Yeah I can, because in the end they’re all just mind altering substances that people use for entertainment and sometimes get hooked too. Out here in reality, away from the WOD hyperbole, alcohol is one of the most addictive substances around, with significantly nastier (even potentially fatal) withdrawal symptoms than almost everything we’ve made illegal. So the real problem with equating beer and liquor to marijuana, meth and coke is how much worse beer and liquor are for your body.
And I’m not actually drawing analogies, I’m pointing out that we have legal mind altering substances that don’t have most of the problems that surround the illegal ones. And with the legal ones we’ve already shown how abjectly making them illegal failed, and how it CREATED all those black market problems, and how re-legalizing got rid of them. Remember ALL of this stuff was legal once upon a time, and none of them were more of a problem when they were legal than they are now.
It’s not surrendering, it’s admitting the stupidest mistake in the history of the country.
Logical arguments aren't going to do any good. There is a huge base of folks who are either profiting from the war on drugs or are just neo-puritain control freaks who don't like to admit being no better than the leftist control freaks who want to do away with soft drinks.
And as I said. Making murder legal will solve all our illegal murder problems too.
But for you to argue that meth and coke is not as dangerous as beer and liquor tells me I’ve been discussing things with a moron.
Good Afternoon.
You have no idea of what you are talking about. Legalized drugs in China resulted in the deaths of around 100 million Chinese. You simply have no view of the larger historical picture.
Drugs wrecked China and killed Millions. It was horrible, it was ugly and it was brutal. Far worse than anything being discussed in reference to the "War on Drugs."
Drugging a Nation:The Story of China and the Opium Curse
What you are suggesting would be the "stupidest mistake in the history of the country."