Should illegal drugs be legalised.

Most Definitly Not !!!

Write your comments here...we'll in that case, I won't be giving either of them a go 

I would recommend this as ‘Best Practise’ and hope that those doing otherwise would recieve the coveted ‘Darwinian Award’.

Legal Highs have just been made illegal. There were a number of deaths linked to their use and a common theme seemed to be that as they were legal they were safe. Prisons have struggled to cope with violence from people using them. Mental Health services have struggled with Drug Induced Psychosis.

Legalize drugs and things will get much worse.

I am not sure what drugs we are talking about here, as I have not been able to find the report. Is it just the lower classes B/C or are we talking class A. On balance I think I am against it. At the end of the day these drugs are often highly addictive, even more so than tobacco and alcohol.  Tobacco and alcohol are highly taxed, is it proposed that this will be the case for currently illegal drugs. If this is the case and market forces are also allowed to operate, what guarantee is there they would be any less expensive than currently. If that were the case, appart from the illegal aspects, they could still result in the same problems as currently, with people committing crimes to feed their habit.

Very good point Steve. 

Looking at the cost of drugs prescribed for health purposes, who knows what these 'recreational' drugs would cost?

Taxing drugs will not work as well as people might think. Smokers often say they are entitled to use the NHS as they pay taxes on tobacco. The last time I saw any figures it appeared a quarter of all tobacco use in Britain had no UK tax paid on it. Some is brought in legally by people returning from abroad, a lot is smuggled in but most worrying is the amount of counterfeit cigarettes which could be made from anything. Criminals will always find a way to make money whilst many people are happy to buy dodgy goods to save a few quid. It's a similar situation with alcohol. Drugs would be no different.

No

No from me too. Soft drugs lead to hard drugs.

Another no here....

What would the criminals who are currently making and supplying illegal drugs do?  I suspect they would just move on to even more damaging activities to maintain their incomes.

No from me too. Soft drugs lead to hard drugs.

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