Legalization of drugs how would it work ?

Off licence? extra clubcard points in Tesco.

I think they should have centers that distribute heroin like they do methadone. One shot a day to anyone that wants it and it must be consumed on the premise under tight scrutiny. Any serious addict would not have problem behaving themselves if they are threatened with losing their daily fix.

Crime rate would drop almost instantly and all it would cost us is the price of the centers and heroin which if legal would be very very cheap to provide.

Ecstasy, LSD and Mushrooms, I feel could be distributed in clubs or head shops, however proper use should be given and perhaps you might have to hear a lecture like you do with codeine based products.

Cocaine, Meth, etc, I would perfect to keep illegal, but failing that make them a controlled substance. In order to get some you would need to visit a GP who will give you a physical as well as educated you on the dangers of the drugs and the prescribe you some based on body weight

Perhaps in this drug eutopia we could educate our children that all drugs including alcohol have negative outcomes and don't just indoctrinate them into a society that says one drug is ok, perfectly normal and a way of life and the other is so bad you will die the first time you take it.

Czech Republic made possession of reasonable amounts of all drugs legal but outlawed sale. This targeted dealers but left users alone.

Then they reversed that and made possession illegal for a 10 year period.

They found drug addiction levels increased.

They recently reverted to the possession of all drug legal but sales illegal position.

kneemos wrote: »

You just have to look at happened with the Head Shops recently to see what happens when drugs are legalised,queues down the street every weekend night.
Legal means acceptable which they aren't.

Head shop products aren't drugs. They were poison, bath salts and other products not suitable for human consumption. It does not represent what it would be like if drugs were legal. The main reason is the head shop products were not taken by people until the shops sold them. Marijuana, cocaine etc have been around for decades/centuries.

Who says drugs aren't acceptable? I'm 19, did the leaving cert, in college and am in the top 3 earners of the closest 15/20 people of my age. Am I less of a person if I occasionally decide I need a joint to get away from the pressures of life? Are Obama, JFK or Carter any less people or are their achievements belittled because they have smoked weed?

People can get up on their high horses about drugs while they, ironically, have no problem with caffeine, alcohol or cigarettes.

If a person chooses to do something with their own body in private that is of the concern of no one else, they should not be criminalised or frowned upon!

kneemos wrote: »

Would you legalise something you wouldn't want your kids to use.

Nicotine and alcohol spring immediately to mind.

kneemos wrote: »

Neither of which you would legalise.

If you were to go back in time would you recommend legalising tobacco?

kneemos wrote: »

Addictive ones obviously aren't.
All of them are mind altering in some way.
Would you legalise something you wouldn't want your kids to use.

What would legalising drugs have to do with children? I don't think anyone agrees here that it should be legal for kids.

If drugs become legal, there will have to be an age restriction, same as alcohol and tobacco.

kneemos wrote: »

Addictive ones obviously aren't.
All of them are mind altering in some way.
Would you legalise something you wouldn't want your kids to use.

For adults, yeah. It's not my business what anyone else chooses to do with their own body, including any kids I have once they've turned 18.

Legalizing soft drugs merely makes casual use socially acceptable and denies me the illicit thrill of doing something subversive and illegal until I grow out of it. Frankly we don't need to legalize any further intoxicating substances, we've enough trouble with alcohol without adding a whole host of new drugs into the mix. Who knows what social, economic and health fallout we would face as a result, just look at the multi billion cost of alcohol abuse, from minor costs like sick days to major ones like liver transplants.

What needs to be done is the legalization of hard drugs. But not by putting them next to Vodka in the off license.
Here's what you do:
Anybody that wants it can get free class A drugs from a licensed clinic as long as they register themselves as a state drug addict.

This has several immediate effects.
The crime rate drops - Junkies don't have to spend all day shop lifting to buy drugs
Fewer addicts die from accidental overdoses or tainted drugs - State quality control
Drug dealers and other vicious criminals have to seek alternative employment.

The long term effects include:

Reduced number of new addicts to class A drugs. - With the dealers out of business because there's no profit in class A drugs (who wants to owe a violent criminal money when you can get the same junk for free from the state) dealers will not sell them, thus resulting in fewer addicts, after all, what casual drug user is going to register with the state as an addict just to try out a class A drug?

More users will get clean resulting in fewer registered addicts -
licensed clinics that supply the drugs will also have a mandate to provide a treatment programme for those that want it. So the supplier will be steering addicts towards recovery rather than addiction.

A decreese in HIV and Hepititis transmission. A drug clinic unlike a drug dealer can give you a blood test and clean needles.


That's my 10 cents worth.

If FF are in power they'll only be on sale through pubs.