Yeah, i agree, i cant even fathom the fact that they can steal your car for a little bit of weed.... I grew up in canada so drug laws are much more lax, and cops rarely search you, and they rarely incarcerate simple drug users..... I could have found basically any drug i wanted to while i was in highschool, by lunch time if i wanted to, and i didnt go to a school in the ghetto..... I look at that, and literally me and all my friends have tried every single drug short of putting a needle in your arm, and now my friends are all successful people. Its not like we turned into a bunch of depraved animals..... I dont think that alot of the people who are older understand how prevalent casual drug use is among younger people these days, and that is why they take such a hard line stance on it. I know a couple kids who got busted with weed, and one person who got busted with cocaine while we were in highschool, in Canada, and basically what the court made you do on the first charge was "mediation" whereby you sat down with a counselor and they just told you all the horror stories of drugs, then made you do some community service, helping the community in some area where you would witness the slums of the hardcore addicted drug users. Then they would drop the drug charge off your record so it didnt fuck up your entire future. I compare that to what they would to to a young kid in the states and its just fucking retarded, in lots of cases i have heard of kids being sent to juvenuile hall or something for weed. Plus if it stays on your record it ruins your entire life..... It is 10 times more expensive to send a kid to juvy then it is to have them do some community service..... The war on drugs is a colossal failure..... The flip side of canadian law is that they let lots of pedophiles and murderers back onto the street, guys like Paul_Bernardo who was one of the most heinous serial killers in history, end up with parole hearings.......]so in that sense Canada is far to liberal. thats why i say i like the Canadian system for drugs, and the u.s. system for violent criminals. Just out of curiousity if you dont mind saying how old are you phoenix? I find younger people have a much different perspective on thsi shit.
If I were to tell you the neurotransmitter for addiction to both is the same would you change your mind?
You're incredibly naive. Obviously you have no clue about the number of alcohol related deaths or the total alcohol related toll on society so, like IQ47, you "think" because alcohol's been legalized, it's Ok to legalize crack as well. Spew all the Paultarded "government fiat" nonsense you want but you have no "right" to take whatever drugs you want and the sheeple can't handle it so it ain't going to happen.
No but I think drunk driving penalties for example should be a lot harsher and I also don't think that because alcohol's legal, it's a justification for legalizing crack. I hear people talk about "personal responsibility" but these days there is none.
Quite honestly either you believe in liberty and celebrate personal autonomy or you believe in the tyranny of the nanny state. We all know where you stand, the rest is just red herring rationalizations.
Here is a fantastic video on the Tennesse Police department, which shows the real motive behind the "war on drugs" and how they choose to shakedown people on the highway. The highway has 2 directions, the drugs come up on one side from mexico, and the money makes its way back down to mexico from the other side. So which side does the Tennesse police department decide to shake people down on? They pull the people over on the money side, at a rate of 10-1 because they can confiscate it and keep it, they allow all the drugs to freely flow into the country. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DjbtutJvQ7Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>