Should drugs be legal?

Hello, I live in Canada where we are in the process of decriminalizing marjuana. This would be mean that it would be similar to alcohol or cigarettes in that stores would need a license to sell it, and could only sell to people over a certain age. I personally think this is a great idea because it will help destroy almost all gangs source of income, it will make marjuana safer by controlling what can be added to it and it will make money for the government. This started me thinking wouldnt it make sence to decriminalize all if not most drugs. This would stop alot of the problems in countires such as cocaine by giving farmers a legal source of income, make drugs safer and stop all drug related crime. Now while I know some drugs can be very dangerous and hazordus to your health so is smoking and it is legal. I think as long as proper rules are placed around them it could work very well. What do you guys think about this?

another reason for people to become idiots.. now instead of only have drunk drivers, we're gonna have a **edited** load more high-drivers... nothing will get done.. and grades will drop.... meaning no more inventions... actually a stop to all technological advances... sounds great huh?

^^^^^  Now, I fully agree that it isn't your right to screw up my life.

But there is a balance - everything we do affects other people.  We just have to find the balance.

adrenalinejunky wrote: if thier lives were the only ones they were screwing up i MIGHT agree with you... as it stands, i don't think its a good idea.

 

Where is the sources you get your information from? Many, many more people are killed by drunk drivers every year than by people under the influence of drugs. The most harm that comes from drugs is associated with the person taking those drugs. Drug use has many different sources, not just from 13 year olds. I agree with arresting those who sell drugs to minors; however, placing a limit on what I can and cannot do with my body in my own free time is ludacris.

So your saying that drugs have no physical effects on people like maybe make thier reactions reflects slow or make thier vision impared. Have you ever taking a health or biology. The fact is that drugs can impare vision, can cause hallucinations and can cause reflects to be slow. Putting all that together what if a person got into a car in that state of bodily presence, its just a crash, hit and run or self injury waiting to happen. There's no logic in thinking that drugs won't effect people driving cars, motorcycles or people who are operating machinery. As I said before its just a death or serious injury waiting to happen.

Edited by ScarFace22

Ok you could have made that point more clear from the start.

I think pot is one thing (even though I dont do it), but legalizing cocaine and stuff would be bad...

i see absolutly no problem with legalizing marijuana. if you do some research on it, it used to be leagle but they made laws against it because of people being afraid of "pot smoking mexicans" there was a stereotype that all mexicans smoked the stuff. so they made laws against it to try and prevent them from moving in next door

I think they hould make the drug laws the same as alcohol laws so you will be hled resposible for what you do while UTI and will get arested for being so while driving and similar activities. The whole thing about drugs being illegal is creating a sort of forbidden fruit effect. They say we can't have it, so we have to get it. If it was fine to just have thme people would stop thinking it's so cool because it would no longer represent being bad.