Thread: More proof the drug war has failed

The drug war has failed, and the fact that people are now getting high off of nutmeg (yes, it's possible) is, to me, a microcosm of why prohibition does not work: because someone who wants to get high is going to find a way. Make the safer drugs like marijuana illegal and people will simply turn to more and more dangerous alternatives like K2 and bath salts.

Nutmeg too, can be dangerous. It's possible to overdose and die if you take too much. Which people are doing because America likes to pretend that making info on safely getting high would make more people do it, rather than preventing accidental deaths and overdoses. In the end, people are who want to get high, will get high. This further proof of that, and further proof of the colossal failure that is the drug war.

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/new...pice----nutmeg

I'm new, so sorry if I posted this in the wrong area, since this is a critique on the drug war I figured the subforum on civil liberties is best spot for it.

so whats your answer, legalize all drugs?

im ok with legalizing marijuana, i havent smoked it since i was 16 but i dont see anything wrong with it but of course rules should apply to it just like we have with alcohol. but legalizing cocaine,meth,heroin,etc. etc. i cant support.

Originally Posted by GeddonM3

so whats your answer, legalize all drugs?

im ok with legalizing marijuana, i havent smoked it since i was 16 but i dont see anything wrong with it but of course rules should apply to it just like we have with alcohol. but legalizing cocaine,meth,heroin,etc. etc. i cant support.

Why not? It's not like the drug war is keeping them out of peoples' hands. Take them and put them behind a counter instead of a drug dealer's pockets and you'll see a reduction of overdoses, teenage use etc.

Absolutely, legalize it all

Originally Posted by Forseti

Why not? It's not like the drug war is keeping them out of peoples' hands. Take them and put them behind a counter instead of a drug dealer's pockets and you'll see a reduction of overdoses, teenage use etc.

Absolutely, legalize it all

I have to agree with this.

Prohibitionists would have everyone believe that once all drugs are legalized, millions of people will run right out to get high. What is more than likely, is that consumption won't increase any more than it did with the repeal of alcohol prohibition., which was very little compared to consumption levels prior to passage of the 18th amendment.

Drug prohibition has been a complete and utter disaster and not just in terms of the prohibition itself but in the peripheral costs to society. Asset forfeiture laws, militarization of the police, erosion of civil liberties, draconian prison sentences for simple possession. The list goes on and on, and drugs are only marginally more difficult to obtain than if they were legalized.

In essence, yes, all drugs should be legalized. We need to get have government out of the prohibition business.