions.
 
Organized crime won't let prohibition fail again. They have too much at stake.
john
 
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