Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us (From DEA.gov)

In 1987 Swiss officials permitted drug use and sales in a Zurich park, which was soon dubbed Needle Park, and Switzerland became a magnet for drug users the world over. Within five years, the number of regular drug users at the park had reportedly swelled from a few hundred to 20,000. The area around the park became crime-ridden to the point that the park had to be shut down and the experiment terminated.21


This is simply an absurd argument, because the only reason more people tended to congregate there when drug use/sales was permitted was because it was illegal everywhere else. Use might have been higher in the park, but at the same time it would have been correspondingly lower at where the people were from. They offer absolutely no proof that the decriminalisation of drugs in the park recruited a significant number of new users.
 
How is it not a victimless crime if you grow your own and smoke it in your own company or with friends once in a while? I prefer to learn things from non-biased sources, they missed so much information out of that.
 
Correlation does not prove causation. If the majority of heroin users attended public school at one time, is it safe to say that public schools turn people into heroin users?

I'm actually against marijuana use. I think that little good can come of using it. I also think that greater harm is done by imposing harsh penalties on users for what is basically a nuisance and also creating a criminal black market.

And you sure as hell don't need to publish scare tactics and use shaky, alarmist research as the bulk of your evidence.
 
you know, when i saw the topic of this post, I was honestly expecting to see an article about how the myths about marijuana (i.e. the myth that it is a horrible and dangerous drug) were having a backlash on the DEA because so many people are finding out that its a load of crap and decide that if thats a lie, then everything else they propagandize must also be. How naive I was.


//Moracca
 
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