Legalize All Drugs?

[eric]

What about legalizing them but companies don't mass produce them?

I think the main problem is that people are going to jail, getting fined, and having their lives destroyed by this stuff.

[The Comrade]

it's my opinion that drugs should be legal, yes. but i didn't make a post in this thread trying to prove to others that my opinion was correct, YOU DID. aside from talking to southern dad about the problem with stoned drivers and testing all i did was say there wasn't any evidence that indicated your assertions were true and i asked you to provide some data other than anecdotes and hypotheses. literally any data. you didn't even try to find bad data. you've just flat out refused to back up what you're saying and are getting upset when i don't accept your assertions as fact.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/20 ... -portugal/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/eur ... 91060.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... -legalize/
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/ ... is-system/

here are some facts regarding legalization and decriminalization though. usage has gone down, not up. here is empirical evidence to the contrary of your claims.


i've backed my claims up in this thread, including the off-topic bit about hunter-gatherers. why is it my fault that you haven't done the same?

[exploited]

[uebermann]

[Philly]

Actually legalizing prostitution would solve almost all problems associated with it, unless you think a business transaction that results in a guy getting laid is inherently problematic.

[John Galt]

the price of sex is low enough that prostitution would be low anyway, even if legal, in western society. in other more sexually repressed societies, societies that don't use widespread birth control or where women aren't empowered, it would be a much much bigger thing

[uebermann]

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[Philly]