I am fully aware that there are many drugs that are indeed harmful to users.
However, there are some drugs that do not have any permanent side effects (whether they be mental or physical) including chemical addiction. These drugs still remain illegal though they are far less dangerous than even alcohol.
What is your opinion on this?
Is there an explanation for why this is?
Best Answer: Our government is dominated by puritans.
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I think it’s fine that they remain illegal.
If they aren’t benefiting a person in any way, what’s the point of using them?
Our government is dominated by puritans.
I love pot… thats the only one I know that doesnt have side effects, is not dangerous, hasnt killed anyone…
that you got this information from someone who does a lot of those “not harmful drugs”
Whatever can’t harm harm you IS safe
Only drug that i can think of right now that is harmless would be xtc. Not addicting at all and the effects on the serotonin levels are back to normal within 2 weeks.. It makes you extremely happy and love life more so only reason the government makes it illegal, my guess would be because they don’t want us happy. They’d rather have us dependant on them then be free thinkers. Theirs my 2cents worth
Are you talking about pot? That’s the only illegal drug I know of that is actually beneficial (proven in a study by UCLA ) to you. If so then my opinion is legalize it. If not pot then you should specify which one(s) you mean.
Drugs should be legal all the way.
Why? Well I putted a link down there with the reasons,
because anything good for us they dont want us to have….thats what it seems like to me…..cigarettes you can have…..even though the addiction is as high as some drugs like cocaine…..plus you know the 4/5,000 chemicals in it…sure no problem……but marijuana which is known to have so many benefits in and out of the human body…. of course you cant have……the FDA will go and approve some drug thatll give you heart attacks, blood clots, kill your liver and kidneys, among many other horrible side effects……but oh no echinecea which is proven to boost the immune system and has NO harmful side effects…..nope the FDA cant appove that …. hmmmm
there is more money in putting people in jail and making them felons than making stuff like weed legal lets say your busted with some pot depending on were you are you can go to jail and have to bond out $ hire a lawer $ pay court cost$ pay probation fees $ pay restetution $ pay for drug classes $ not to mention the money the jail your in gets for each inmate every day from the government$ so if they lagalised it there would be only one $ tax stamp hope i was helpfull. also creats jobs for people who seek jobs in law infocement make drugs legal and the work force at wal mart sky rockets
No drugs are harmless, not even common ones like aspirin. However, much of the purpose of the drug laws is so that the infrastructure put in place during prohibition would still have something to do after it was repealed. Also some artificial textile companies pushed the criminalization of marijuana so that hemp fiber wouldn’t compete with their products. For the record I don’t advocate the recreational use of any drug.
I think they should be made legal.
They are illegal now because many people in America seem to have the idea that laws should be based on what is or isn’t considered moral rather than on what is causing harm.
personal choice
legalize marijuana, shrooms and lsd, all soft core drugs, alcohol is way more damaging drug than any of those..
some people need to read books and get their head out of the propaganda fed bullSH#T fed from stupid health books, provided in high school
First, I think we need to start by acknowledging that, when it comes to any toxic substance, there’s no such thing as “harmless.”
Second, IMHO, “harmfulness” is irrelevant to the bigger question of whether it is okay for any government to restrict any individual citizen’s access to or entitlement to freely use any toxic substance.
Third, I think we have to be very careful to factor in the element of time when it comes to knowing what’s harmful and what isn’t. In the 20th Century, Marijuana, LSD and coccaine all underwent dramatic transformations in how “harmful” they were considered based on an influx of new data that accompanied increased usage. Ditto for alcohol and tobacco, by the way.
As Americans we are in a continuing state of flux in trying to develop the right “recipe” for government involvement in our daily lives. We want to be unencumbered ourselves but still free from harms generaged by the unencumbered behavior of others.
The big 64-dollar question is still who is entitled to say yes or no to what?
Harmfulness has nothing to do with it.