Reply #35: Pretty bold assumption [View All]

[Roland99]

Meth as the drug it is, I highly doubt, would be manufactured at all legally. Step-down drugs and similar drugs such as ephedrine pills could be made readily available, and meth manufacturers would be out of business.

You're psychic now? Interesting....


If drugs were legal, regulated, and taxed, drug dealers would be out of business. There goes dealers, off the streets, and drug related violence cut down considerably.

Like I said, rose-colored glasses. Every drug dealer out there now is going to voluntarily fall in line and give up the massive incomes they're reaping? Yeah....right.


But legalization and regulation CAN make the streets safer, get dirty drugs off the streets, and cut down drug related violence.

Sure, it can. But will it? I seriously doubt to the level you're expecting.


Education, REAL education and not that DARE propaganda crap, will help the problem. Opening clinics where addicts can get the help they need will help the problem. Getting dealers off the streets will help the problem.

A better solution is ridding poverty and providing better opportunities for those with lower or no incomes. Our welfare system should be a "hand up" system, not a "hand out" system. I can't believe I'm going to use this word but give them a sense of ownership over their own lives.