White Girl Bill (Failed)

[k-onmmunist]

The War on Drugs was a major policy error in this nation's history. However, it is now nearly over and this bill would legalise all remaining drugs except heroin and PCP. There is nothing to be accomplished by imprisoning addicts, so I urge the Senate to pass this bill and focus instead on drug rehabilitation rather than punishment.

The tax level is one I thought would be adequate, but feel free to make your own suggestions. Any amendment that gains support for tax, I would be willing to regard as friendly.

[k-onmmunist]

I oppose this measure

Why?

[k-onmmunist]

I oppose this measure

Why?

1. I oppose the legalization of all drugs and want to make the ones we have legalized illegal again. Barring that.

2. I prefer we at least not legalize such hardcore drugs as Cocaine, meth, and Ketamine.

But why? What do you aim to achieve? If we keep drugs illegal, we allow impure drugs to kill people, we punish people rather than rehabilitate them and we are forced to pay for rehab for drug addicts that do go out of income tax, when it could come out of a tax on the drugs themselves.

[k-onmmunist]

I oppose this measure

Why?

1. I oppose the legalization of all drugs and want to make the ones we have legalized illegal again. Barring that.

2. I prefer we at least not legalize such hardcore drugs as Cocaine, meth, and Ketamine.

But why? What do you aim to achieve? If we keep drugs illegal, we allow impure drugs to kill people, we punish people rather than rehabilitate them and we are forced to pay for rehab for drug addicts that do go out of income tax, when it could come out of a tax on the drugs themselves.

The drug itself is deadly. This legalizes Cocaine and by extention Crack. There is no way to sell these or regulate then in a way that would guarrantee that you could take them without dropping dead. Any such thing that can't, should be illegal, as a threat to public safety.

Even so, do you really think it's the states business to control what people put in their bodies? If people want to die, they have a right to. And what's more, if purified, they're less dangerous and there is better chance of rehabilitation as a result.

[k-onmmunist]

It should be people's choices what to do with their bodies, not the states. It makes little sense to waste police time going after people who do drugs.

[k-onmmunist]

I accept this amendment.

[k-onmmunist]

I can't get behind legalizing dangerous, addictive drugs like meth, cocaine and all their counterparts. Alcohol may be just as dangerous with the right amounts, but you can have a beer here and there and not become dependent on it, but with other drugs such as those listed, one hit and you can't live without it. I would know. I had a friend who tried coke once and became an addict before going through rehab. I can't support this under any circumstances.

But would you rather he had gone to prison instead of rehab? There is a desperate need for therapy rather than punishment. What's more, part of these drugs appeal is their illegality. After legalisation, drug usage rates in Portugal dropped.

[k-onmmunist]

I oppose this bill. I'm against the legalisation of drugs.

I want to help the drug addicts. That means they should be provided by the state with the respective drugs. That would reduce crime and give them a human perspective.

The comparison with alcohol is not correct. Alcohol isn't very good, but it's a part of our culture since thousands of years, drugs don't.

Alcohol is far more dangerous to society than these drugs are - alcohol encourages violence against other people. Cocaine does not.

[k-onmmunist]

What do you mean we aren't Portugal? I know that, I'm just saying that as another Western country, it provides a good example.

[k-onmmunist]

Yeah, this is true. Alcohol will always be far more of a social cost than cocaine, simply because of how accepted it is in Western society and how easy access is. This would at least make sure it can only be sold at pharmacies.

[k-onmmunist]

Aye

[k-onmmunist]

This is a shame.