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Response to Spider Jerusalem (Reply #21)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 06:54 PM

22. OK, then it's silly...

No worries.

But since things don't happen in a vacuum, do you honestly think that decriminalizing drugs in America based on the already sky-high levels of addiction (to all manner of things) wouldn't have an effect on addiction to drugs?

Of course there's reason to assume that people will partake of more drugs who don't abuse alcohol; I look to myself...I don't like to drink much at all, but I love other 'illegal' drugs and if they were decriminalized I'm sure it would motivate even me to use them more often, and I doubt that I'm alone in that.

Not to mention, what about those alcoholics? You think they'd just stick to beer if coke was decriminalized?

Perhaps that's silly too.

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28 replies	Author	Time	Post
I Want Controlled Drugs Deregulated [View all]	rsmith6621	Dec 2012	OP
And legalizing drugs would probably reduce gun violence more than	cthulu2016	Dec 2012	#1
Awesome! hands you a medal for being awesome nt	ZombieHorde	Dec 2012	#2
If drugs were not controlled, prices would go down and prison cells would be emptied. I'm for that.	jody	Dec 2012	#3
Exactly, more guns == more violence	realgreen	Dec 2012	#4
May be logical to you but the government report showed murder rates with firearms decreased as # of	jody	Dec 2012	#5
Yes. The problem is prohibition != fewer guns	Recursion	Dec 2012	#13
Why?	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#6
You want to know what a good argument for decriminalising/legalising drugs is?	Spider Jerusalem	Dec 2012	#7
I agree with your comments on Mexico as to why it's such a violent place...	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#8
Well...	Spider Jerusalem	Dec 2012	#9
Well, yeah if you want them you can get them...	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#10
Which isn't what I advocated	Spider Jerusalem	Dec 2012	#12
Oops, I was confused by your responding to a thread entitled "I want controlled drugs deregulated'	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#14
Legalisation of cannabis, decriminalisation of smack, meth and coke	Spider Jerusalem	Dec 2012	#15
Eek...	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#16
Please learn the difference between "decriminalised" and "legal"	Spider Jerusalem	Dec 2012	#17
Ah, OK, thank you...	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#18
Alcohol is legal, how many alcoholics are there? Enough to justify criminalising alcohol?	Spider Jerusalem	Dec 2012	#19
No, but don't you think we have enough problems with alcohol?...	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#20
I think that it's frankly silly to assume that more people will do drugs if they're legal	Spider Jerusalem	Dec 2012	#21
OK, then it's silly...	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#22
Rates aren't "sky-high"	Spider Jerusalem	Dec 2012	#23
Rates of addiction in this country are in fact 'sky-high'...	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#24
That's just absurd	Spider Jerusalem	Dec 2012	#25
Well, now that YOU'VE called the argument stupid and me ignorant...	OneMoreDemocrat	Dec 2012	#26
Ending the War on Drugs would do more to end gun violence than anything I can think of	Recursion	Dec 2012	#11
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." No one knows	jody	Dec 2012	#27
Drugs (both soft and hard) should be legalized,	Jamaal510	Dec 2012	#28

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