Drug legalisation

[ugly_bob]

Is this the only way to control drugs?
Legalise and tax them. OK, it wouldn't stop people using them, but it would at least give some consistency to quality and stop there being so much rat poison cut with them.
Surely this would help the situation.

[vinrex7]

Even if they legalise drugs, and sell them in shops. they will be a watered down version of what you buy from your local dealer, so there will still be a black market for them as there is for fags and drink now.

[pugwashjw]

As a baptised J.W., I personally would not use any substance even if it were free. The exception is drugs prescribed by a G.P. As an ex-smoker, I am well aware of the habit forming chemicals in cigarettes. As to control, it seems that the Dutch government has the answer. Apparently in Amsterdam, marijuana can be bought from kiosks in the street. No one is forced to buy it. If cigarettes can be sold and controlled by government, why not other substances. And those who choose NOT to participate just don't. Availability seems to solve the crime aspect of drugtaking. And controls similar to alcohol and driving will ensure road safety. But for any government to bring the problem out into the open might seem as though they are condoning the practice. Yet the same governments condone alcohol and tobacco, both of which do not really help our health.

[pugwashjw]

pps. I will be answering religious questions using bible based answers WHEN the new religious topic is up and running. Then watch the feathers fly

[Rock'n'Roll]

I disagree. I would sooner see the middle and far east solution. Drug pushers of whatever drug should be locked away for a very , very long time. Those already addicted thanks to the scum should get whatever help it needs to get off them

[vinrex7]

Rock n roll. you obviously don't know what your talking about. you say drug dealers of any type should be locked up for a very long time. for a start alchol is a drug so are fags, tea and coffee. so should the owners of pubs be locked up? or shop keepers?

canabis is illegal but no one has ever died from it. were as alcohol has caused many deaths so you tell me which is worse?

i suggest before you comment on something you know nothing about you investigate it first so you don't look like a t*at