A bad parent is a bad parent; they can do coke, heroin, meth, but in the end they are just a bad parent. Making drugs illegal won't solve that problem in any major way, as we have seen a drug increase over the 40 years of the "War on Drugs".
Coke can fuck you up if you do it every day, so I agree it can fuck you up in the long run. Clean heroin/opiates on the other hand have been proven to not have long term negative effects.
Well, welcome to America, rendering an employee useless isn't really a big deal since he/she can get fired. And besides, life isn't all about work, so some people who use cocaine, don't really care because they are stuck in a working class system where they have a hard time advancing.Also, saying people are obligated to work or are useless is a pretty ignorant statement, because I think people should be able to do what they wish, as long as they don't interfere with other people's freedom.
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it doesn't just hurt the one taking it, it hurts everyone
Cocaine never hurt me, so it obviously doesn't hurt everyone.
So it is ok to "fuck up your life", just so as long as it takes long?
Possibly, but not absolute. That is your opinion, we don't know if it would be smuggled until we tried legalizing it and set the prices.
We tried one solution (War on Drugs). But because the War on Drugs has been a complete failure for 40 years with drug use increasing, that doesn't mean there is no solution. There possibly might be a solution to helping addicts. One solution can be harm reduction, which would help addicts "recover" from their obscene drug use without putting them in the slammer - where they have access to drugs also in some cases.
Everyone who snorts coke is not weak minded, only to you they are weak minded.
We don't know if it will compound the problem. Right now, coke is fairly easy to get anywhere in the United States, so we would have probably seen some major effect if your statement was the case.
I'm not sure how many adults use hard drugs to look cool, but I'd imagine people use drugs to feel euphoric, not impressing their friends.
If you're talking on a nation wide scale, the minority would probably be people affected by cocaine.
Yes, I'm not the only person on Earth, but I only have one life on Earth, so I should be able to do what I want to my body while I am still alive, because I only get one chance.
What can be done is legalize cocaine/heroin, and if people break the law because of drugs or any other reason; treat that as a criminal matter. Don't make just possessing or using the drug a criminal offense. Most drug users aren't violent criminals.
Cocaine was made illegal because the police in the South thought the blacks were using it and gaining super human strength and would rape the white women. This caused a moral panic and the next thing you know, cocaine is illegal. Cocaine is illegal because of racist reasons, you can research that yourself. And during this craze, the guns used by officers were upgraded in calibur because they thought their old lower calibur pistols wouldn't be able to kill the coke crazed negro.
Overall, my stance is that I have one life on Earth and I should be able to enjoy it as I wish to enjoy it. I say make drugs legal; and if people get stupid because of the drugs, use the criminal justice system. As for the people who just use psychoactive substances for recreation, let them enjoy.
We need to take on a harm reduction approach at this point, because prohibition of drugs doesn't work, period. A better option is to decriminalize it and treat addiction to drugs as a health matter. That "just say no" tag is just useless according to statistics, so harm reduction definitely needs to get a fair chance at helping aleve the addicts problem with drugs.