I'd like to give some background. I am college-educated, and so is my roommate. My roommate is a bit older than me, which is why his bad ideas are so unforgivable.
I'm going to toy around with the format of this blog, but I think it will probably stay similar to what it is now. I'll give the terrible idea, and then break it down.
1. All drugs should be legalized and taxed.
Someone needs to explain to me in such a world, how we would prevent the crack cocaine corporations, no longer illicit and allowed to have advertising and marketing, from predatory marketing or something. I mean, look at the market penetration of Red Bull, with their advertising and their Red Bull girls giving away free drinks. Imagine walking into a club with a bunch of sexy girls handing out some new addictive drug protected by pharmaceutical patents, so that the club can start selling it at a ridiculous price the next week. Red Bull is the example - think about that 8 oz can that sells for $2 retail and like $8 in a club, and ask yourself why leisure drug companies wouldn't do the same thing. And then ask yourself if that hypothetical world would be better than ours. I highly doubt it.
Another thing - what happens to prescription drugs? There's no reason for Tylenol 3 to not be available over the counter when heroin is. Unless they're all available only with a prescription, but I don't think that it's what my roommate had in mind.
Basically, there are all sorts of kinks that need to be worked out before we can even call this idea anything other than ridiculously retarded. I don't doubt that most of my initial concerns can be addressed by 'solutions,' but the most annoying thing was that my roommate hadn't thought out ANY of these problems before vehemently arguing that this was a fantastic idea, and that you had to be a retard not to like it.
And this is the pattern - my roommate presents a sweeping, revolutionary idea without thinking about it past a superficial level, and then passionately argues with no evidence, only speculation (poorly reasoned speculation, at best) about what "would" or "should" happen. He ignores evidence against his ideas and openly embraces any supporting evidence.
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Do you think it could be as controlled or as accepted like it is in the Netherlands?
...and the worst thing about SPC BadIdea's views on drug legalization is that he completly dicounts the effects that such an action would bring about, articularly in regards to children. For, in a societ where crack and smack are legal, what would prevent kids from starting to use these horribly destructive drugs at the same ages that certain groups of children begin smoking cigarettes?
sw4ng,
I don't ever think that crack cocaine could be legalized and accepted, no. The bad idea was not legalizing marijuana, it was legalizing ALL drugs, from cocaine to meth to PCP.
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