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There are lots of drugs (mostly psychedelics) that are neither addictive nor particularly lethal. For example MDMA (ecstasy) killed 63 Americans in the year 2000. That same year saw 85,000 Americans killed by alcohol and 435,000 Americans killed by tobacco.
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I thought in Brazil it is legal to get guns, just getting permits and licenses.
And as I said before, legalizing drugs won't solve the crime problem. Why do you think in the US, people are saying that is a stupid idea. Sure taxing it would raise a lot of money and would surely make it hard for the organized crime to lose their hold on it, but saying you can go into a store and buy cocaine and meth because it's legal now is a very bad idea. Quote:
I don't want any drugs no addictive or otherwise to be legal. It's already illegal to smoke in bars and a lot of restaurants and college campus. They can't can't get rid of something that is already so wide spread and legal for decades.
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Anyway, if you take away the massive profits from drugs, you're left with a whole host of other crimes. Though none of them are able to maintain the level of presence and influence that criminal organizations currently have. Nobody ever threatened national security with an auto theft ring, there just isn't enough money in it. And human trafficking? Take all the money spent on the drug war and spend it on fighting that instead. You're still not going to need an entire battalion of mechanized infantry to do it. |
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Oh, and about the bulldozing, there´s a plan being developed since Lula´s government to urbanize the favelas. But seriously, can you build schools, houses and streets while everything is being controlled by gangs? I don´t think so. Quote:
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If you really believe that, then you've got a lot of molecules to outlaw, including almost every drug that is already a controlled substance, because unless it's on Schedule I, it's still legal under certain circumstances. Do you want to ban Vicodin and Oxycontin? What about Fentanyl? Fentanyl is far more dangerous than Heroin, being lethal in microgram amounts, but for patients in advanced stages of cancer it's manna from Heaven. Benzodiazepines like Xanax, Valium, and Ativan are very addictive, but absolutely necessary for people with severe anxiety and insomnia. Do you want to ban dextromethorphan? (Robitussin) Do you want to ban dimenhydrinate? (Dramamine) What about nutmeg, should we ban nutmeg? Dust Off? Nitrous oxide? Gasoline? Quote:
The argument that you can't ban tobacco and alcohol because "They can't can't get rid of something that is already so wide spread and legal for decades." doesn't hold up in against history. Drugs being illegal is a very recent phenomenon. The use of opium, coca, cannabis, ephedra, psylocibin, and DMT go back just as far as alcohol, millenia into prehistory. And still today the use of drugs is far more widespread and popular than anyone really wants to admit. It was never not widespread. Of all the factors that lead to decreased drug use in populations, legislation and enforcement is the least relevant. |
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Gun running gets huge profits and has the hardware necessary for shooting down a helicopter or taking out a patrol all over.
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Who the hell is talking about kicking people?
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What exactly is the plan? How can you urbanize the favelas if you don't tear them down first? All the buildings look pretty rickety to me.
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