The Wall

[CoccoBill]

I actually don't know what specific procedures are in place to test pilots for alcohol, but there are 21,000 flights a day, just domestically, in America, and crashes almost never happen. So I suspect whatever they're doing, is working. Also, don't confuse "error" with "catastrophe"

Well that's all besides the point anyway, which was that I personally don't make a big distinction on substances based on their legal status, but rather their effects. The only major objective property differentiating alcohol from hard drugs is its legal status. We've waged a war on drugs for decades, and it can be argued things have gotten exponentially worse because of it.

I highly recommend you look a little deeper into the difference between 'legal', and 'decriminalized'. You CAN'T buy meth legally in Portugal, or anywhere in the world. If you get caught possessing it, you're still in trouble, just not alot of trouble. If you get caught selling it, you're still in trouble, alot of trouble.

I used Portugal as an example to show the possibilities of relaxing drug laws. You can buy several drugs that are illegal in one place legally in another, nowadays even in the US. If drugs were legal, sold by government sanctioned parties, taxed and monitored, purity and safety measured etc. things could be quite a lot better in pretty much every conceivable sense. The only argument against it are either moral or based on a fear of everyone and their mom suddenly starting shooting dope if it ever were made legal. Obviously that's such a controversial idea that no politician would every touch it with a stick. Hell, if I were in politics, I probably wouldn't either.

Your reference above to "buy meth legally" suggests to me that you're envisioning a world where you can walk into the 7-11, and pick up some milk, some bread, a pack of gum, and a vial of meth. That is most definitely NOT what's happening in Portugal, or anywhere in the world. If you're suggesting that would be a "good thing", I think you're out of your mind.

How would it be worse than now? Or even, how would it be worse? How many current meth addicts do you think are struggling with finding a supplier? Would you pick up meth if it were legal? How many people that have never tried meth (or any other hard drug) you know that would?