Friday, May 7, 2010

controversial question

Should marijuana be made legal for recreational use, and regulated like alcohol and tobacco?
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  1. SophiaMay 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM

    There is something that I find frightening about the extent and the violence of the crackdown on drug addicts. The speech used, the means employed, are really those war. When governments everywhere, show such repressive unanimity, isn’t it our duty as citizen to at least ask questions? Could it be, for example, that we are repeating the mistake of alcohol prohibitionists whose remedies have caused more deaths than the harm that they want to fight? Everything about drugs deals with our unconscious, and it is precisely because the emotion it allows all manipulations that we must ask such questions.
    In war, there are two adversaries who are struggling to win one to another. However, the addict does not threaten anybody, he certainly errs on the path he has chosen, but it does not oblige anyone to follow him, the addict does not force anyone to take drugs. We are the ones, by force weapons, that want to impose our own way of life. So, I wonder why this persecution? Why ban drugs if here can’t be any rational justification to ban the production, marketing and consumption of drugs? There is no moral reason .There is no economic reason. The persecution practiced by our leaders doesn’t concern reason. In our society that is secularized, the persecution of drug users is a religious persecution.
    The legalization of drugs is crucial to transform what is a murky and bloody traffic in a transparent market. The competition between suppliers would also bring the prospect of reduced toxicity of the drugs. Thus, we can hope that laboratories, when they have the right to do research on these products, will soon find a way to reduce the addictive drug. Another welcome result for the outright legalization is in the prices that would get lower, freeing the addict from the need of delinquency in other to purchase expensive drugs. Less toxic and less expensive means a consumer can usually keep his job and his salary will satisfy his need

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