<p>You could say the same for alcohol.
Should alcohol be banned?</p>
<p>And anyway, you have to explain what making it illegal solves. It’s not like a law against it banishes meth from existence. People will still find ways to sell, get, and use it, making it illegal just makes it infinitely more likely that violence and theft will be used to distribute and acquire it.</p>
<p>Think about if meth was completely legal to sell and use. You don’t think the stability of having a legitimate company to buy from wouldn’t help lower crime rates involved in meth? Having regulatory standards would also make it much safer and cleaner, reducing the damage done to people. When was the last time you saw a nicotine addict hold a store at gunpoint to get cigarette money?
And what’s more, if you make it legal and legitimate, for-profit meth dens could be opened, for people to go to a safe place with people protecting them and others while they get high. How is this worse than the current situation?</p>
<p>Oh, and meth labs. Make it legal, and you run the nutjobs who put others at risk in basement meth-lab explosions out of business by allowing educated scientists and engineers to produce safe meth in safe settings.</p>
Alcohol is good for you in small/moderate doses, is ingrained in our culture, and would cause popular outrage from being banned. It is the rampantly irresponsible use of alcohol that causes more crime; it is the mere use of crystal meth that does worse.</p>
<p>Hahahaha hypocrite. Surely you at least support the banning of rum and whiskey? I mean, most people who drink whiskey do so to get drunk, hey they could get behind the wheel <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>I HAVE YET to hear you give a positive argument as to why banning it helps anything at all.</p>
<p>And also on your last point; you’re incorrect. The simple use of crystal meth is harmless since no one is being harmed against their will. If a meth head beats someone up on the street or something, that’s different. Similar to how guns don’t kill people, people kill people.</p>
<p>Recognition of any sort of responsible drug use is completely impossible for so many people…they all just assume anyone who does drugs is completely mentally and morally deficient, when there are many people who use all sorts of drugs (yes, even ones that some people consider horrible) and are completely successful - you just don’t see them do it. There are, believe it or not, successful, productive people who use heroin and meth and who are not addicted (in reality only about 10% of people who ever try an addictive drug become hardcore addicts that hurt others around them). I have seen these people and many of them are my friends. They harm no one with their habits, they are not addicted, they take breaks to prevent intense damage. This is the reality for MANY, many drug users, including myself (though I’m not into heroin or meth, I prefer psychedelics/MDMA/stims/weed).</p>
<p>I’d just like to insert the point that if all drugs were legalized, it obviously wouldn’t be a free-for-all…there would be age limits, and one certainly wouldn’t be able to drive legally under the influence. Coming to work high would be like coming to work drunk - while not perhaps illegal, it would probably be grounds for being fired. It would most likely be like how alcohol is, but just with other drugs.</p>
<p>I’d like to reiterate a question someone asked previously - if all drugs were legalized tomorrow, would you do them? Most of you probably wouldn’t, and the ones that would can get drugs the way people do now. There are very few people in the world that want to do drugs but are only stopped by their illegality factor. In all honesty if you use drugs responsibly (which can be done and which is very similar to using alcohol responsibly) your chances of being caught are very slim. The fact that drugs are illegal doesn’t stop too many potential users.</p>
<p>I’m not really planning on arguing hardcore over this, however. I can tell that no matter what I say, people will still equate drug legalization with atomic bombs and bestiality. Nothing anyone says, ever, will change that. My experiences with drugs have taught me that if nothing else.</p>
<p>Aren’t you basically doing that by killing them for meat? </p>
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<p>Any evidence for your assertion that there’s a causation?</p>
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<p>"They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom! "</p>
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<p>I did it out of my own convenience. But, fine I’ll summarise it for you. </p>
<p>In such a society, everyone will be insured. If X takes something of Y, Y will call his PDA (private defense agency). What about if X also has a PDA? Well, they’ll most likely go with a arbiter. Why? Because “wars are very expensive, and X and Y Defense agency are both profit-making corporations, more interested in saving money than face”. The firms will already have contracts which will include what will happen if a dispute arises.</p>
<p>Dusterbug - that was hilarious. I’m a girl, though for all you know I could be totallyyy sketch :P</p>
<p>And you can do whatever you want with your body. Drugs are still available. And if you know the right people and how not to be an idiot about it, it’s pretty hard to get caught in all honesty. But it would be a lot safer for the general population if drugs were legal.</p>