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<p>I actually read it. Your synopsis didn’t make it any less imaginative.</p>
<p>^Um, there are actually two ways about it, lol. I assume it would be treated like cigarettes, which are not allowed to be advertised on TV. There does seem to be something a bit wrong with advertising drugs on TV (although prescription drugs are allowed to, which I also find a bit unsettling).</p>
<p>Indeed, I’m going to go with the hardcore libertarian/individualist view and say that all drugs should be legalized. It simply comes down to the fact that human beings should do to their own bodies what they wish, and that they may do what they want so long as they don’t infringe upon the rights of others.
Not to mention it would end a substantial amount of the hold of drug cartels, and the perpetual slave labor that they often take advantage of in Latin America.
However, I do think a license system should be put in place for the “harder” drugs, because allowing it to get out of hand could be very detrimental (case in point, Opium Wars).</p>
<p>Legal drugs would be commercialized. Commercialized drugs would be a form of mental enslavement.</p>
<p>Cigarettes are a perfect example. Get them addicted and they will shell out thousands of dollars every year because they’ve lost the ability to feel good without using your product.</p>
<p>I think the problem is people’s mindset on marijuana. Now I’ve never smoked pot and don’t plan to, but I have plenty of friends who do, who I think are doing it either a) to fit in or b) to rebel against their parents. My dad is from the Netherlands and as a result I’ve been there to see family a lot of times. There are marijuana stores just like there are cigarette stores here, but there is absolutely no pressure to have it. Either you want to have it, and that’s cool, or you don’t, and that’s cool too. My dad never experienced any problems with pot, never smoked it as a kid (once as an adult in the U.S., but whatever). Plus it’s illegal to buy off the street, so all of the pot that you buy, you can be sure it’s not laced with anything. I think it’s a lot safer, and it gets rid of the “let’s join the crowd” or the “let’s rebel” mentalities.</p>
<p>Have to agree with this giatns4210. As far as I know, in India, the addiction to smoking/drugs/alcohol is largely due to the penchant for being ‘cool’ and ‘joining the crowd’ and ‘being popular’ (although almost every person would strive to be popular at least once in his/her life). And I see the repercussions, some of my used-to-be-friends despise their parents for no reason at all, and there are brawls occurring every day or other. This doesn’t directly relates to drug etc. addiction but indirectly it’s quite visible - they are the people who are more likely to get into drugs etc. </p>
<p>So perhaps if we stop considering this a ‘taboo’, things will not be secretive, and as the former person said, will be a lot safer?</p>