UK - Why do some people want drugs to be legal?

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By Nigel Farndale
6:50AM BST 12 Jun 2012

With reader comments

A few years ago it seemed unthinkable. But recently, public figures on both the Right and Left have called for the decriminalisation of drugs. What are they thinking?
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Yet in recent months there has been a shift in mood and politicians are no longer afraid to debate decriminalisation. Why? What has changed? Well, the short answer is the attitude of world leaders.
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How, then, could legalising drugs, as its advocates argue, really be the lesser of two evils? Well, the more you delve into this subject, the more you see the ironies. Take the easy availability of drugs in prison, where inmates are supposed to be rehabilitated. Or the fact that cannabis use in Holland, where the sale of the drug is tolerated in coffee shops, is lower than in Britain, where it’s illegal (around two to three million people use it regularly in this country).
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The argument for legalising hard drugs? That seems even less convincing. You can’t really have moderate heroin use in the way you can tobacco or alcohol. If heroin was made legal, surely many people who wouldn’t have dreamt of trying it would give it a go. And in purely practical terms, how would this actually work? Dalrymple made a good point when I asked about this: “The idea that we could regulate drugs carefully is ludicrous,” he told me. “We can’t even regulate a public examination system in this country.”
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9314600/Why-do-some-people-want-drugs-to-be-legal.html
 
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Another backward conservative makes a startling display of ignorance.

I love how these people always make the absurd claim that 'if hard drugs are legalized then of course everybody will go out and do them!' but then you ask them if they'd go out and start using meth or heroin or crack if they were legal and they say 'of course not!' The intellectual disparity is amazing.
 
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True Crankinit. Alcohol and tobacco are legal but that hasn't made everyone a smoker or drinker so why should people want to start taking hard drugs if they were made legal?
I guess at least it's being discussed which is a start.
 
Newspapers over here have a habit of referring to this 'new form' of cannabis called 'skunk' which is highly dangerous.

Skunk is one of hundreds of different High THC strains (well it's called Skunk #1 apparently). Everything I buy at the moment probably has higher levels of THC, but it just means I smoke less.
 
Yeah I hate the idea that potency means that people are getting ultra-super-duper-killer-STONED! The optimal, comfortable dose doesn't change with the potency of a drug, it just means you dose less to gain the same effects. It's the same argument with opiates, heroin doesn't get you twice as high as morphine does, it just gets you the same high for half the dose.

But throwing around the idea that current weed is NEWER and DANGEROUSER is the only way they can justify the hypocrisy of supporting prohibition now when so many of them were lighting up in the 60's and 70's. Even more intellectual disparity, it'd be quite fascinating if it wasn't so frustrating.

(apparently 'duper' is a real word :| )
 
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