06-07-2005, 02:34 PM
Tal,Jun 7 2005, 12:56 PM Wrote:I think the very issue at hand is whether or not legalizing is a good thing. As to claims that legalization will reduce crime, make sure that users only get "good healthy stuff" and that the government would be able to have any control over the use of a drug that is as easy to grow in your back yard as kentucky blue grass, well that is pie-in-the-sky idealism.
----well no it is not. That is the way it goes here in Holland. It means that if you want to use some softdrugs, you are not obliged to deal with criminal people. If you want to get some beer you go to the shop, where the nice gentleman give you a few beers for a few dollars. Same with softdrugs. Then again, if it is not allowed, you have to go to Al capone and his friend to get your beer. :D
But as you and others always want to have numbers (and I don't know where to find anything on internet..) let's state it like this. Has ever in history of mankind something that was illegal not been used anymore? Your bootlegging, for example.
You're sure of this? Care to provide a representative study, free from bias to back up this claim? You may also wish to use population percentages since the United States has a much larger population than Holland.
---the percentage I mentioned was supposed to be a population percentage. ANyway, why don't you tell me an aasumption. (percentage of kids that have used softdrugs in highschool) And while we're at it percentage of kids that dnnak alcohol before their 18th birthday.
Apples and oranges.
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--yes but my main question was, what makes the one an apple and the other one an orange?