Legalise Drugs??

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Maybe not you but why do people start then? You're not trying to say the only reason people start taking drugs is the very fact that its illegal and they think its cool? Thats an incredibly naive viewpoint. Is that the reasoning behind why you think drugs should be lagalised? What if you wanted a couple pills for a music festival or a line or charlie for a party? Not saying YOU would but you are not representative of the 60 million people that inhabit this hellish little island!

Actually no mate, I was an A&E nurse for years and saw the futility in trying to stop it first hand & for the last 5 years I have worked for one of the biggest companies involved in supplying maintenence therapies for addicts.

 

[warsaw]

No what I'm suggesting is that he might feel he can't be arsed after all

 

[lost in london]

well there would be a dealer who could provide it cheaply for the kind of people who want a casual fix and who don't want to visit the doctors. there will always be a black market

Exactly, and this thread is turning into utter nonsense, why would the government give them away free when this measure would not reduce the consumption and the health / behaviour problems it causes, and would cost them in the production / purchase of the drugs to enable them to give it away free?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I`m not for or against drugs to be honest but something which has always stuck in my mind is when someone once said if any other government policy had had so much time and money thrown at it.....with so little or obvious change it would have been pulled decades ago.

 

[butchy]

Actually no mate, I was an A&E nurse for years and saw the futility in trying to stop it first hand & for the last 5 years I have worked for one of the biggest companies involved in supplying maintenence therapies for addicts.

Ok you are talking about hard drug users where controlled and legal prescription of these substances could be a good idea.

I am talking about casual drug taking of E, coke, etc etc. You have experience in this field but I am a 19 yr old who goes out a lot to festivals, club nights, etc and who knows loads of people who dabble frequently in the recreational scene and I know how EASILY they can get hold of it. We're talking about 2 totally different things here

 

[Crezhell]

How do you imagine this is controlled at the moment? Are you saying that as it is we are dealing in any way with the core issue?

i wasnt suggesting it was controlled by anyone, i was merely questionning the person i quoted that if this argument about it being made legal actually occurred how exactly the supply of drugs would be controlled and by whom.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Ok you are talking about hard drug users where controlled and legal prescription of these substances could be a good idea.

I am talking about casual drug taking of E, coke, etc etc. You have experience in this field but I am a 19 yr old who goes out a lot to festivals, club nights, etc and who knows loads of people who dabble frequently in the recreational scene and I know how EASILY they can get hold of it. We're talking about 2 totally different things here

This is correct. Most people on this thread are talking about herion addicts. Smack is on a totally different scale to recreational drugs like pills and coke. Legalising herion would probably work, legalising all drugs wouldn't.

 

[Questions]

in twenty years, if drugs were legalised, instead of a pint in your friday lunch break, it would be a quick jack up at your desk, that could be the norm.

sickening thought.

Still preferable to drinking any Creamflow bitter though.

 

[dougdeep]

Still preferable to drinking any Creamflow bitter though.

Good point, well made.

 

[mattb]

it's a laughable argument. laughable.

 

[mattb]

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laughable.

 

[Juan Albion]

This is correct. Most people on this thread are talking about herion addicts. Smack is on a totally different scale to recreational drugs like pills and coke. Legalising herion would probably work, legalising all drugs wouldn't.

That's the problem with this whole thread. You can't just lump everything together in one go as if there is one blanket answer to 'all drugs'. Now there might be a case for legalising certain drugs, but when I left this discussion earlier, no-one had attempted to define what should and what should not, which made it a rather stupid conversation afaic.

 

[Vlad the Impala]

Actually no mate, I was an A&E nurse for years and saw the futility in trying to stop it first hand & for the last 5 years I have worked for one of the biggest companies involved in supplying maintenence therapies for addicts.

Hang on, you were an A&E nurse for years and saw the futility of trying to stop it? How does that work, then? What did you see, precisely?

Seems to me you may well have been in a good position to see the extent of the problems that drug use causes, but it is a huge leap to say that gives you any more valid insight into the best way to deal with it. In fact I think you may be too close to the problem if anything.

How exactly will legalizing the problem help? Surely the best way to get people into rehab is to offer it as an alternative to a criminal sentence? Carrot and stick. . . Take away the illegality of drugs and all you are left with is hoping that counselling will persuade people to sort themselves out. Some might, I suspect most won't (and why should they if it is legal?), which would mean even more ending up in A&E.