Thread: Let us beat a dead horse(drugs stuff)

Originally Posted by coqauvin

gismo, the government cannot, i meant CANNOT, condone recreational drug usage. The only drugs that they will allow are those involved with medicine and curing people.

Most governments in the world already condone at least a few recreational drugs that have no medical application. I know that what you mean is "recreational drugs that are currently illegal", rather than just "recreational drugs" in general, but still.... the legality of things like alcohol and tobacco undermines your claim that governments will never ever allow any drug that doesn't have a medical application.

Originally Posted by coqauvin

It goes against the culture of every country on this planet to publically support drug use, and anyone in power who suggested it would be suacked like nobody's bsiness.

Originally Posted by coqauvin

What matters is that they are still drugs, they still cost lives and workforce energy, create black markets for crime and that cannot, and will not, ever be even tacitly endorsed.

A number of countries and localities around the world have already decriminalized, for instance, marijuana without the politicians responsible for the decriminalization being "sacked". Surely outright decriminalization is at least as much of a "tacit endorsement" as a reduction in the drug's ranking on the DEA Schedule or other severity index? I disagree that it's automatically political suicide for the government to ever take any action that might conceivably be perceived as an admission that a drug isn't as dangerous as once thought. It depends completely on public opinion towards the particular drug in question, and what exactly the government does.