SpinnerMan wrote:Olly wrote:SpinnerMan wrote:Olly wrote:Flightstopper wrote:This is why meth should be legalized.
Just proof that people that want to use drugs can and will.
I know you were trolling but it proves my point exactly that drugs being illegal doesn't stop anyone that really wants to drop acid of smoke meth from doing so.
Nope. Just means you have to go to a criminal to get it.
Do drug dealers check ID?
You weren't here I don't think but then biggest WFF debate of all time was the should drugs be legal or illegal debate. It makes me tired just thinking about doing that again
With the great success that has come as a result of the prohibition on drug, even more success than the prohibition of alcohol, I don't know why there is even a debate. How could it ever get worse?
After all, you can't legislate your morality, but I can legislate mine
I think if you are a nicotine addict, you are an idiot pissing away your life and money, but you should not be a criminal or even pay a higher tax rate than someone spending their money on the "right" thing. Same with alcohol, some with pot, same with meth, same with ice cream sundaes or even Big Gulps, same with sex with random strangers of any gender for free or a fee, same with gambling, same with the entire spectrum of things people do to damage their lives.
We are moving to put in place a de facto ban on nicotine and people are already starting to die. That's why that big guy in NYC died. He was a black market drug dealer and the drug he was dealing was tobacco because of the insanely high taxes on tobacco. Sin taxes just make the government the drug dealer with a vested interest in protecting their profits and they do so with force like so many other drug dealers.
For those that think some of these things should be illegal, what fraction of society would call the cops if they found out that their adult children were doing it or even their neighbor that they don't particular care for, but aren't looking to screw over? If the answer is damn few, it is doomed to fail.
If society won't even call the cops if their adult kid or neighbor murders someone, then society is doomed to fail.
Put a ton of laws in place that society won't help enforce simply creates the environment where society will not help enforce the laws that must be enforced and everything goes to hell from there. People argue that it was the drugs that did the harm. I disagree. It is the general lawlessness and local acceptance of the lawlessness.
Every law should be enforced relentlessly if for only one simple reason.
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” Abraham Lincoln
It's against Arkansas law to have tobacco on campus. Most of my classmates, myself included, dip in class. Teachers don't give a shit. Some of the stuck up mother fuckers will turn you in and you get a fine. Now my neighbors in the dorm smoked pot everyday and I'm sure they weren't the only ones. RAs didn't care and never turned them in but had I been caught with Copenhagen I would have gotten a fine. It's ridiculous the way culture has turned, tobacco users are cast as black sheep and illegal drug users are becoming accepted. I have no problem with what someone else does but people that do legal things ought to be treated better than those that don't.
