For those who thought....

[Angel_de_Combate]

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

Do I have to teach you everything?

I think i can learn quite well on my own, thankyou.

Hmmmmm look..sexuallly transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy(an equally prevalent issue) will only be reduced through education of children..my son who's(now) 11 now knows about puberty, thanks to his school's sexual education policy and me of course. My daughter who's 9 asked me other night about how babies are made..now did i tell that a stork drops them off ??..or the old favourite(i mean look at the bible) that you just wake up one morning and your just pregnant ??.. No...i told her the truth. Why ? Every child has a right to know what the world is like in my opinion. Now im not talking about educating young children about sex..like 1-8..but after this age i think its totally acceptable.

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

It's lead to pretty much the largest outbreak of HIV anywhere and a massive public denial of the problem.

I might be speaking out of turn here, but i thought alot of the HIV epidemic was spread through infected men raping alot of women..

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

Ever seen how widespread the chewing of cocaine leaves is in south and central america?

Nope i havent.

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

As for marijuana, every study on it has shown it to be healthier then smoking tobacco, as in no tar and that THC is nowhere near as addictive as nicotine.

How do you explain the people who end up with medical conditions like paranoid schizrophenia..
I watched a program about marijuana and the doctors who were studying its effects..and how that if you take the drug as an adolescent it can effect your mental health far more than if your 18 and above.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...The_Evil_Weed/

Have a look for yourself, its interesting to watch..specially where they explain that..humans have a kind of biology bond with cannabis.

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

You wanna talk about legal heroin? It exists, Morphine and Codeine are both legal versions of heroin, purified and untainted. It;s not that they work as a pain killer, they just get you high enough that you don't care anymore, the problem is that they are highly addictive and in high doses, lethal. The drugs I'm suggestion should be legalized are the ones that don't seem to cause any real problems to health and what little you do get from them is not all that different then what you could get from existing means.

This would decrease crime for sure.

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

Bu in the case of marijuana its also the major cash cow of the drug trade, legalize it and you remove most gangs largest source of income.

Isnt that a good thing ?

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

Like it or not, most people picked up for marijuana are completely nonviolent offenders, more often then not they also don't do anything else illegal in their life, yet they get harsher penalties then most violent criminals and when imprisoned they are placed in with the real monsters and murderers. You don't think that f they weren't a criminal in any other capacity before they went in that aren't going to come out 10 years later now equipped with plenty of newly acquired criminal know how and the attitude toward life that will allow them to use it? Don't be so naive. Gangs are major employers, they're looking for anyone that is desperate for cash and is willing to take any type of work, and with the current public ridicule and shunning even minor offenders get outside of prison it' pretty much as if they never left prison. For many, the only place they have to turn to is to crime.

I agree here too, a member of my family has been in and out of prison for a good 6 years of his life...guess what drug he started taking first ? Cannabis...for some people its a gateway drug..to other more dangerous and more addictive drugs, as it was for him.

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

example of him and toss him into the den of lions for 15 years? Remember, fix the problem, not the symptom.

15 years !! Over here its like from 2-5 years.

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

Prohibition doesn't work, not because it's ignored, but because it allows for criminal smuggling and production to move in to fill the void that was once filled by legal means. Don't believe me? Just look at what happened to america and the small street gangs that turned into alcohol smugglers, they became some of the most powerful and feared people on the planet because they now had a massive influx of cash from the alcohol smuggling. The mafias. While the old mafias crumbled a bit after the age of prohibition they soon jumped on the illegal drug trade once it started to pick up steam in the late 1960's, leading us to the problems we have today where billions are made each year off of selling toxic drugs mixed purely to get you as addicted as possible.

Point noted.

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

I see that even after our little chat in game that you still have trouble seeing the big picture, and that what you keep going after are symptoms of a larger problem.

"Our little chat", wasnt really that productive then was it. Maybe i have trouble seeing the "big picture" because like ive said a million times..selfishly i focus on my own life. Im no a politician..im not some hippy trailblazer..hoping to save the world some day..no im a gardener.. a single parent with two children, struggling to make my own way in world. I understand these issues that effect other people..but all in all..i can do nothing. In order to tackle these issues you something i really dont have..which is people power.

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

So what way do you plan to wiggle out of this? Got anything you wanna throw into the pot? I'm more then capable of picking through any argument and I'm quite enjoying myself.

Ive tried to counterpoint what youve said and yes im very aware that you love the verbal debates.

Originally Posted by DuoMaxwell

So far you've continually described symptoms of larger problems, fixing the real problems fixes all of the symptoms as well.

So you go fix them all then...i wish the best of luck.