Original post by theonefrombrumHahahahahaha. You're such an idiot that it defies belief and actually saddens me. Portugal have not legalised the usage of drugs at all, you're purely overlooking what they have done to try and discredit my points. Firstly, the drugs that are sold which addicts can have on them if its less than a 10 day supply are still being sold by drug dealers and there's still a huge stigma attached to that for the average person which would naturally diminish if drugs were truly legalised and allowed to be sold in stores just like cigarettes and alcohol. All it would take is one person 'willing it give it a go' to then become addicted and this cycle will become perpetuated. Why do you think that people start smoking? Listen, they have hardly been made legal so you can't say that there won't be increased usage based on what Portugal has done as they haven't really done too much so stop being obtuse. It's not a scare tactic, like alcohol and cigarettes people will naturally feel less opposed to trying something and subsequently becoming addicted to it if its legalised. What we know it wont do is decrease drug usage and also its going to set a bad precedent for the kids of the future who will be less accepting of any claims that these drugs are bad for them if they are made legal, purely because of that fact. If they're so bad, why are they legal then? Is what a lot of them will say, especially the poorer ones with nothing to do and they'll probably try them out, like people try out cigarettes and try out alcohol and drugs supposedly give you a better feeling than either of those things.
It's vague because I assumed that virtue of your ardent advocating on this issue you at least has a small understanding of the antecedents in someone's life which can cause them to be more inclined to illegally take drugs. The economic idiosyncrasies of their areas, which can often differ substantially from the wider economy as a whole and mostly do, a lack of role models, bad education, all of these things need to be addressed and solved and that's where the money should be going, not on ****ing legalising drugs. I never said that legalising drugs would make them cool, the subjective opinion of them being cool will come virtue of them being used by other people who are seen as cool, just like for many smoking is cool as is getting pissed on a Saturday night.
Tax money? Do you realise that millions of new people would have to become addicted to drugs in order for the Government to bring in more money in drug tax than they currently do in seizing cash that drug gangs have made? Unless the drug problem perpetuates itself into an epidemic, which isn't totally impossible, the Government will be making less money than they currently do with regards to illegal drugs so again, stop speaking about things that you are not fully understanding of.
It's not just libertarian, it's an argument I would have thought would only have been posited by a drunk Nigerian man in Leicster square on a Friday night who has lost his wife because she decided that she hates him and who also suffers from schizophrenia. It's not credible, it WOULD increase usage and its completely indicative of a lack of will or Governmental ability to deal with this issue in a different way. In fact, you have contradicted yourself as you are defending drugs based in waht I said about how ridiculous it would be to legalise them in name of giving people freedom of choice and yet if you want that, you don't really care that people could choose to take them, which is morally horrible on your behalf. Just stop man, just stop.