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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 261468" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p>In my opinion the laws regarding which mood-altering substances are legal, illegal, or by Rx only are somewhat arbitrary and illogical. Pot is much milder than alcohol, for instance. It does with long-term frequent use develop a psychological (not physical) addiction and have a deleterious effect on motivation: makes you lazy and apathetic, in other words. It certainly harms the lungs -- you could counter the brain-cancer argument with increased lung-cancer risk, I would think. The "gateway drug" argument is only valid insofar as any drug at all, legal or not, can be considered a gateway drug; also, an illegal drug might open the door to the idea of using other illegal drugs on the "I might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb" theory, but that is only a function of it being illegal, not any intrinsic property of the drug itself.</p><p> </p><p>I would be in favor of rationalizing the drug laws and penalties based on harmfulness/addictiveness, I think. I do not think that drug use by itself, without violence or selling, should be dealt with by jail or prison -- I think some sort of mandatory treatment would work much better and relieve prison overcrowding at the same time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 261468, member: 3485"] In my opinion the laws regarding which mood-altering substances are legal, illegal, or by Rx only are somewhat arbitrary and illogical. Pot is much milder than alcohol, for instance. It does with long-term frequent use develop a psychological (not physical) addiction and have a deleterious effect on motivation: makes you lazy and apathetic, in other words. It certainly harms the lungs -- you could counter the brain-cancer argument with increased lung-cancer risk, I would think. The "gateway drug" argument is only valid insofar as any drug at all, legal or not, can be considered a gateway drug; also, an illegal drug might open the door to the idea of using other illegal drugs on the "I might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb" theory, but that is only a function of it being illegal, not any intrinsic property of the drug itself. I would be in favor of rationalizing the drug laws and penalties based on harmfulness/addictiveness, I think. I do not think that drug use by itself, without violence or selling, should be dealt with by jail or prison -- I think some sort of mandatory treatment would work much better and relieve prison overcrowding at the same time. [/QUOTE]
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