Should all drugs be legalized?

[Big Money]

A flesh-eating drug that turns people into zombie-like creatures seems to have made its way to the United States.

This extremely addictive injectable opioid is called krokodil (pronounced like crocodile) or desomorphine. It's so named in part because users report black or green scaly skin as a side effect.

This weekend five people were hospitalized in the Chicago suburb of Joliet, Illinois, with symptoms similar to cases reported recently by health care providers in Arizona and Oklahoma.

Dr. Abhin Singla said he suspects a woman he treated this weekend was suffering from krokodil addiction. Singla is an internist and addiction specialist at Joliet's Presence St. Joseph Medical Center. The patient lost significant portions of her legs, he said.

"It's a zombie drug -- it literally kills you from the inside out," Singla said. "If you want way to die, this is a way to die."





http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/health/krokodil-zombie-drug/

 

[Damocles]

Apparently making it illegal hasn't stopped it.

 

[Big Money]

Apparently making it illegal hasn't stopped it.

Laws against murder and rape haven't stopped those crimes either.

 

[Damocles]

Laws against murder and rape haven't stopped those crimes either.

Yet you seem to be making the connection here. How does making it illegal help? As murder is an action against somebody else, while drugs are something you do to yourself the "crimes" are not the "same thing". Is it the government's place to protect you from your own decisions?

 

[/MSG/]

Laws against murder and rape are punative, not preventative.

 

[Big Money]

Is it the government's place to protect you from your own decisions?

Did I say it was?

 

[Damocles]

Did I say it was?

Can you answer the question?

 

[anatta]

OP mentions:

addictive injectable opioid

so sell fucking morphine, and this problem goes away.
Along with heroin. and a shitload of perscription pain pill abuse.

can't sleep? here is lorazapam, for you - you need more? sure here you go. Sorry all out of Seconal.

The problems with drug abuse are LARGELY ( not all) the fact that drugs are illegal, and restricted.

The concept of the functional addict (alcoholic) should come to mind here.

 

[Big Money]

The problems with drug abuse are LARGELY ( not all) the fact that drugs are illegal, and restricted.

Krokodil, heroin, molly, PCP, cocaine, crack and meth are largely problems are because the drugs are illegal?

 

[Yoda]

Simple answer to should all drugs be legalized "HELL NO"

 

[/MSG/]

Simple answer to should all drugs be legalized "HELL NO"

Care to elaborate?

 

[anatta]

Krokodil, heroin, molly, PCP, cocaine, crack and meth are largely problems are because the drugs are illegal?

heroin was addressed, an opiate.
The rest are designer drugs, or coke , I am convinced legalization of drugs in the Physicians Desk Reference , would largely marginalize those.

There isn't a perfect answer, the situation we have now is the worst of both worlds

 

[Yoda]

Care to elaborate?

Whats to elaborate really DP Im against legalizing hard drugs, im against legalizing weed and I think cellphones should be against the law to be used in cars for anything. They kill more humans than alchohol behind the wheel.

 

[Lorca]

Legal does not equal unregulated.

At its most basic tho....why should they be illegal? Does the user infringe on the rights of anyone else just by 'using?'

What are the reasons, besides gratuitous moralization? (And I'm not saying there aren't reasons....just looking for ones that dont have to do with...'drugs are bad!.' Many things that are legal are bad when 'abused.' There is a difference between use and abuse.)

 

[/MSG/]

Whats to elaborate really DP Im against legalizing hard drugs, im against legalizing weed

So I take it then that you support the increasing militarization of police, and the continuation of the War on Drugs even though it has NO EFFECT in stopping drug use?

I think cellphones should be against the law to be used in cars for anything. They kill more humans than alchohol behind the wheel.

[Citation needed] Also, you'd have to outlaw doing anything other than driving. No talking, no radio, no looking around at the sides of the road...

 

[Truth Detector]

Legalizing drugs is a bad idea for many good reasons; pot? Why not?

 

[/MSG/]

Legalizing drugs is a bad idea for many good reasons; pot? Why not?

Such as?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

who owns your body? YOU or the government? that's what this is all really about. the governments premise is that they own, support, protect, and babysit you because you are not able to do it yourself.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Laws against murder and rape haven't stopped those crimes either.

drugs are something people chose to do to themselves. Murder and rape are something people do to OTHER people. There is a huge huge difference.

IF someone commits a crime under the influence of drugs, then they should not be able to use the drug use as an excuse for their actions.

 

[Big Money]

who owns your body? YOU or the government? that's what this is all really about. the governments premise is that they own, support, protect, and babysit you because you are not able to do it yourself.

Is that the rationale of statutes prohibiting the manufacture, cultivation, sale, possession, or use of all drugs?