Legalization of Drugs

And you seemed to ignore my request about formatting... "War on Drugs is a term commonly applied to a campaign of prohibition, military aid and military intervention, with the stated aim being to define and reduce the illegal drug trade-Wikipedia" I don"t understand your argument here. Intervention with military and control is for the protection of potential innocent citizens that may be caught in the crossfire, intervention of illegal drug users themselves, and even border protection against drug smugglers. ICE agents, border patrol, police, military, they are all involved for a reason, and that is for the removal and break of drug transport and use. "Actually there is a variety of Political and Economic reasons why drugs are illegal for example i would expect the Wood industry would be very much against the legalization of cannabis because of hemp production that this would lead to reducing the Wood Companies profit" True, just like it is for putting the tobacco industry out of business. That"s not really much that could be said though because even if it will "reduce", i"m quite certain that not everyone will conform to an alternative to wood and tobacco. Some don"t want to be high from smoking or completely rebuild wooden structures that are already durable enough to use. "We have many stupid laws in fact many countries have stupid laws homosexuality for example is banned in a number of countries in Africa does that make homosexuals bad for breaking the law? what about slave traders ? slave trade used to be legal so because it wasn't illegal they shouldn't be considered bad/evil or criminals? Not everything the government says is a valid argument" Illegal drug use is not a civil right, while homosexuality is. Slave trade invaded civil rights as well. "I only said the drugs could be sold by the government because it is an option not because i necceserily support that , I am a Libertarian and i generally belive businesses should be left on their own and i support private certifiers not government regulations i fully understand your concern but i personally belive in limited government involvement" Great to hear you are a Libertarian, and I respect your political affiliations. I"m a moderate, and as much as I feel that there should be more restrictions on what the government does in your life, drug war is an issue throughout our entire nation, and it seems that states don"t want any part on it, when, again, our nation is being affected. Also, with what you said about businesses being left on their own, you said that "drug dealers can put stuff into the drug to increase the value therefore customers are not sure how pure it is". Are you now taking that back when it comes to independent markets and sales? "The most harmful drugs like the Greek 'Sisa' i don't belive are likely to spread further than localy but even so how would prohibiting drugs stop them from doing so? If anything than legalizing drugs would make these new inventions safer" Drugs that come into our country aren"t local, and prohibition allows the law to be enforced against illegal drugs and users of them, and even if it isn"t prison time, there allows intervention for the possibility of rehab of users that are practically killing themselves. Even if there is regulation to potentially make them safer, drugs are drugs, and just as much as the tobacco industry is distributing products that kill people from cancer, you never know. "Yes drugs CAN be harmful and so are many other things stopping people from hurting themselves is the same as banning suicide or cutting yourself Those people who use these drugs made the decision to do so we are not responsible for them and even so not every addict is what the sterotypical picture is like it is actually very hard to spot an addict in a crowd" As much as I can see your point in the first comment on this quote, why even if it wasn"t banned, people will still hurt themselves, just like suicide and cutting. As much as it is purely their responsibility, what about the affects it has on those that love and care about them? Spouses, children, parents, family, friends? They need to look at the entire spectrum. How are there stereotypes? You are either an addict or you are not, and will experience the same repurcussions. "Just how it is not the government's resposibility to arrest someone for putting a needle in their arm and your link mostly talked about the effects of being addicted to it." I realize that I sound hypocritical there considering how I was talking about repercussions and intervention. I feel that it relies more on state protection and intervention, but in the end, it leads up to government laws and federal crimes. With effects, that goes to what I said about the risk(s) that users take. "Let's talk about production costs first. With large-scale production, the price to produce a pound of marijuana could drop as low as 20 cents per pound, based on figures from Canada's industrial hemp farms, 'http://money.howstuffworks.com...... i expect other drugs to follow a similar pattern and most experts agree" I appreciate that you offered the source, however that really counts on Canada, and U.S. being based on state to state. It"s possible that other drugs may follow suit, but that"s really up to the future to figure out. "Yes Laws exist ? does that mean we cannot change them? we do not have a constitutional right to possess Marijuana but you are still in favour of legalizing it just like i am in favour of legalizing all the others like i said before people make bad laws and i don't neccesary see someone who brakes the law as bad. " Oh absolutely, we can always change laws. Yes, I am in favor of legalizing it, but that doesn"t mean that I support breaking current laws. "Like i said before the number of overdoses would go down because the market would be regulated people overdose because they buy from a black market in which dealers decide how many % of the stuff they are selling is pure. and why would there be more arrests ? why would there be more deaths from drug abuse if drugs were legal?" People overdose either because of personal error, they don"t know the appropriate amount to use, or because of the people they buy it from. I can agree with one of those, but it"s all personal choice and responsibility, with laws that are there for protection and possible rehabilitation if that is the way a person"s wishes to do so if they have not been caught. Of course if they are legal, there will be less arrests, but that doesn"t make it that there will be less deaths from drugs, considering that people die from legal drugs as well, such as tobacco. "I forteified the round because i was busy and my opponent seems really abusive about it for some reason" I accept your excuse, but don"t get yourself involved in a debate if you can"t make the time for it. 'um So?" Checked the date of that argument, my mistake.