2010-02-09, 12:58 PM
People, the point of legalizing / decriminalizing weed isn't about whether drugs are good or bad for you, because there is only one conclusion about that: drugs are bad for you, period. Alcohol, Nicotine, Cannabis, etc, they all damage your health in some degree.
The point of legalizing / decriminalizing weed -IS- if it is good for your country as a whole. The major advantage of legalizing softdrugs is the drop in small crimes. When softdrugs are illegal, like now, they still exist, if you like it or not, and the prices are insane high. Addicts of these softdrugs need to have their "trip" every x time, forcing them to buy the product for insane high prices. And there comes the problem, when you don't have money enough as an addict to buy your "savior product solution", you need to get your money from somewhere else, and in a LOT of cases this results into small crime.
By making the product available in a legal way (not the supermarket off course...), you allow these addicts to get their products for a low price, and keeping them away from forced small crimes. Another positive side effect of distributing these softdrugs in controlled legal central points in cities, is that addicts who want professional help to quit their addiction, can go to the same place and ask for this help if they want to.
Also, never forget, by keeping softdrugs illegal, the problem will -NEVER- go away, -EVER-... The only thing you keep alive with it is the small crime and the illegal drugs traffic circuit, and a lot of desperate drug addicts who can't help themselves most of the time, who stay in this vicious circle of misery...
So yeah, legalize it in a professional way!
The point of legalizing / decriminalizing weed -IS- if it is good for your country as a whole. The major advantage of legalizing softdrugs is the drop in small crimes. When softdrugs are illegal, like now, they still exist, if you like it or not, and the prices are insane high. Addicts of these softdrugs need to have their "trip" every x time, forcing them to buy the product for insane high prices. And there comes the problem, when you don't have money enough as an addict to buy your "savior product solution", you need to get your money from somewhere else, and in a LOT of cases this results into small crime.
By making the product available in a legal way (not the supermarket off course...), you allow these addicts to get their products for a low price, and keeping them away from forced small crimes. Another positive side effect of distributing these softdrugs in controlled legal central points in cities, is that addicts who want professional help to quit their addiction, can go to the same place and ask for this help if they want to.
Also, never forget, by keeping softdrugs illegal, the problem will -NEVER- go away, -EVER-... The only thing you keep alive with it is the small crime and the illegal drugs traffic circuit, and a lot of desperate drug addicts who can't help themselves most of the time, who stay in this vicious circle of misery...
So yeah, legalize it in a professional way!