When you get low on conciousness, you will lose your reasoning, at least weaken it. It's the same as if you are really angry, you loose reasoning. And without a good reasoning you may think doing something just fine, even though it's horrible.
See? This is the problem with talking to people about the effects drugs have with someone who has never tried them. If you actually do something you normally wouldn't while you're high, than it's not just the drug. Sort of like some people do things they regret later when they're angry. Should we make it illegal to be angry too, because of the possible problems it could cause?
Wake up, I don't know if you live in the US or not, but billions of tax dollars are going into a war that cannot be won. Drug use has not stopped, or even lessened. The prisons are full of first offense pot smokers who are nonviolent.
As long as they smoke marijuana and dont disturb anyone else, that's fine. But what makes such thing guaranteed to happen? That's why we need law, to protect other's people interest from other's people abusal.
Who do you think is worse, someone who's high or someone who's drunk? Have you ever been disturbed by someone who was high, how about someone who was drunk? People get disturbed all the time, outlawing a drug to stop the possibility of someone being disturbed is completely absurd.
Alcohol kills thousands of people a year (not including accidents while driving) and people who are drunk are usually violent and belligerent.
Come on, such people need stong self constitution and how many people do you think can use drugs (i mean illegal drugs) appropiately?
How many people use legal drugs appropriately? Answer that, think of all the drunk driving incidents there are, that's not to say there are no incidents of people getting in accidents while high, but there's significantly less. Do you think that all illegal drugs are terrible and outlawed for good reason because they make you go crazy or what? Trust me, alcohol is much worse than cannabis.
Didn't the US learn anything from the attempt to prohibit alcohol? It ended up raising crime, and people didn't stop. If someone wants to smoke cannabis, they will, regardless of the law, should we really be spending money on trying to bust some 14 year old kid who wants to try it?
"So what's the solution? Legalization. By legalizing drugs the government can control the distribution and standardize dosages, thus preventing overdose deaths. The $400 billion now wasted on the war on drugs would easily fund clinics to distribute these drugs and to offer withdrawal programs for those who wish to break their habit.
Additionally, by eliminating the profit motive from the illegal sale of drugs, street crimes, including burglary, robbery and murder would plummet. Addicts would not have to steal to supply their habits and drug lord turf wars would end, just as they ended at the repeal of prohibition. Prison populations would also decline as non-violent offenders are released.
Currently, it is easier for a teenager to buy marijuana than to buy beer or tobacco. By selling marijuana through drug stores, teenagers would lose access to the drug and high taxes on the product would add to government coffers instead of draining them."