U.S.-Canadian Ecstasy Drug Ring Smashed

[guards]

The transactions surrounding the sale and aquisition of many items - legal and illegal have killed many many people.

The death is about greed and survival... not the drugs.

So, by that logic, we should legalize the sale and possesion of stolen goods as well?

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

. If you made them legal, INTERNATIONALLY, you might have a chance at stopping the violence.

The - light - goes - on.

Now stop railing against drugs and start blaming the govenments that create the culture of violence, poverty and imprisonment surrounding drugs.

 

[guards]

The - light - goes - on.

Now stop railing against drugs and start blaming the govenments that create the culture of violence, poverty and imprisonment surrounding drugs.

Which government doesn't fall into this category? I think you may be petitioning for a utopia that just cannot exist.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Every time a thread goes through these same arguments, the question that keeps coming to mind is. What if the FDA/DEA suddenly made tobacco and alcohol illegal or the same status as steroids?

I'm sure we can link a significant number of "side-crimes" to alcohol. How many can be linked to tobacco? What would people do to obtain either of those substances? How many would spend years in jail because of them?

Laws are arbitrary lines drawn in the sands of time.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Which government doesn't fall into this category? I think you may be petitioning for a utopia that just cannot exist.

Legalizing drugs is far from a utopia.

btw, saying 'it can't be done' is a nice philosophical way to justify never making any progress and protecting entrenched interests.