Talks of Obama legalizing marijuana? so what? And I doubt it,
give me some source indicating that.
It is definitely legal in Netherland, does that mean we should
follow them?
drunk people are irritating. We can still deal with them as long
as they don't do incredibly stupid things. Drug addicts are
harmful. If they stay one corner and smoke their weed, no one will
really bother with them. But more likely than not, they are
unemployed because their addiction makes them very inefficient at
their job, as they are very stoned.
And they are so addicted they they will do stupid and harmful
things. Like rob a bank, or deal drugs to other people, in order to
get some drugs.
It is evident that drugs and it's withdrawal effects is harmful
to society. Very harmful, more than that of macdonald's and smoking
and alcohol.
If you want to fight for individual freedom and step away from
totalitarism, go fight for the rights of gay people or something.
arguing in favour of drugs is not the way.
Well firstly, if we wish to better deter people from using drugs
we should follow the Netherland's drug policy as
they have a relatively low rate of drug use compared to coutnries
with much harsher laws such as the UK and United States.
As in the case of alcohol vs marijuana, it has been shown that
alcohol is worse for your health, has a much higher potential for
addiction and does cause violence in some. Marijuana on the other
hand has no physical addictive properties, isn't anywhere near as
bad for you and does not incite violent behaviour in those who use
it.
It is only a small percentage of drug users in general who do
get addicted and do harmful things and as for the withdrawal
effects, withdrawal from alcoholism is much worse than withdrawal
from heroin, I know this from the personal experiences of a friend
who is an ex-police officer who had to oversee addicts.
From your post it is obvious that you know little, if not
nothing about that which you are arguing against, ask any police
officer in the world and they will tell you that a drunk person is
much more dangerous than someone who's stoned.
Having said all this, your argument has no basis and relies on
the usual scare tactics employed by anti-drug propaganda by
painting drugs as completely addictive, violence causing items of
death.
