re: Question for the "legalize all drugs" crowd.

Legalize it all. If some dumb arse wants to inject heroine in his eye ball then I say let him.

I'm for the legalization of mj only right now. I use it just like a person uses beer. Golfing and relaxing around the house.

Heroine and opioids are a little different to me. Highly addictive and more life altering in my opinion. I don't mess with the hard stuff because I understand how addictive they are and once hooked, can really frick your life up. Your life becomes "how do I get more NOW". I'll admit I've never tried heroine, meth, etc, but I think I pretty much understand their possibilities. Have a friend recovering from opioid addiction. He lost his wife and job during his addiction.

let these people kill themselves.

i think doing hard drugs is wrong, but people do them anyway. i say make it easy.

i don't agree with abortion, but if someone wants to kill their offspring it isn't necessarily all bad. good that we won't have another person that'll be like them.

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I can somewhat see the legalization of marijuana, but what about the hard drugs like heroin?

We've already got a herion epidemic in some parts of the country. What the frick you think will happen if it's legalized?

I'm not ready to see high school kids shooting up heroin. Are you?

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Schoolkids? Absolutely not. Legally-competent adults, absolutely.

Same applies to motorcycle helmets, seatbelts, bungee jumping, scuba diving or auto-erotic asphyxiation. It is your body, do whatever you want with it.

With the caveat that the taxpayer does not pay the bill for your inevitable fark-up and that insurance companies have every right to write their policies in a way that excludes coverage for your risky activities.

In anticipation of the inevitable "what if" chorus, yes that also includes smoking/obesity and coverage for their related healthcare costs.

Let's start with legalization of marijuana as a first step. Regulate and tax it as we do alcohol.

Frankly, even if it was legal, I wouldn't smoke marijuana unless I had medical condition that marijuana had been proven to help. Even though the smoke from marijuana is supposed to be less damaging than smoke from tobacco, I prefer not to gunk-up my lungs with either.

I suppose THC in general would be legalized at the same time.

Let's see what happens after ten years of THC-marijuana legalization. If, as proponents say, overall drug abuse goes down then there might be other legalizations or de-criminalizations, down the pike. If, as opponents say, drug abuse and other drug related problems increase, the step needs to be rethought.

My prediction would be that there will be little change in either direction and both sides will have "studies" that prove they are correct.

I don’t care what people do to themselves of their own freewill. For over 100 years heroin was legal before the government decided it needed to tell people what to do and save them from themselves.

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I'm not ready to see high school kids shooting up heroin. Are you?

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natural selection. At least they wont be voting

Portugal decriminalized. Seems to be working.

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We aren't stopping anyone from doing them. Just criminalizing addiction. The war on drugs has been a total failure.

But no I don't think you should have people doing heroin in the street either.