Should we legalise heroin?
come on its the 21st century the digital era, computers, mobile phones ect.but i cant legaly buy heroin from a shop the laws out of date its ridiculous, i have to break the law to buy it so i tend to stick to the drink but i get through 20 cans a day of cider a day but sometimes i just fancy a bit of heroin but i DO want to stay on the right side of the law iam no good to my family if i get put in jail again. so legalize it YES/no?
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They already have in Liverpool.
legalize it! Legalize it ALL!
Um, no, no, and, um, lemme see, no. Grow up, get off the habit and keep your family in the fore of your mind.
No - it was illegalized for a reason. It kills people - it should definitely NOT be legalized. Nor do I think it will be.
I cannot think of any good things about herion. So, I am going to say that legalizing it would not be a good idea. Think about the abuse that it would cause among people. Lighter drugs (pot) could be legalized but...herion? Nahhh.
I cant decide if you are an A$shole or a wan-ker.... what the hell kind of question is that.
do you want to die? heroin is illegal and that's that, get over it.
it may not have crossed your mind, but when you die from it ( and YOU WILL) you will break your mothers heart.
I know, my Friend lost her son to it 7 years ago and she still hasn't got over it and she never will, what an awful thing to do to your family.
NO.
Dude - I've seen addicts coming off that Sh_t - Ouch.
You surely are not serious, they have just banned smoking and you want heroin legalised? Your family should be more important to you than heroin, if this were the case, you would not use it and therefore keep yourself out of prison.
no
Yes , then i wouldn't have to rob so much to get my fix maaan.
NO
are these people stupid?! hello, population control! legalize it!!
if people are going to do heroin, they're going to do it whether it's legal or not. same as weed... which i think should be legalized in the u.s. just so that they could tax it and make some money. sometimes this country scares me with its stupidity as far as lawmaking goes. we can smoke cigarettes (which are really worse for you than weed) and we can drive slightly drunk (i drive better high), but we can't smoke grass? i mean, i don't do any of that stuff anymore, but it does make sense to legalize it. if the government really thinks that illegal immigrants are the problem in this country, they really need to take a second look. instead of making the people who make this country go back to where they came from (which is likely similar to hell), why not just legalize something like heroin to rid our population of idiots who want to do it?
No it should not be legalised.The penalties for pushers should be greatly increased.Those that import should be imprisoned for life.They are dealers in death and misery.
Considering that the "War on Drugs" has been a miserable failure, I'm starting to think that maybe the best course of action is to legalize heroin and other drugs as well.
If it were legal, standards could be applied to the manufacturing and sales of it -- and it could be taxed to help offset some of the social costs. We'd save a ton on law enforcement and would actually be able to free up law enforcement to go back to protecting our safety and our property, rather than chasing druggies around.
Legalizing these drugs would also free the hands of physicians trying to walk a fine line between helping patients manage pain and staying on the right side of the law.
If someone is going to abuse drugs, they're going to do it whether it's legal or not. Let's get off the drug war merry-go-round.
Considering that the vast majority of deaths from heroin are either contaminants in it or a purer than usual supply so the user accidentally overdose i think there is a good argument for it being available on prescription but not legalised
If prescribing methadone is OK even though it is a more dangerous drug why not heroin.
If it was prescribed it would be self funding by having less
drug-related crime, lower criminal justice
and prison costs, lower aggregate health care
costs, and lower social welfare costs.
say they do legalise it, how do you propose paying for it? crime? staying out of jail would'nt work very well then! find a hobby, it's much cheaper, and find new freinds that arn't on heroin! or any other drugs!!
I see you point; but remember, $ talks and BS Walks. With that in mind did you kinow Herion is Not Taxed so the Gov't gets nothing for it's sale?
Did you know Alcohol and cigarettes are taxed...yet Kill 400,000 a year?
Did you also know much less than a fraction of those numbers above die from Herion overdoses?
Did you also know that Alcohol is as easy to become addicted to and moreso than Herion?
The Government will legalize it when they can find a way to tax it and step aside the political poop at the same time.
But, your right, and once it is legalized, the price will drop 95% as Johnson-Johnson and Squibb co will make it pure and cheap and the quality control will be so good, the overdoses will also drop dramatically overnight as the doses will be consistent.
To much is spent onnfighting a war that can never be won; educate and the drug issues will be minimized, as best we can.
No one should be able to tell you what you can and can't do to your body, legalize all drugs but make it illegal to damage the health of those around you with them. ( eg no chain smoking, no forcing people to take heroin etc )
It would vut crime, raise standards, damage the drug barons who distribute it and therefore reduce street crime, it can be of some use to doctors, and will increase tourism!
I DO get the irony of being allowed to legally buy a very addictive and damaging, potentially fatal drug (alcohol) but not another (heroin). However realistically there is no way I would like to see heroin legalised. It is incredibly addictive and ravages the body. To be honest if there was a way of making alcohol illegal I think it would be a good idea, but we all know what happened when they tried to do that in America. Do yourself a favour - try to reduce your alcohol intake and get some help for your heroin addiction.
No...put you in jail for a long time...COLD TURKEY>>serves you right you junkie.
It would have to be prescription only. You couldn't just have it freely available. Its a dangerous drug.
If it would help free addicts from the control of the scummy dealers then prescription heroin (while they were coming off it obviously) would be possiblity although there is already Methadone for that purpose.
Should we legalise heroin? None of the arguments you mount in your "question" actually provide a good argument in favour of the normative question I think you were actually making: i.e. shouldn't we legalise heroin?
The mere reference to time, "come on its the 21st century" is not really a good reason. Critically, there are compelling economic and sociological arguments against its declassification, and there are also interlinked health and moral arguments against its declassification. No one can seriously contend that individual autonomy is paramount without wide ranging qualifications to protect the rights and the interests of others.
These are just the surface of very complex arguments that only the academics revel in, but I worry that the environmental arguments some idiotic people are making to recycle more and be more at one with the environment will substantially alter our arguments about all sorts of other issues, including the "legalisation" of heroin.
Heroin is a highly addictive drug, you don't just have a fix and think oh thats it for a week, your body soon craves the next fix to the point you'll do anything for it. Most of the female sex workers are on 'the game' to support their habit and others rob and steal to do the same. So you legalise it, I assume it will not be given away for free, which I suspect is what you really want. Addicts would still have to pay for their fix and as the drug takes a firmer grip the more they will crave and the less able to work and earn a living they'll become and the more they'll get involved in crime. Who said that legalised heroin would be cheaper than black market heroin anyway. If you really want to frighten yourself listen to Sister Morphine by the Rolling Stones I guarantee it will burst the glamorous bubble you seem to have placed your, I suspect, Heroin addiction in.
Legalise everything but put a tax on it
No way
what planet are u on?? ... that crap destroys lives... why dont u think of ya family and start being a normal functioning human being
Heroin in the UK is already legal. It is used entensively for medical use mainly as an extremely effective pain killer. Under current drugs legislation is is what is termed a "controlled drug" .
I think what you mean is should it be decriminalised?
are you joking?? Legalize heroin?Those two words just dont even sound right togther..I think our world is screwed up enough as it is..we dont need anymore cracked out retards running around.
Why dont you get off the drugs and start being good to your family?
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