Milton Friedman explains why drugs should be legal.
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They should be legal.
They should be legal.
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I think drugs should
I think drugs should absolutely be legal. People don't not do crack because it's illegal, they do it because it fucks you up. Generally someone who doesn't do drugs now won't do it when it's legal (in fact by removing the taboo aspect you can argue it reduces drug use)
The drug war is ridiculous. Simply the cost to taxpayers, etc. that could be used for enterprise or business or education is being used to stop people from doing what they want to their own bodies. Listen, I don't care if you inject meth up your asshole, as long as you don't hurt anyone else in the process by all means go for it.
An in response to arguments saying drugs cause people to be violent, etc: that would also mean alcohol, knives, guns, etc should be illegal too. Driving or hurting someone under influence of drugs should ABSOLUTELY be HIGHLY illegal, but otherwise usage alone does not warrant arrest
Just as a principle, I think
Just as a principle, I think you should be able to do whatever the hell you want as long as you don't hurt someone else in the process
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(was it the word drugs, or the picture of 2 girls kissing?)
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Friedman and Sowell are
Friedman and Sowell are beasts. Seriously, I can't believe that the shitheads that I went to school with have never heard of either of these two.
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I'm pretty sure the two girls making out in the thumbnail gave it away
Well for those of us that, you know, actually have jobs I didn't think typing an extra 4 letters would hurt anything.
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happypantsmcgee
^^Video above is NSFW just fyi
I'm pretty sure the two girls making out in the thumbnail gave it away
Well for those of us that, you know, actually have jobs I didn't think typing an extra 4 letters would hurt anything.
Happy, my bad. Gonna edit it and hopefully you have a better day :)
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By the way, maybe I missed
By the way, maybe I missed something but can someone help me understand why making drugs illegal causes drive-by's killing innocent kids in the slums and 10,000 more homicides a year? I started to get lost when we got into that.
ermeni wrote: By the way,
By the way, maybe I missed something but can someone help me understand why making drugs illegal causes drive-by's killing innocent kids in the slums and 10,000 more homicides a year? I started to get lost when we got into that.
I think his point was that the illegal drug trade leads to many more 'random' acts of violence than there would be if there was no need to commit illegal acts in order to profit from the sale of drugs.
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Fully agree with friedman.
Fully agree with friedman. Make it legal and tax the shit out of it ! There is so much income to be made by taxing these goods. It would tremendously weaken the "black economy".
However there should be restrictions. A country being known for drug tourism is not good (netherlands anyone ?). The dutch hate the fact that people just go there to smoke up, there are so many other things to do there.. (red light district.. oh no wait thats bad too... :P) Maastricht is considering allowing only dutch citizens to purchase drugs in coffee-shops to calm down the germans and belgians going there only to smoke up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/world/europe/18d...
ermeni wrote: By the way,
By the way, maybe I missed something but can someone help me understand why making drugs illegal causes drive-by's killing innocent kids in the slums and 10,000 more homicides a year? I started to get lost when we got into that.
Did't you hear about all the killings in mexico due to gang-related drug wars ? These events might not be occurring in the US but they are still relevant to the problem.
^^I don't know how long that
^^I don't know how long that will last if and when they see a huge decrease in tourism dollars. I know that there is a shit ton to do there outside of smoking in coffee shops but I think they underestimate the amount of money that comes from the tourists that go there to smoke and do other things. Not to mention there are a shit ton of little restaurants and stuff that would close in 2 weeks when this goes into effect (wokaway for example).
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ermeni wrote: By the way,
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i'm cool with drugs, as long
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