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CharlesBHoff
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el paso texas
May 2002
time: 05:33
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Originally posted by Giancarlo
Legalize drugs? In your dreams. Why the hell should we do that? So people can sell their **** freely in the streets without getting arrested? And maybe some cops want to work in narcotics. Several cops I know here in LA like the job they do. |
Legalize drug is the best way to kill the drug catural. If cocain was legal 1 kg will be worth 6 dollar instead 30000 dollar a kg. Heron will be worth 10 dollar a kg instead of 1000,000 dollar a kg.
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Oerdin
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of Internet Music.
Sep 2001
time: 21:33
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Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
if we legalized drugs, there would be no more overcrowding of jails in california. then we could say a lot of money. not to mention closing the narcotics division of all the police stations and transfering those guys to real crime divisions - like homicide, rape, etc. |
That's wrong. I saw a study which showed less then 5% of the people who were in jail were there solely because of drugs. It's a myth to say that legalizing drugs will solce jail over crowding because California already releases most no violent offenders to rehab programs due to over crowding.
Last edited by Oerdin on 24-02-2004 at 14:27
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Aeson
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orangesoda
Nov 2001
time: 22:33
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Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
cool stats. interesting how drug consupmtion is less likely to make you do violent crimes, since a lot of drugs chill you out, while they are more likely to make you rob houses. alkie seems to have a differnet effect, and makes people more beliigerent. |
Well, if you assume that on average, every person in the US is on illicit drugs more than 30% of the time, then you can make a case for using drugs to reduce violent crime rates. I very highly doubt that though, as only 8% of the population uses illicit drugs regularly, and while a good chunk of the remainder may use illicit drugs occasionally or once in a while, it would be virtually impossible for the 8% to pull the 'average time on drugs' up to 100% for 30% of the population (or any equivalent). Given the lack of data in this area, I don't think any hard conclusions can be drawn, so didn't make that assertion. It's too much assumption either way really.
If you do just go by the numbers though, alcohol has more of an impact on crime than drugs. Given that alcohol's effects are similar to many illicit drugs, you would have to assume it is in large part the ease of obtaining alcohol (and perhaps even it's legality) that results in it's higher costs to society. This would disagree with an argument that legalization of drugs with similar effects as being in society's best interest.
I wish there was more defined data though. (anyone know of a source?) To show things well, we need comparable counts of who uses what (lumping all illicit drugs together is bordering on useless) in the criminal (violent or otherwise non-drug violation related) and general population. Then any discrepancies could be made much clearer.
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