Legalise "Illegal" Drugs? - Page 89

jaysay · 23-01-2013, 18:28

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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

You ever thought of starting the NDA (National Drugs Association)? It's just your argument for the legalisation of illicit drugs is very similar to that of the NRA (National Rifle Association) of the United States of America.

Maybe you could use one of their slogans, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people' to Drugs don't cause crime, people cause crime' after all addicts have been knw to turn to crime to service their habit.

Your wasting your breath BG

susie123 · 23-01-2013, 18:30

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

How about telling them it might kill them?

They just wouldn't listen. If they are in a mind to do it they think they are immortal anyway.

Boeing Guy · 23-01-2013, 18:33

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

How about telling them it might kill them?

You know what Gordon, if fools want to risk their lives with illicit drugs, well that's life.
I have absolutely no sympathy with any so called Illicit drug overdose/poisoning 'victim'.
You are in charge of your own destiny, if you are too stupid not to inject,take substances or even inhale things that you have obtained off 'some bloke in the street etc' then that's your own lookout.

There are many people who are victims of the illicit drugs trade, it's about time society bothered about them instead

Boeing Guy · 23-01-2013, 18:34

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Your wasting your breath BG

I know Jay, every few months, he likes to bring this subject back up.
Why........

cashman · 23-01-2013, 18:38

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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

I know Jay, every few months, he likes to bring this subject back up.
Why........

Perhaps to try n drive others away?

walkinman221 · 23-01-2013, 18:38

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

5 kids killed by drug called PMA - which is not real ecstasy anyway.

This would not happen if drugs were legal and the whole cloak and dagger element was taken out of drug taking.

This drug PMA takes a long time to come on so users take more and more because they think it's not working, then they are hit by the lot.

Drug deaths: Five die after taking ecstasy - Mirror Online

If you think legalizing drugs will remove "the cloak and dagger element" your dafter than i thought, is alcohol not legally sold ? it still doesn't stop "the cloak and dagger element" making dodgy spirits etc and trying to sell them to the public for example Dodgy vodka could cause blindness - Local News - Hastings and St. Leonards Observer which is one of many cases if you look for them so legalized goods are still under scrutiny from "the cloak and dagger element" for the sake of a quick buck

barba crescit caput nescit for some folk

Gordon Booth · 23-01-2013, 18:44

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Originally Posted by susie123

They just wouldn't listen. If they are in a mind to do it they think they are immortal anyway.

True, susie. I was told when I was a lad driving like a mad thing might be bad for my health. I knew it couldn't happen to me so I carried on
And it never did happen-well, just the once and it wasn't my fault, honest.

jaysay · 23-01-2013, 18:59

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Originally Posted by cashman

Perhaps to try n drive others away?

Ya he won't be happy until the lights go out on accy web, we've already lost a few members, good members too

Restless · 23-01-2013, 19:09

Aspartame is something that I often look for in drinks. It's mention in this thread is out of place(it's a replacement for sugar not a stupid drug that makes you dance to crap music and hug people) I agree with what I have read about it, and the dangers apparently associated with it I certainly do not want to be drinking it. Was also reading that there is evidence that when a woman is pregnant and consumes a lot of it the chances of birth defects rises

DaveinGermany · 23-01-2013, 19:32

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

This would not happen if drugs were legal and the whole cloak and dagger element was taken out of drug taking.

Really ? You don't seriously believe that do you ? Let's say for arguments sake drugs are legalized, government would demand a heavy levy in taxes, same as with ciggies & booze. So what does Joe & Josephina Public do, speak to the fella down the market / Pub who's bringing in kit from the "continent" because it's cheaper & there's a willing market, plus he's making a tidy profit. So his profit margin is maximized guess what he'll do, yep, cut it with other she-ite !

Druggies keeling over & dying up some filthy squatt, backstreet or even some penthouse because they wanted their fix on the cheap & someone was out to make a profit ! Where's the difference ? Drugs are illegal for a reason & that my friend is the B-all & End-all of it.

Eric · 23-01-2013, 19:42

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Originally Posted by susie123

They just wouldn't listen. If they are in a mind to do it they think they are immortal anyway.

I am immortal. I was there at the Big Bang. I will be there at the Big Crunch (if there is one).

Matter can be neither created nor destroyed. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

But I don't seem to have much energy right now; must be the joint I smoked.

But it really doesn't matter whether or not drugs are legal or illegal in the developed world. There will never be any shortage. Anyone who wants them can get them ... and there are no licensing hours

Unless you are mickeymousing grams, chances of getting busted are pretty slim. The poor sods I feel sorry for are the ones living in Central and South America in the middle of the unwinnable WAR ON DRUGS. So a few thousand innocent folks die every year just so that western political leaders can look and sound good ... who really gives a damn, eh.

davebtelford · 23-01-2013, 20:20

I don't know the answer but I suspect that de-criminalising drugs (with appropriate supply & treatment regimes) could reduce the harm they cause to users and to the rest of society.

Personally I would like to have guilt-free cannabis as an option to some of the pain killers the medics dish out.

Boeing Guy · 23-01-2013, 20:38

Even Nelson Mandela is getting in on it!!!

And here

Boeing Guy · 23-01-2013, 20:39

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Originally Posted by davebtelford

I don't know the answer but I suspect that de-criminalising drugs (with appropriate supply & treatment regimes) could reduce the harm they cause to users and to the rest of society.

Personally I would like to have guilt-free cannabis as an option to some of the pain killers the medics dish out.

I refer you to post 1330, by a donkey

davebtelford · 24-01-2013, 16:26

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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

I refer you to post 1330, by a donkey

#1330 - Let's say for arguments sake drugs are legalized, government would demand a heavy levy in taxes.

You are assuming this to be correct with no evidence and ignoring my caveat about appropriate supply & treatment regimes?