Decriminalisation / legalisation within 20-30 years?

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April 17, 2007 at 2:31 pm

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I’ve been wondering if this is now becoming a possibility?

I think it could arrive from one of two scenarios..

1] a genuinely progressive UN debate across all nations which led to the UN single convention on Narcotic Substances being renegotiated and each sovereign states laws changing towards decriminalisation / acceptance of recreational use…

2] a global conflict escalating, and drugs restrictions (particularly on stimulants) being abandoned – maybe even with some use of drugs encouraged, to increase productivity of the local workforce and to lessen the pain of the emotional costs of warfare…

I would like to see [1] but I suspect its more likely [2] could happen; as this has already been the case during World War II.. (the use of amfetamines was common amongst soldiers, politicians and civillians and persisted well after the war ended)
April 17, 2007 at 3:20 pm

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The war on drugs only serves those who gain their budgets enforcing it and, in this country, even they are starting to admit it is not the best way forward.

I hope they decriminalise it, removing the taboo and taking us back to pre-victorian times when all the drugs were legal.

We are losing a lot of very good people to the harder drugs right now as they get sucked into habitual drug use and are too scared to ask for help until it is too late.

Every one we lose leaves a family and loved ones behind to deal with the fallout and try and rebuild their lives – in effect the victim’s survivors are sentenced to a life of suffering that loss with no possibility of parole and it shouldnt be this way :hopeless:

Removing the prohibition and explaining the real consequences of drug use honestly [risks and benefits] would make some drugs extremely uncool to many, many people.
April 17, 2007 at 3:50 pm

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Raj wrote:

The war on drugs only serves those who gain their budgets enforcing it and, in this country, even they are starting to admit it is not the best way forward.

even looking at it in this way the numbers still don’t add up

its not as if the Police and criminal justice system would suddenly become obsolete if recreational drug use were legal, there would be less shoplifting and theft maybe but I still think some humans would be dysfunctional enough to commit all sorts of crime whether they were on drugs or not.

The resources currently spent on dealing with drug offences could be diverted to more socially positive things like road safety and combating genuinely anti-social behaviour…
April 17, 2007 at 3:57 pm

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Raj

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The prime movers in drug prohibition were and are the North Americans. [something to keep their enforcement services in work after the end of the Cold War]
April 17, 2007 at 4:08 pm

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MisterDuck

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I can see it happening. I have had debates about it with the most authoritarian (or they think they are, when you really put them on the spot, they aren’t so much) and they wholeheartedly disagree with drug use, and the idea of it even being accepted, let alone completely legal.

However, they cannot argue for shit against it. The benefits for all are so obvious as anything. There are so many really logical reasons why drug prohibition should be scrapped, it’s ridiculous that drugs are still illegal.

I think it will be proposed and blocked a few times before it is finally pushed through. But then that’s probably expected, just gotta wait for the old-fashioned people who think all drug users are addicts to pop off! :laugh_at:

I think drug use is now accepted as part of our society (if not condoned). I can openly admit to my boss(es) that I have taken drugs and no repercussions will come – and they are middle-aged conservatives. My old boss would share a spliff with me after the shift, although he was quite young.
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