Do you think drugs should be legalized?
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Re: Do you think drugs should be legalized?
I probably seem like a holier-than-thou stick in the mud with this post, but when I was growing up my father used to take drugs. He and my mother were divorced, once he made the remark "I'm going to be a teacher, I'm going to teach kids how to use drugs." He committed other crimes, he was incarcerated 4 different times in my childhood, and when I was 11 I cut my ties. I haven't seen him for almost 12 years, apart from a piece in a local newspaper last year, where I learnt that he and his new wife were selling amphetamines and he was locked away again. What's more, he seems to relish his lifestyle. Now I know that this is all down to the individual's choices, but when your earliest memory of quality time with your father is being taken to a rave at 6 years old and seeing people injecting, it's enough to put you off even trying a cigarette for your whole life. I saw the path of self-destruction it can lead you on, and I think it's best these things stay illegal. My son will never meet his grandfather because of this, I would not want him going through that kind of thing.
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Your post is an example of where theory comes slap bang up against reality - well done for posting it & congratulations on coming through such a start in life.
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I mean, like I said if people want to use marijuana in their own homes then fine, I just wouldn't like the idea of it being around children. It was in the news recently, a 23-month old boy who died last year after swallowing some of his father's heroin... disgusting.
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His reasoning is too proposterous to even address...get a grip Eric Holder!...thank God you're days are numbered...
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I'm curious, because I'm not familiar with American law... what sort of drug would get you twenty years in jail? In the UK, carrying a small amount of cannabis for personal use would probably only get you a warning (depending on the amount), and my father only got five years for a combination of drugs and firearm offences. His wife got a suspended sentence. That was for possession with intent to sell, as they found scales etc.Loveabull wrote:Smoke for one's own personal use is fine, yeah it can dull random brain cells but it's also a blessing physically and mentally for centuries of humans. Alcohol and tobacco kill a whole lotta people every year and they are "legal". Heroin kills very easily, crack cracks all rational thought, and playing with dust can get you a nice padded cell. The problem at least in the US is "The War on Drugs"...you can go out and murder someone and maybe get parole in five years. If you get arrested for possession...for your own use...maybe twenty?...plus it's a felony so you aren't able to get federal financial aid or any assistance that can help you get your life turned around...nope, doesn't make any sense to me
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this " Uber Consumerism " mentality " of having to own multiple cars, mini mansions, and living off credit cards to buy stuff one can't afford otherwise, has contributed to this country's downfall...
when mom's have to work, the kids " feel it " in a very visceral way...no more sitting down together as a family every night for dinner...no time to cook, or put in the " time " necessary in raising a child...i recall a very popular phrase at the time : " the amount of time spent at home w/your kids is not as important as the QUALITY of that time "
yeah right!..........and the moon is made of cheese! gimmee a break..pure B.S.
of course the women's movement didn't help by encouraging woman to work outside the home for ( " validation " ) or the govt. handing out houses w/o down payments to " unqualified " buyers...
Balderdash!...
i say address the " root cause "............the drugs are only the " symptoms " reflecting our changes in daily life, values, etc. post the fifties............an important " shift " that screwed up everything...
our FOCUS should be on PREVENTIVE measures rather than the moot question of " punishment " or legalization which is not the REAL issue...........it strikes me as being " arse-backwards "...
but are ppl willing to give up that extra income?....hard to do when you're in debt up to your eyeballs because of past mistakes...
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