Do you think that legalizing soft drugs would solve a lot of problems.  Take the value out of the product !?
445562
Ive done a few research papers on this subject. It would clear out a lot of prison cells yes. Also, it would reduce some crime, regulate it making it safer. You could also tax it and make profits off of it that way. Just for short.
1067168
Certainly...we are just not as educated in this area.\nThe government would hate it as would the doctors and pharmacists. If we start using natures pharmacy..they have no way to control the costs and uses. How could they regulate it? It's all about money and control instead of what's probably better for us.
43359
No, we aren't winning.  For every ton of drugs they stop 10 more tons get it.  For every dealer they take off the street there are 10 more willing to take his place.  There is too much money to be made in the drug trade for it to ever be gone.  It's a waste of money and resources that could be better used elsewhere and figure out a better way to deal with it.
988779
Why stop at prostituion, drugs and all that....lets just drop all the laws...maybe theft against anyone with a million bucks should be legal too?
966489
Possibly. Why don't you just using drugs?????? Clean up your act.
527788
For profit.  Most of the products are from consumer choice.  It would get supplied anyway on the black market if the product was outlawed completely.  See Prohibition.\n\nCars kill people everyday also.  Do we stop making them because of that?
59910
Billions of Dollars is spent worldwide to treat people with mental disabilities and cancer and other diseases caused by drugs. What is the point in legalizing them and kill more people?? Even drug addiction affects the offsprings or your children and their children.\n\nAlso the smoking cigarettes, cigars; I would recommend to be banned.
983736
Wow -- already destroyed so many brain cells that you can't spell legalize ... their ... \n\nOBVIOUSLY, you have not yet realized the problems associated with an addictive and dangerous substance -- don't we already have enough problems in society already with the substances that are used (even alcohol and tobacco -- both cause death/serious injuries or harm to those who DO NOT use them).
321201
anyone who uses needs to get a life...drugs are only a crutch for those too weak to face reality. This world doesn't have space for drugged up losers. They don't call it dope for nothing..what a waste of time, money and a human life.
12839
No. Honestly... its more "is this product worth $X to me." As for the whole sweat shop idea.. i think its alot of misinformation. The third world already has enough trouble attracting investment and exporting its goods we shouldnt boycott them when they can make something we find useful.
703206
And prescritpion drugs aren't harmful? That's why the drug makers have to announce all side effects of a new drug. Putting anything in your body that was not there in the first place is harmful. But it's not about that.... It's about money!! The government is making billions off of lobbyists, kickbacks and exorbitant costs to consumers. The drug war is a profit machine.
746333
yes!!! the effects from "weed" are far less than the effects of alcohol, if it was legal it would free alot of space in our prisons, where they are placed for a non-violent crime, and i believe it would cause alot less people to use harder drugs! and people who need it for medical reasons wouldn't have to go thru all the garbage they need to now for relief!!!
1178570
Most definitely, but not in a paranoid sense. Its human nature, heirarchy, divine right. Humans are a crafty sort, when you group the crafty rich ones together, they realise how much they enjoy their lives walking (or in some cases steam rolling) over humanity. I personally believe that were all being slowly poisoned in one form or another, with the pharmaceutical companies and medical sector to benefit... check out knowmore.org and look at bayer and dow's track record alone... (The part about toxic/carcinogenic chemical legislation is scary) have a bucket and towel handy. But to answer your question less rhetoricaly, the over-population crisis is and has been slowly spiraling out of control without any form of boundaries. What better culprit than cancer to take care of that problem?  (oh, the rate of cancer a hundred years ago compared to now would definitely support that)
527944
Yes, prostitution should absolutely be legalized; let local governments decide if they want it or not and handle it either through ordinances or zoning laws.  Same thing with drugs - decriminalization or outright legalization would allow governments to raise revenues that could be spent on treatments and public health action, and would take away a source of more violent criminal activity that supports these illegal trades.  There's no reason these things should be illegal, and every reason they should be legalized.
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It's great fot drug smugglers and dealers, and it's good for the law-enforcement industry (and it IS an industry).\n\nApart from that, it's largely ineffective.  \n\nLegalization would drive prices down; taxation would regulate usage and fund treatment for  addicts.  And just think of all the prison cells vacated for violent criminals!
1000592
no. You are causing more problems by selling drugs, and the people you sell them to, will need your charity too. You need to do something healthy, cure a problem rather than cause one.
439623
Health Care is a big problem for me, I have no health care and am a diabetic. I don't take all the medicines that I should to help control it because it is so expensive. It should be controled at worst so that it don't get so out of hand as it is now. I think it might help the research end because there would not be as huge a profit to just treat a disese. It would be better to cure it.