You give the people waaaay too much credit. Unless they make “meth light”, the addictive and destructive properties of the drug cannot be underestimated.
I can see the college scene being big consumers of legalized meth in order to help them with their studies or just to get fucked up. Energy Drinks would go under overnight because he the fuck wants caffeinated sugar water when you have mutha fuckin’ METH?
this is so very true of the college scene. It happens a lot as it is. Still, arene’t there ways to limit the amount sold? I was thinking that if it’s unscheduled and regulated like alcohol(but much stricter) the damage should be easier to contain.
ok maybe its just me but meth is really easy to get if you want it, yet majority of people do not do it. thank god. then again it could be because i live in washington state, and in eastern washington all the hillbillies do there is grow meth out of their labs. apparently we’re home to the meth capitol of the world. all i’m saying is i know shady people who had access to meth, and i never bothered with it and luckily neither did the majority of people i knew. those who did have seen their lives spiral downward.
natural selection works wonders. only real issue would be if they committed violent crimes to get their next fix, but if it were legal then they could open meth cafes like the korean internets cafes, and they can get high peacefully until they die.
I’d have to take fishjie’s side on this one, people wouldn’t suddenly up and start doing meth if it was legal. Same with crack. And ‘regulating’ it would just make people cook it up at home. Meth, cocaine, heroin, yeah those three would never get legalized.
Which they do already, I knew a person who lived in a trailer park with several meth labs o_o
Think of how much money goes towards the war on ‘drugs’ aka Marijuana. Take that money, and just go after the bigger drugs instead. On that note, I’m always amazed at how fucking stupid the police forces must really be, considering how easy it really is to find virtually any drug you want or need.
I’m pretty sure anyone who wants meth can make it. Your “rig” could be as small as a coke bottle at this point. Would be nice to at least cut down on idiots blowing their faces off trying to make it (and the environmental damage they do dumping the leftover materials into lakes), or stifling some of the demand that fuels the mexican drug cartels.
lol I have to admit, America has it good/bad. They’re basically surrounded by quality drugs. An insane amount of Canadian marijuana coming from the north, and then tons of filthy mexican drugs smuggled inside anuses from the South.
People against felons voting are giving our fucked up justice system way too much respect.
One big reason to be against it is that it disproportionately disenfranchises minorities. Im not trying to get into an argument on how differently minorities are treated by the justice system but facts are facts. This has a huge effect on the voting power of certain minorities who make up large chunks of the prison population.
I in no way mean to be mean with my reply, but this statement shows you have never been taught how money, taxes, and business works. I’m not making fun of you, school doesn’t teach this because they have no idea how it works. There is a few points to understand.
#1. Corporations pay ZERO taxes or wages. The customers who buy the products do. All the taxes, wages, and costs are figured into the price of the product we pay. When the cost of doing business goes up in the form of taxes, either the price of the product goes up, the quality goes down, labor costs go down (fire, lay off, or out source labor), or reduce the tax bill by moving the company to another city/state/country.
#2. Minimum wage increases make everyone more poor. When you increase the minimum wage it sounds like this puts more money into the hands of people, but it does the opposite. lets say we have a min. wage of $10 now let’s raise it to $12. That extra $2 per man hour is worked into the price of every product and service, which is passed on to any other business that buys that product or service. Many labor unions have their wages indexed to the min. wage as well. Now the money you have buys much less things. And the person who hired in at $10/hr who busted their ass to get that $2 raise, is now back to min. wage. Then there is the secondary effect of how it shrinks the value of loans. If a debt is smaller because you inflated the currency thru a min. wage increase, that leaves less capitol for a bank to lend out, so they take less risks (they stop lending to poor people)
#3. There is a direct relation to tax levels and household wealth. The USA has one of the highest tax rates in the world, higher than Canada, and the average Canadian household is $40,000 richer than a US household. Rich people are fleeing France for the UK because of tax increases. Texas and Florida are better off than California and New York because it costs too much money to live in those states if you are a tax payer.
