Soderlund |
03-05-2013 11:32 AM |
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Originally Posted by jamison20000e
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I want to agree Alcohol and Tobacco should be illegal, with others, but only because weed is (and safer than some). Without hypocrisy and irony how could I prove my point? That in a uneducated sea of almost seven billion ("law keepers" too) what you speak is fundamentally impossible and will make things worse (unle$$ your a warden++)! The ( changing) goal (for many still) is to "survive"(\kill) but that is also not possible, nothing lasts forever...
Reread or read the thread please (as if I'm one who should say that lol)
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Should we not strive for perfection even though it is unattainable?
Prohibition and the war on drugs failed because we weren't heavy-handed enough. People are so concerned about their civil liberties that they'd rather have pedophiles and drug dealers running around. When it is widely known that some people are into bad things but society can't do anything about it because their "rights" may be violated, then it's just pathetic. Look at the state of Mexico for example. Cleaning up in society should take precedence.
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What you say is true, but if you look at the trends of evolution a species also must improve over time by removing it's weaker species and leaving only its stronger species to breed. If you bring this into the equation; the only members of the human species that will be drawn to addiction or harmful habits will kill them selves and actually be doing man kind a favor by making way for the stronger members to reproduce. Then again, maybe the substances won't affect our survival at all, we're not the only species that enjoys an altered state of consciousness.
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Ah, social darwinism. That's true.
It's not just the addicts, though: the drug trade finances organized crime. That would no longer be a problem if we legalized it of course (because then the drug dealer would be superfluous), but that would be to give in to it rather than to win over it.
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2. The implication that marijuana can end the human race would make good turn of the 20th century propaganda film.
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Cannabis alone will hardly cause our extinction, but what possible good can come out of it? (Disregarding medical marijuana, which should obviously be legal but require a prescription.) The best argument is that it doesn't have drawbacks if used responsibly, but people do use it irresponsibly.
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