A J
AJ, I'd vote for you man :-)
Some really well well made and articulate points,
good on ya.
If drugs are legalized will drug usage increase or decrease?
It may peak after the first year or so of legalisation but then it after the initial period of curiosity it would level out.
THe thing to remember is that were drugs legalised then it would bring far less health problems to users as
A J
wrote in his post
No what kind of sane person would want to do this if your going to legalize it why don't the government just give it to the kids for free so they don't have to pay for it.
naw, i think you're just trying to stir some sh*t with a comment like that
It's totally irresponsibile to give drugs, actually any drug, be it weed, tobacco, magic mushrooms or alcohol to a person who's body has not reached full development. Society deems that age to be 18, 21 in some countries, and indeed 16 in some other countries.
Plus it's the government, if they can't even make public transport free they're hardly going to give a substance away for free when they can earn extra revenue by taxing it.
I put a link to a documentary in an earlier post, I'd urge people to watch it. Most of the commentators at the end of the movie agree that legalisation will happen, it's really just a matter of time. I hope it comes sooner rather than later, because I don't want to be 50 years old and having to buy my weed off some ******* criminal and run the risk of being arrested for smoking a substance which has absolutely no proof whatsoever of being harmful.
A point they make in the movie is that if marijuana were harmful we would certainly have seen the effects on society by now and we haven't