#4. Most of the personal tax returns of $250,000+ are Sub Chapter S corporations and Limited Liability Companies(LLC). These two types have a “flow through” tax structure. That means the profits and losses flow through the company and go straight to the owners tax return(s). This avoids the double taxation that a Sub Chapter C corporation has (the income is taxed once when it is made, and a second time when the profits are paid to share holders). To let you know scale, An average restaurant with 50 employees can easily has $1 million in sales. To take money away from your bosses increases the chances you won’t have a job because there isn’t a Magick Money Fairy that pays for labor and tax increases. The quickest way to reduce costs is to unload your workers, because you can’t be sure if you raise prices that the level of sales remain the same.
there has to be a solution to poor people not having the funds to buy things. EVERYTHING is priced towards families or middle class people. You think somebody on minimum wage goes and buys brand new furniture? So what we need to do, is either raise minimum wage while freezing prices across the country, or better yet, find better ways to keep money in the hands of the poor (my vote has always been lowering rent costs). Current system doesn’t work, and will only get worse.
It may be easy to get, but I feel a big reason people don’t seek it out on a larger scale is because you have to drive into the society’s asshole to score some. When was the last time you saw a meth dealer hanging out at some high end parties dealing out his product to the rich folks? Nah, you have to drive to methtown to get your fix and deal with the dregs of the Earth first hand unless you’re lucky enough to “know” someone who can pick it up for you.
Now if you eliminate that little nuance and make meth available to buy in a nice safe, legit environment, then you’ll see a surge in usage by the more “respectable” types.
College kids by nature are naive, stupid and are generally in their experimental phase in life. Throw that in with a high susceptibility to peer pressure and you’ve got the perfect storm for a serious shit show.
As for pot quality in different regions; I never knew how much of a difference there was between Northern and Southern weed until I lived 6 months in Alaska. I was basically holed up with three other guys during the winter season with nothing to do but drink and partake in various “products” and that’s when I experienced the Canadian stuff. To this day I refuse to partake in anything that isn’t north of the mason dixon line.
I know I brag about Canada, and also our weed, but I’m serious when I say that every time I’ve entertained Americans, they are always blown away by the quality, and how easy it is to get.
That being said, I think it’s safe to say a HELL of a lot of the weed just across the border is obviously Canadian weed. It isn’t that hard to fly a private plane across the border and throw a few pounds out the window into a nice open field.
or run a model train full of weed across the border
This. Texas isnt doing the USA any good. What an ass backwards state.
Drug Talk
Drugs need to be legalized. The government needs to sell manufacturing and distribution licenses that come attached with strict regulations, quality standards, and industry reporting guidelines. The purpose of legalization isn’t to acknowledge that some currently restricted chemicals are at worst innocuous; it’s to undercut the murders and thefts around drug traffic and sales, it’s to take out a massive funding source of existing gangs and warlords, it’s to reduce health care costs by ensuring consistent chemical purity and ridding the market of drugs cut with literal poisons like with what happens with cocaine and heroin today. Also, with vendors reporting demand and sales, it’s alot easier to set up effective rehabilitation centers. Yes, some people will continue to sell drugs illegally, some will continue to run shoddy homemade labs, but most of the market will go to the big pharmaceutical companies who already synthesize extremely pure versions of common street drugs.
ps in some states one oz of weed is felony possession JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
pretty much. i knew lots of straight-laced chicks that ended up strung out on coke in college simply bcuz they could get it so easily. meth isn’t a huge problem where i’m from, but i wouldn’t want that shit to be readily available in my community.
weed is funny because a lot of weed does come from canada, but a lot of the really big grow houses and farms in america are up by the border, too.
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No offense but I’d rather have my post quoted and relevantly answered by someone with an IQ above single digits.
You thinking that legalizing drugs that aggitate and cause paranoia is okey dokey, is beyond silly.