"War On Drugs" has failed.

[norwaysaint]

Whether or not drugs should be decriminalised is a tricky one but I'm still not sure why people seem happy at the moment to have some harmful and addictive drugs like alcohol and tobacco legal and taxed, but others, arguably less addictive and harmful criminalised.

 

Where do people stand on this issue? 1976-Child inferred earlier that he thought things in America became worse after prohibition ended. Would you bring it back? And if not, why not? Alcohol is as addictive and harmful as most of the illegal drugs, if it were invented today, it would certainly be made illegal.

[dune]

it is...I could not imagine walking around west quay, or gun wharf and people openly trying to sell you kilo blocks of dope, coke, crack.

 

There used to be a bong shop in Ocean village that sold herbal highs and other crap. If that shop was still there last year they'd have been selling "plant food" aka M-cat which was strong as f/ck.

[scotty]

There's little point debating this. It will never happen, too many people are just too scared, hysterical and well, thick, to have even have a rational debate about the pros and cons of decriminalising drugs.

 

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Despite the hundreds and hundreds of billions spent on 'the war on drugs', despite the thousands of dealers and police killed, the millions of addicts and the countless crimes committed to fund users' habits around the world we still get politicians and voters choosing to keep on fighting the war. mental.

 

Absolutely.

 

If we called off the battle, we would win the war. Simple as that.

 

76 Child has spoken several times on this thread of his hatred and contempt for illegal drug dealers. Under the current system in this country, they will always exist because of the basic laws of supply/demand/pricing. We could simply bypass them by legalising drugs for existing users, and hopefully help them get off them because we would be able to identify them and offer assistance. And if they cant or wont get off them, we could at least supply their needs without forcing them into crime to fund their habit. The "No drugs=no addicts=no problem" approach has failed for at least fifty years now, its time to look at it rationally.

[dune]

C.S.Lewis, one of the greatest ever authors (it was travesty what hollywood did to his chronicles but that's another rant) and liked opium and he was in the process of writing what is reported would have been his greatest work when high. Apparently a door to door salesman called round while he was in full flow and destroyed the moment. I would imagine that many of the most creative minds throughout history have been off their heads.

[scotty]

C.S.Lewis, one of the greatest ever authors (it was travesty what hollywood did to his chronicles but that's another rant) and liked opium and he was in the process of writing what is reported would have been his greatest work when high. Apparently a door to door salesman called round while he was in full flow and destroyed the moment. I would imagine that many of the most creative minds throughout history have been off their heads.

 

Good point.

 

Aldous Huxley wrote about heaven and hell, and the doors of perception, when he took mescalin. William Burroughs wrote some of the most interesting stuff I ever read while he was on heroin, and as for Hunter S. Thompson......