Drugs YOU think should be controlled

[fiendwithoutaface]

education limits to try drugs would be incredible

 

[purple_cloud]

That would suck am under 18 that means I would not be able to get my drugs I am very responsible and never to stupid shit or anything I would regret when I am high so I think I should have the right to use drugs. I agree though If anything then everything should be. So since most of the good drug's(not all) are controlled I think Tobacco and Alcohol should also be controlled and not just regulated.

That is what everyone underage says. When I was under 18 and smoked cigs, I was pissed as hell that I couldn't buy them myself, and up until a little over a year ago I couldn't legally purchase alcohol either. Just because you are "responsible" there's a LOT of others your age who are not mature enough, and a limit has to be set somewhere...you can't "evaluate" each underage person and make sure they are 'fit'...it's like alcohol and tobacco, age limits help keep everything uniform. Plus, drugs can be more harmful to those younger and still growing, and seeing as even you would need parental consent to go on a school fieldtrip, I don't think a "parental consent" form to use drugs is really going to be something that worked out.

Also, you may not really seem to have an understanding of 'controlled' v 'regulated'. I would be very pissed if I needed a script or something just to go to a bar --- unfortunately both of those things have been legal and acceptable for much of the US's history, so I doubt we'd see a change in either of those (although they are sorta trying with tobacco).

I don't know really how I stand on the topic, and Dankycodone I think you're cool, but I feel like everyone your age has the same response. I just wanted to toss my $0.02 to all those reading whom may share your opinion.

 

[chrisinabox]

No drugs should be illegal, i don't care how neurotoxic or cardiotoxic or addictive or bad for you it is. People should be able to choose what they put into their bodys.

 

[mav3rick]

If alcohol and tobacco are legal, then every other substance should be as well. The population over 18 should have a choice, whether it's good or bad, it should be the consumers choice. It comes down to freedom and rights. Especially since the devestating terror attacks we've seen world wide, our freedoms and liberties are being threatened and are diminishing!! Personally, it both scares and angers me..

The main reason that illicit drugs are not legal is because Governments can not control the production and distrobution which means they do not make money. Simple. If the Governments had control over the drug industry as they do over tobacco and alcohol you'd see more anarchy in my opinion, Governments would hike prices up, people who made it themselves would be incarcerated or fined, it'd be a disaster.

I think it should all be legal, but perhaps there should be an industry body seperate from the Government that determines certain legislation regarding what society calls 'harder' drugs (heroin, methamphetamine, etc) such as age limits, over 18 or over 21. I think driving under the influence of ANYTHING should still be 100% illegal. I don't think selling (to people over the legal age) or production should be jail worthy. The legal system throws people in jail longer for transporting 10kgs of marijuana than they do for someone who ran over a child whilst speeding, I just do NOT understand it..

So, to conclude. My opinion is it's all legal or all illegal. It can't go on the way it is, therefore something has to change. When the quality of life gets threatened, people do extraordinary things.

Exit56, you're spot on! I totally agree..

Much love, Mav

 

[Lady Codone]

Drugs should be controlled based on the threat they pose to an individual's health and to society's overall functioning (drug-related crimes and such). On that front, I'd say these should be controlled:

Methamphetamine
Alcohol
Datura
Inhalants
Barbiturates
Potent synthetic opiates (fentanyl-like types)

Basically, if all naturally-occuring plant-based drugs were to be legalized, that would be a step in the right direction. The absurdity of outlawing a plant is just insulting, and most have been used for thousands of years with little/no burden to society. Plus, being able to go to the corner store or coffeeshop and pick up some exotic shrooms, killer bud, peyote cactus or even poppy pods would likely cut down on peoples' desire to seek out dangerous-but-legal alternatives like research chemicals, alcohol and DXM.

 

[CyberShaman]

I think all drugs should be legal and most, if not all of them controlled.

