SPUNK said:
In most in most cases its valid and truthful to say that the government should not have a say in goes into a person's body....
i dont think this is the case with meth, and I dont think our culture would benfit at all from it becoming legal.
the masses in america are too stupid to handle the risks associated with meth use...making it legal serves no positive effect on our country
One of the underlying themes in my posts to this thread is that attempts at limiting and/or eliminating methamphetamine has been a complete failure. Not only is methamphetamine widely available, but it is also completely
unregulated, is accessible by anyone (including children), and contains large quantities of unknown contaminants (whose health impact has not been scientific assessed).
Still further, one of the serious side effects of this completely unregulated black market is the existence of illegal meth labs. The are no zoning laws, no product quality standards, no FDA certification, no quality control, no distribution control. The nightmare made real of a totally and utterly unregulated pharmaceutics laboratory, staffed by unqualified people, and without any mandate to follow federal safety guidelines. With the result being an ever present danger of exposure to highly toxic chemicals, by a public completely unaware of the existence of the secret lab in their own neighborhood.
That is what Prohibition has created, a world far more dangerous than a regulated one. An utter lack of control, and a guarantee that the resulting high black market prices will insure an endless stream of criminals willing to make a fast buck in the illegal drug market.
Prohibition has promised to eliminate a problem, and in reality it has caused an explosion of the problem. We have almost 100 years of prohibitionist history to demonstrate that the policy is a total failure, and results in a black market with a high degree of secondary crime.
I don't know about you, but I would rather that methamphetamine was legally available to those who wanted it, than have my children be unknowingly exposed to toxic chemicals from a hidden meth lab somewhere.