My support for legalizing it is on the foundation that people ought to be allowed to take it, but in a perfect world, wouldn't ever take it.
My opposition to legalizing it rests in the fact that it's not an okay thing to let people poison themselves and then say there's no side effects, when there clearly are.
People say legalization won't increase use, but I haven't seen any atom bombs or machine guns or hand grenades used in crimes recently, and the most commonly illegally used drugs, even with minors (who use the most drugs) are alcohol and Oxycontin, the two legal drugs. Look at cigarettes; what high do you get from that, why would so many people take it; the only rational is it's legal.
Making it illegal does decrease use, is it the best way to go about it?
Idk, but it's not okay imo to just say "sure, blow your brains out!" without any concern.
Edited by Manoka, 06 April 2013 - 12:39 PM.