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Demand drives the drug trade, and Americans have an insatiable appetite. Why is that?
 
♪alt13 said:
Because drugs are fun
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I work for the State of Utah in a department that deals with a lot of drug addicts, and their lives do not appear to be fun at all. It doesn't seem that the fun is worth it. Then again, I have never gotten any kind of fun buzz from pain pills or alcohol (perhaps because I have never used very much of either), so I don't see the appeal and have no idea what I'm talking about. Not that this will stop me.
 
Dr. Jones said:
We should just buy Mexico for a ham sandwich, open the doors for mass immigration to America, we all move south of the border under cloak of darkness, then build wall.

Boom. Better weather.
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JazzGal said:
I work for the State of Utah in a department that deals with a lot of drug addicts, and their lives do not appear to be fun at all. It doesn't seem that the fun is worth it. Then again, I have never gotten any kind of fun buzz from pain pills or alcohol (perhaps because I have never used very much of either), so I don't see the appeal and have no idea what I'm talking about. Not that this will stop me.
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You are catching most of them after they have gone way down the rabbit hole or have hit rock bottom. That is different.
 
Stoked said:
You are catching most of them after they have gone way down the rabbit hole or have hit rock bottom. That is different.
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Perhaps, but I've learned since working here that a large percentage of crime is committed because of drugs - either under the influence or because money is needed to buy them. And I still don't see the appeal.

The War on Drugs is a failure. It's time to try something new. Decriminalization is a start.
 
JazzGal said:
Perhaps, but I've learned since working here that a large percentage of crime is committed because of drugs - either under the influence or because money is needed to buy them. And I still don't see the appeal.

The War on Drugs is a failure. It's time to try something new. Decriminalization is a start.
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I think we should start by decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of all drugs. We should allow for the legal sale of pot, mushrooms, and mdma. Legalizing the manufacture and sale of those 3 would really put it to the cartels making it harder for them to do business and satisfy most people.

Opiates, meth, cocaine, and other junkie drugs are scary but again we don't want cartels to control the situation. I think we will learn enough lessons from a first round of legalization and decriminalization to help us better address even these drugs.
 
If you don't understand the appeal of drugs, then I feel bad for you that you never lived with an open-enough heart to try them without the heaps and heaps of shame. Just to try them. Not all of them, if you're afraid. I haven't tried heroin or crack. But I've tried some, and they expanded my views on humanity and nature. Not all in some hippy-pure-love way; there were some dark reflections, too, but those were worth it.

The appeal for many drugs is goddamn obvious.
 
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NAOS said:
If you don't understand the appeal of drugs, then I feel bad for you that you never lived with an open enough heart to try them without the heaps and heaps of shame. Just to try them. Not all of them, if you're afraid. I haven't tried heroin or crack. But I've tried some, and they expanded my views on humanity and nature. Not all in some hippy-pure-love way; there were some dark reflections, too, but those were worth it.

The appeal for many drugs is goddamn obvious.
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I will just have to take your word for it. I prefer legal activity at this stage of my life. Okay, who are we kidding? At any stage of my life. Being a stick-in-the-mud has served me rather well. But I appreciate what you are saying.

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