by Lee Gaylord

Created on: August 04, 2008

I am in some clubs on the internet. There are people that say that drugs should be legalized. I wonder what their motive is. Do they feel that the legalization of drugs will make it cheaper for them to use drugs? Will they be able to use drugs more? Do they care about anyone other than themselves? Do they think about the effect on their children?

I feel that enough people die from drug and alcohol abuse as it is. Many are innocent victims of drunk drivers. The drunk drivers usually live through bad accidents because their bodies are relaxed when the impact occurs. They may go to jail but the victims are gone forever.

If you legalize drugs you will have more people driving under the influence of drugs. Now many to the up scale users do it at home or at a party. Legalize it and you will have bars for drugs. That will mean an increase in auto deaths.

The legalization people say that when they are legalized the people that do drugs for the excitement of doing something illegal will quit. That's BS. They are already addicted so they will not quit. Cheaper drugs will also add to the usage.

Alcohol is not as addictive as the illegal drugs. Most can have a drink every once in a while without overdoing it or getting addicted. Many times you can have a designated driver when you go out for alcohol. I really doubt that would work with cocaine or heroin.

Granted Alcohol is as bad when abused. Cigarettes are probably more addictive because of the nicotine than the illegal drugs. They kill people as does alcohol. The other drugs can kill quicker. One time can kill. The cigarette companies add more nicotine to make them more addictive. They add more to the menthol brands than the others.

A few years back a lettuce leaf cigarette came out. It did not sell because it did not have nicotine.

Why make the more addictive drugs legal and add to the problems the legal drugs cause? Do we have the right to fry our brains?

What about doctors, pilots, bus and truck drivers and other people that can take a life if they are high on drugs? The answer the legalization people have is that alcohol has the same effect. Random drug and alcohol tests will take care of that. The only way drug tests will work is if we have them every day possibly twice a day. How about before each patient, flight or when the busses and trucks start moving.

Do the parents think about their children? The children may get into their stash. If they smoke it around the children they will get a contact high. How can they tell

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