Quote Originally Posted by CoccoBill View Post
Why would there be more meth heads, would you pick up the habit if they were legal? Do you personally know anyone who would? It's not like them being illegal is stopping any of the current users, I'm not convinced everyone and their mom would immediately start using if they became legal. I'd bet experimenting with them would be less tantalizing for kids, since that would remove much of the mystique surrounding them.
There would be more meth heads because something previously illegal became legal. Are you suggesting that illegality plays absolutely NO role in deterring behavior? Thats a pretty hard position to maintain.

I am absolutely against kids "experimenting" with heroin, meth, or any other highly addictive, and dangerous drug. Addictive and dangerous is not rhetoric.

Drugs are expensive because they're illegal, and a big part of the havoc they wreak is due to their legal status. Users are outcast from society, family ties are broken, mere possession can land you in jail. Good luck getting a job as a junkie, so stealing and burglaries become a viable choice, especially when they're probably even penalized less than merely using drugs. Of course many drugs are dangerous and do have seriously fucked up effects on individuals and society, but a lot of these could imo be alleviated by legalization, or even depenalization.

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Sure. Programs in the US have had good success. Needle exchange programs, for example, tend to reduce ODs and use, in addition to lowering the risk of HIV needle transmission. One reason for this may be that people establish connections with others who can help them through whatever it is theyre going through. If heroin was dirt cheap, you wouldnt need as much money to buy it and you wouldnt necessarily commit property crimes for money.

But this isnt the whole truth. Hanging my hat on just meth for a moment, the crimes are not always monetary based. In fact, due to the damage meth does to the brain, many of the crimes are done because the guy just cant function anymore.

Idk if legal status has anything to do with getting a job though. Certainly prior convictions effect that, but being a junkie alone is enough to make a business owner pick someone else.