Of course it is, probably worse in many instances, but alcohol comes out on top as the drug that does most damage time and time again.
I think we’d be better off legalising and regulating most drugs. They will never be stopped and making them illegal only fuels violence and misery and funds the most despicable people on the planet. I think any harm done by legalising them would be outweighed by the harm saved from getting rid of the illegal drugs trade.
the only thing is - they’d still be scum bags and they’d turn to something else to make money - most likely violent crime, tiger kidnappings and human trafficking
Whatever about the merits of different drugs how in the name of God is it worse to swallow a tablet than to snort a line of unidentified powder up your nose to be dissolved by blood vessels in your sinus to go straight to your brain???
do you know what’s in a tablet you do? Mr fucking Nice
So it seems we shouldn’t try police or legalise something in case the bad men decide to move into something else.
There you have it.
you’re like an auld blue bottle in every single fucking thread, buzzing around annoying the fuck out of everyone
You are missing his point.
You don’t know what is in either.
A tablet is just compressed powder.
It’s like anything. If you haven’t ran in a month and then decide to go out and do a hard 10k run you are going to be stiff the next morning.
If you are doing that 10k or variations of it every few days then the body adapts.
Chronic alcoholism is a tough sight. There used to be a 60 something woman who used to be a regular in a pub I worked in. Towards the end of the night she would relatively discreetly ask for 4 measures of whiskey in an empty lucosade bottle to take home with her to take the edge off when she woke in the morning. God only knows what she would go through if she had to take a couple of days off it.
They’d try but it’d be gone, there isn’t the same money in anything else. Billions and billions of industry. All the people that would never get caught up in violence, all the people that would never go to jail, the fact there would be some regulation and control of the substances and thereby a limit of the harm they could do, the revenue that would accrue to governments to treat people. Drugs trade is the main source of funding of most terrorism. It would wipe out so much harm in the world.
I said it seemed worse, to me. Just me.
He’s made my point. And fair enough to you if you see it that way. But I’d see it completely the opposite, at least swallowing something is a natural way of ingesting something.
If their prospects are zero, then the likelihood is that the young people involved in the drug trade will find a different illegal avenue to get involved in.
They might, but nothing is as profitable. It would wipe out a massive amount of criminality at a stroke.
it would legitimize a massive amount of criminals at a stroke. Basically all the fellas producing it in colombia would have to be legalized overnight, or else they’d have to napalm half the country to seize control of them and the cartels in Mexico.
I’d say there’d be more bloodshed involved in seizing control than cause by the drug
I don’t think them lads are too worried about taxes or health and safety
But what do young, disaffected youths with little prospects do then?
Is it burglaries and muggings? Does violent crime on citizens increase?
The reason people snort coke afaik is it works more quickly and efficiently absorbed through the mucous membranes of the nose than it would if swallowed.
Is that not very simplistic? Surely by legalising everything you’re exponentially increasing the amount of harm that could be done.
Illegality is a barrier to use.
Decriminalisation is a different thing but legalising it just wouldn’t work. Would the government be setting up supply chains with gangsters out in Colombia?