I think we should be able to buy things like mephedrone, meth, heroin and cocaine but in a controlled manner. This would include things like age limits, quantity limits, maybe buying at certain qualified facilities where they would have someone trained/certified to go over the substance with you and have you sign forms stating that you understand the risks associated with the use of the substance. Kind of like picking up a Rx at the pharmacy. This way when someone on the tail end of a meth binge comes and and he's obviously cracked out they can refuse him service.

Perfectly put. Thank you, very much.

 

[Shnargoff]

I think that the country should just be anarchy , and I can move into the wilderness, smoke a bunch o f peyote and live off the land

 

[CyberShaman]

I think that the country should just be anarchy , and I can move into the wilderness, smoke a bunch o f peyote and live off the land

Some of us are perfectly capable of doing just that.

 

[daysonatrain]

Why only natural? Belladonna too?

What about synthetic versions of natural drugs? Or extracts like cocaine? Or if those reports of amphetamine being found in trees are correct? That should become legal?

i know my view is kinda contradictory and i dont expect people to agree with me. i dont think law should have any control over a natural product, and belladonna should be legal. ive never heard of this tree amphetamine your talking about.

and i dont necessarily think that opium (a natural subastance) is better than some of the man made chemicals (2c's, mdma and a few others). but i dont see how a govt can regulate a thing that grows in nature. i know, i know, all chemical processes all boil down to "natural" means, just my opinion i guess. to me this just seems like something that is out of a govt's control, its a plant.

believe me, i know all the arguements that can be made out of this, just my opinion.

 

[chrisinabox]

^i know Sassafrass trees are used to make MDMA i believe.

 

[daysonatrain]

haha, yes, one of the base ingredients of mdma is sassafras (pretty sure) but i would hardly consider it a natural thing... and like i said, i already know that all chemicals can be broken down and broken down until you reach a natural substance. my point is that i dont believe plants can be made illegal... anyway, i wont keep going with this.

 

[chrisinabox]

^i agree, plants should not be illegal, none of them! and the same goes with chemicals IMO, whether synthetic or semi-synthetic. just because something is natural, it doesn't mean it is safer, so there is no point in believing "natural" drugs are safer, and "synthetic" drugs are bad. that argument makes no sense. there are good and bad of both and all kinds.

 

[R3v3r53]

Haha one line comes into mine reading this debate. Im paraphrasing here...

"Lets acually look what i did here, i took some plants, that grow in the ground, i picked them up and crossed an imaginary line, and they became illegal."

Something like that from the movie Blow. I agree with most of the posts, especially with alchohal. Its insane, when i visted my ex-GF in rehab, EVER SINGLE person over 35 was there for alchohal, i mean this shit destroyed their lives, one guy was even in a fucking wheelchair. Its sick. Bah whatever, like said before, if the goverment cant find a way to make money off of it, it will never become legal. I dont think anyway.

 

[8L4YN3]

The only restriction that should be placed on drugs is an age limit, so kids can't buy them.

But apart from that, they should be legal and available to everybody who chooses to use them.

I agree because even the drugs being illegal dosn't stop us from using them whenever we want just turns us into criminals.

 

[Shnargoff]

Some of us are perfectly capable of doing just that.

o i know, just spoke with someone tonight who has, and it sounds like a hell of a time... where do i sign up

 

[mav3rick]

Hahaha, isn't sassafras the BEST word ever!

 

[chuchu]

Alcohol should be strictly controlled imo looking at the toll it has impacted on mankind since its commercialisation one wonders how much more misinformation and half truths people are actually willing to take before drastic measures are put in place.

 

[skinnyDog]

nothing should be controlled. free will, free market, buyer beware, bla bla- but i gotta agree with people that booze is an evil fuckin drug-and i seen alot more people do stupid, damagin shit, than i have ever done, or seen done, with a bag of diesel

 

[gorgoroth]

Darvocet and Tramadol, because they suck so much, curse on bullshit 'opiates' like them.

 

[chrisinabox]

^haha agreed ;P

though i think you forgot loperamide off that list, that is if you can even call it an opioid. heh.