Originally Posted By: GiveMeAVowel
The problem is that we are now on a slippery slope, when you legalize pot, what will be next, crack, heroin?
Don't get me wrong I am NO fan of alcohol either....
the only reason it was consumed in earlier times was because often the water was not potable and it was substituted...
People relying on a chemical crutch has become an epidemic in the USA and is only getting worse, it reminds me of what happened in I think Peru with some leaf all the locals chew that gives the effect of a intoxicating drug, most of them are now a bunch of lazy, worthless bums.
Many relatives of heroin are already legal, but controlled, in the form of prescription or hospital administered pain killers. The proliferation of those is why heroin is back and growing in popularity again. Many people who become addicted to opiate pain killers eventually move on to heroin. It is far more damaging than pot, and really the opiate situation in the US is what's already out of control, not pot.
And even if you were to just ban all drugs, people would still make them. That Pandora's box was opened a long time ago. The problem is when you ban known, somewhat controllable substances, people will go out and create new things that are far more dangerous (bat [censored] crazy dangerous), such as bath salts, spice, flakka, etc. A lot of that stuff is coming from China too...even with legitimate goods, their health and safety track record isn't exactly spotless. I can't imagine the standards for a recreational, synthetic drug that is illegal in most of the US, but winds up here in mass quantities.
And even with every drug known to man still available all over the US regardless of the law, there are apparently people who huff Brakleen.