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Dus hier zijn een paar goede argumenten voor legalisatie. Sinds het begin van de Oorlog tegen Drugs hebben we al veel bereikt. We weten nu dat het merendeel van de toenmalige beweringen over drugs leugens zijn; simpelweg angstzaaien om steun voor het verbod te genereren. Met de hulp van de wetenschap hebben we langzaam dit verwarde web van bedrog ontrafeld.

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In light of my recent articlewhere I touched on responsibility, which included some information on drug use, I came across this list from a pro-drug website that gives 10 reasons they think we should legalize all drugs.

Society has every right to make determinations of what is acceptable within that society and what is not acceptable. The fact that many people within the society are going to act in a manner contrary to the rules only means that many people are going to get punished for violating the social contract to which they inherently agree and submit.

Most illegal and legal drug use is recreational. Poverty and despair are at the root of most problematic drug use and it is only by addressing these underlying causes that we can hope to significantly decrease the number of problematic users.

Making the production, supply and use of some drugs illegal creates a vacuum into which organised crime moves. The profits are worth billions of pounds.

Legalisation forces organised crime from the drugs trade, starves them of income and enables us to regulate and control the market i. About all legalization will do is allow the government to regulate and tax drugs, thus keeping them expensive and many forced to remain underground in order to find drugs cheap enough to use.

Just look at tobacco taxes, they make up the majority of the cost per pack. In fact, it will likely make the problem worse. Besides, he says he wants prescriptions for drugs? If anyone can get it, why have it prescribed in the first place? Using illegal drugs is very expensive.

Most of the violence associated with illegal drug dealing is caused by its illegality Legalisation would enable us to regulate the market, determine a much lower price and remove users need to raise funds through crime. Our legal system would be freed up and our prison population dramatically reduced, saving billions.

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Because of the low price, cigarette smokers do not have to steal to support their habits. There is also no violence associated with the legal tobacco market. People in the U. Up to one and a half million people use ecstasy every weekend.

Amongst young people, illegal drug use is seen as normal. In Holland, where cannabis laws are far less harsh, drug usage is amongst the lowest in Europe.

Legalisation accepts that drug use is normal and that it is a social issue, not a criminal justice one. How we deal with it is up to all of us to decide.

This is a clear logical fallacy, argumentum ad populum. I am of the mind that people should not be jailed for drug use offenses, people who use drugs need treatment, not punishment.

I will handle this more in my final thoughts at the bottom. This creates many of the risks and dangers associated with drug use.

Legalisation would help us to disseminate open, honest and truthful information to users and non-users to help them to make decisions about whether and how to use.Sinds het begin van de Oorlog tegen Drugs hebben we al veel bereikt. We weten nu dat het merendeel van de toenmalige beweringen over drugs leugens zijn; simpelweg angstzaaien om .

“Het legaliseren van wiet levert alleen maar voordelen op: de politie kan zich richten op de echte misdaad, de wiet wordt minder schadelijk en de samenleving ontvangt extra inkomsten -niet de misdadigers- waar we goede dingen mee kunnen doen.” Het CDA wil de illegale handel in drugs aanpakken in plaats van gedogen.”.

Mar 10,  · Een kort (school)interview over het al dan niet legaliseren van softdrugs. Volledig legaliseren (inclusief productie en verkoop) of volledig verbieden en hard naleven door justitie zijn volgens mij de enige 2 opties die we voor iedere soort drugs als samenleving moeten afwegen.

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Stop being a loser. In light of my recent article, where I touched on responsibility, which included some information on drug use, I came across this list from a pro-drug website that gives 10 reasons they think we should legalize all drugs.

I’d like to address their claims, if I could. Keep in mind, this is a UK site, presumably aimed at a UK audience.