What's up with Mexican drug cartel brutality?

[Sheshaw]

Drugs should not be legal, ever.

Do you think society is going to function with a bunch of druggies in the work place? Do you want someone high operating cranes and heavy machinery, driving cars and going out on weekends with far more people on drugs than normal because its now legal.

Do you want your children getting high and ruining their minds and bodies?

Saying drugs should be legal is outrageous.

[LeG00N]

Drugs should not be legal, ever.

Do you think society is going to function with a bunch of druggies in the work place? Do you want someone high operating cranes and heavy machinery, driving cars and going out on weekends with far more people on drugs than normal because its now legal.

Do you want your children getting high and ruining their minds and bodies?

Saying drugs should be legal is outrageous.

1. Alcohol is legal, but it is still illegal to drive while intoxicated.
It would work the same with drugs

2.Kids will always find a way to get things. Like alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs.
Theres should be an age limit like alcohol and cigarettes.

3.More drug prevention programs to teach kids about the harms of drugs. Like the faces of Meth. When people see that shiit they won't want to use drugs.

plus it's up to the parents to keep their kids from doing drugs

[Sheshaw]

1. Alcohol is legal, but it is still illegal to drive while intoxicated.
It would work the same with drugs

2.Kids will always find a way to get things. Like alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs.
Theres should be an age limit like alcohol and cigarettes.

3.More drug prevention programs to teach kids about the harms of drugs. Like the faces of Meth. When people see that shiit they won't want to use drugs.

plus it's up to the parents to keep their kids from doing drugs

Yeah, but more of them will if its legal. That's a piss poor excuse.
Drug prevention programs have zero success. It isn't a new concept.

[Actus Reus 21]

Because there's already Millions of people in jail because of drug related crimes.
It' cost a lot to take care of these people.


It would cost more to lock people up

not if you put them to work in factories that are supervised by prison guards. Alot of prison allow priosoners to make license plates as a means of work. why not have them make other things that are easy to make? get something out of these dirt bag criminals

[Actus Reus 21]

Yeah, but more of them will if its legal. That's a piss poor excuse.
Drug prevention programs have zero success. It isn't a new concept.

exactly. these busted down junkies will find any excuse to get high and get away with it

[katsidis]

Cannabis does less damage to the human body, and is less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco yet you think its alright for those to be legal? just doesnt make sense...

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

why not?

because this is a civilized society not some drug land. Do you understand how many more people would be drug addicts if illegal drugs were made legal? you can basicaly forget about people graduating from schools or colleges. Also forget about being able to drive on the road because most likely your going to be killed off the road by a strung out junkie.

This is not true....

Before you make stupid uneducated statements like this, you should at least be read on the subject.

First off, I don't think HARD drugs should be legalized, cocaine, heroine, meth...etc

Marijuana should be and it's a no brainer. People don't use more because it's legal, that is simply not true. Take Portugal as one of many examples, they had one of the strictest drug policies in all of Europe and then legalized the use of recreational drugs and their drug problem has all but gone away. Drug use in Portugal is among the lowest in Europe.

Second, alcohol and tobacco kill more people in this country than all illegal drugs combined, those are facts from stats done by the U.S own Census Bureau.

Mexican drug cartels are ruthless in their killing for one reason, it's because they want to not only send a message to other cartels and police but they want to terrorize the people they are sending the message to. It's the same thing Al-Qaeda does in beheading people.

Those drugs are being supplied for AMERICAN consumption. As long as we make these drugs hard and illegal to obtain, they will be run by criminal organizations. Just legalizing marijuana would take significant power away from these drug cartels.

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war on drugs FTL

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

because we see babies smoking cigarettes and getting drunk every day huh?

I'm 21 and I almost never drink and I don't smoke.
If people want to do it, let them it's their life.

Most people won't do it anyway. Decriminalizing drugs will save tens of thousands of lives, and if we tax it.. it will bring in billions in revenue & we can finally cut back on the war on drugs spending. Since the war has been a failure anyway. It wouldn't be necessary anymore. We could move some of those funds to fund clinics and rehab centers for junkies trying to stop.

As a matter of fact, smoking and drinking have both gone down among people under 25 years of age. Significantly less people smoke cigarettes than they did even 20 years ago and back in the 50's and before, it seemed like everyone smoked.

[Smokin LHook]

why not?

because this is a civilized society not some drug land. Do you understand how many more people would be drug addicts if illegal drugs were made legal? you can basicaly forget about people graduating from schools or colleges. Also forget about being able to drive on the road because most likely your going to be killed off the road by a strung out junkie.

You do know that when Portugal legalized drugs 10 years ago or whenever it was, that drug use across the country DRASTICALLY declined.