Should all drugs be legalized?

[patriot66]

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?

But who ends up paying for this, taxpayers

 

[Phantasmal]

But who ends up paying for this, taxpayers

So, you would rather pay for prisons, police to enforce drug laws, and trials, prosecutors, etc?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

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

don't know, don't care. the only power that the government has over it is in the commerce. personal manufacture, possession, and use is beyond their constitutional authority.

 

[Phantasmal]

But who ends up paying for this, taxpayers

http://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/drug_policy/

 

[Big Money]

don't know, don't care. the only power that the government has over it is in the commerce. personal manufacture, possession, and use is beyond their constitutional authority.

How many statutes prohibiting personal manufacture, possession, and use have been successfully challenged on those grounds?

 

[patriot66]

So, you would rather pay for prisons, police to enforce drug laws, and trials, prosecutors, etc?

No I would rather they not use drugs, how is that, if they become addicted, chances are they aren't going to be able to work, then because in this case they lose their legs, we pay for medical, and psychological help in rehab, no thanks

 

[cancel2 2022]

I have never been able to understand why they can't just buy up all the poppies in Afghanistan and use it to make codeine, opium, morphine and heroin. It was Americans that turned much of Afghanistan into an infertile semi desert only suitable for poppy growing.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

How many statutes prohibiting personal manufacture, possession, and use have been successfully challenged on those grounds?

the courts are wrong. rubber stamping laws based upon personal ideology instead of the limits of the constitution is modus operandi for the judicial system.

 

[Big Money]

the courts are wrong. rubber stamping laws based upon personal ideology instead of the limits of the constitution is modus operandi for the judicial system.

Does your answer indicate that no statutes prohibiting personal manufacture, possession, and use have been successfully challenged on those grounds?

 

[Big Money]

I have never been able to understand why they can't just buy up all the poppies in Afghanistan and use it to make codeine, opium, morphine and heroin. It was Americans that turned much of Afghanistan into an infertile semi desert only suitable for poppy growing.

I think the subsidy scheme has been tried, Tom.

 

[Phantasmal]

No I would rather they not use drugs, how is that, if they become addicted, chances are they aren't going to be able to work, then because in this case they lose their legs, we pay for medical, and psychological help in rehab, no thanks

Yes, but not everyone is perfect like you, and the cost of rehabilitation and care is less then the cost of arrest, trial, and incareration.

 

[Big Money]

Yes, but not everyone is perfect like you, and the cost of rehabilitation and care is less then the cost of arrest, trial, and incareration.

Cite comparative statistics, please.

 

[patriot66]

Yes, but not everyone is perfect like you, and the cost of rehabilitation and care is less then the cost of arrest, trial, and incareration.

That is a B.S answer, so you are saying that because they couldn't control themselves I have to pay for it. That is not a very good position.

 

[Lorca]

That is a B.S answer, so you are saying that because they couldn't control themselves I have to pay for it. That is not a very good position.

If it wasnt against the law, you wouldnt have to pay for the cops, prisons, courts.

 

[Phantasmal]

That is a B.S answer, so you are saying that because they couldn't control themselves I have to pay for it. That is not a very good position.

It isn't a bs answer, so you would rather pay for their incareration?

 

[Phantasmal]

If it wasnt against the law, you wouldnt have to pay for the cops, prisons, courts.

He means rehabilitation and treatment for overdoses.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Does your answer indicate that no statutes prohibiting personal manufacture, possession, and use have been successfully challenged on those grounds?

does your statement indicate that you believe the courts are the final arbiter on the constitution and it's meaning?

 

[wanderingbear]

No.not all drugs.Just pot.Obviously not krocidll or crack.

 

[Big Money]

If it wasnt against the law, you wouldnt have to pay for the cops, prisons, courts.

Just think of the savings if rape wasn't against the law.

 

[Big Money]

does your statement indicate that you believe the courts are the final arbiter on the constitution and it's meaning?

Did I say that?