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Chicken Tikka Masala sounds like something I would fix for supper and I don't use illegal narcotics but some sort of Chicken for supper is always good.
All of the above. Who am I to tell a grown adult what they can and can't do with their body?
I can't vote on this poll because that's not the real issue so much as public behavior & people rendering themselves unfit for civilization and unaccountable for themselves through addiction. We need improved understanding of addiction, hopefully prevention screening heading them off before they steer off a cliff, and a better means to fairly deal with addicts (fair to the rest of us in civilization) before I can say yes. I don't want to hear anymore stories about alcohol abuse starting at the age of 12 and shrooms getting in their hands by legalizing is more likely than not to occur.
I have grave concerns about children being raised in or proximal to addict culture. Exhibit A Robert Downey Jr's early life was incredibly tragic. He nearly didn't make it and the risk of running off the rails again is with him for the rest of his life. It's a parentally imposed handicap rivaling cults that rationalize child neglect because 'god told them'. Whomever wants a life of drugs needs to willfully consent to renounce what they're rendering themselves unable to live up to. DOT professions are just a drop in the bucket. Medical professions, military... whole host of other high risk life and death adult responsibilities upholding civilization & communities.
A woman was arrested for murdering her child. She was so strung out on whatever (meth?) she put her infant in the washing machine with the rest of the wash. I don't have to read it again to know beyond doubt we need a better means of socially confronting these individuals before they commit grievous harm to others. It's too much wear and tear on cops/ emergency service provider systems ill equipped to deal with what is a lifelong habit of self inflicted calamity abusing good will & rights of all others.
People do drugs anyway. We may as well provide a safe manner in which to do them. So I voted to legalize them all--though I have to say I didn't know till tonight that Chicken Tikka Masala was a drug.
I am convinced that the only way to break the power and corruptive influence of the drug cartels is to take away their profit. Make all drugs legal. There will be people that destroy themselves, just as now happens, but it will remove the profit and the "cool" from drugs and people that use them will be pitied and looked down socialy on just as when drugs were legal before around the turn of the last century. It's not a good solution, it's the only solution.
All of the above. Who am I to tell a grown adult what they can and can't do with their body?
I agree, all of them. However, if we're going to have tax-funded health care, hold on. If I have to choose between a $20 billion/yr bill for a war on drugs, and a $500 billion/yr for rehab/hep c/aids etc. for millions of drug users, I will choose the former.
If I have to choose between a $20 billion/yr bill for a war on drugs, and a $500 billion/yr for rehab/hep c/aids etc. for millions of drug users, I will choose the former.
The war on drugs is failing miserably. Why waste more money? Take away the drug profits and the war is over automaticaly.
I voted for every drug. Organized crime would decline and we would no longer have to fund an unwinnable war (the War on Drugs).
I would rather first only legalize marijuana and see if that goes as well or better than tobacco and alcohol. My guess is that it would work out fine. Common sense should dictate that keeping illegal drugs under the control of violent criminals is insane social policy. After all, narcs think they are only able to seize 10 per cent of the underground drug market. Under that circumstance people, such as underaged kids lose, drugs win.
In Kentucky alone, taxpayers spent $1.7 million on prisoners’ teeth. 80% of these costs cover treatment and decay. “Meth mouth” is a form of tooth decay resulting from users’ neglect.
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is reporting a record 7012 children in foster care, a thousand more than last year’s total. Parental neglect at the hands of methamphetamine users is contributing to this increase.
According to an article in the Financial Times ( October 17, 2005), oil industry workers who abuse and produce methamphetamine have caused delays and increased costs to oil producers. This has resulted in project slowdowns and increases in the price of oil in the United States and around the world.
An article appearing in HighCountryNews.org on October 3, 2005 illustrates the extent of the methamphetamine problem within the oil and gas rig workforce in rural Colorado. Meth-using workers in this dangerous industry increase the number of mistakes and accidents, endangering other workers and driving up the costs of operations.
Very good post.
Drugs like the above do cost society a lot... both in money and personally.
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