Definitely an interesting debate. But I think he is overlooking the Vicodin angle.

If Heroin was available as a prescription (treating what I'm not sure, probably heroin addiction), how long until it's Everywhere?

Middle schoolers are passing out percoset and vicodin in class, and since it isn't illegal the assumption must be that it's relatively safe. If Heroin has the same classification, it would be kids doing it like CRAZY. Adults might lay off, but if some kid gets ahold of his uncle's prescription or something, it will be everywhere.

What kind of world do we live in where that WON'T happen?

>> ^Lolthien:
What kind of world do we live in where that WON'T happen?


It's happening anyway.

Given that we have honest, compassionate people watching over things--and in America, that's never going to happen--legalization would give us the control instead of leaving it to the syndicates and, yes, the banks and other "legal" institutions who thrive on the profits of illegal drugs.

The CIA and other dirtbags make a lot of money off heroin, and they use it as a weapon, too.

Nothing is going to change because as with the Democrats and the Republicans, the difference between the DEA and the drug cartels is just an illusion, a front for the people who are really in charge.

If drugs were legalized I'm willing to bet that you would see less drugs in schools.

There is no profit in bringing alcohol into schools. It is legal so there is no way to make a decent profit to offset the danger of bringing it into a school. Alcohol was much harder for me to find in school than LSD, weed, or pretty much anything illegal.

Illegal drugs are profitable. You can't just have someone go to the store to pick up weed or coke so you pretty much have to pay extra to a dealer. The amount of profit involved gives much more incentive to bring drugs to school despite the risk. If you could go to the store and get drugs then the incentive to sell them at school evaporates.

The government has no business telling ANYONE what substances they can and can't take.

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I concur, its impossible to regulate what people put into their own bodies and it would be wrong of the government to even try. Throwing addicts in prisons isn't going to help them, give people the facts and let them make their own decisions. If you want to shoot up heroin on your own time in your own personal space without impeaching the rights of any of your fellow citizens, that's fine. If you start to disturb the peace on your high and commit violent crimes yes THEN that's justification to throw a person in jail. But don't prosecute people for victimless crimes.