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I agree totally with that. But do you not think that young people are drawn to drugs because they are illegal? Because it is "dangerous"? Young people, myself included when I was young (a long time ago), are drawn to the rebellious side of life and always will be. If drugs were legal is it not possible that less people would use them? Just a thought.

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well no, as the law currently stands, you can be in trouble for taking certain drugs, however how those laws are sanctioned at the moment are questionable.

to be a "law abiding citizen" then you dont have a choice.

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No, I don't.

I think young people take drugs because they make you feel absolutely fantastic...initally.

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Without being criminalised?

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Can't argue with your second point at all. Still disagree with you on the first though, although it is a matter of conjecture.

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Read the thread.

Already discussed.

Of the thousands of people I've known who take drugs, not one of them has been done for personal possession, in the last 'turn-a-blind-eye' two decades.

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and should we really care, how many do? i think drugs are not allowed, to control the masses, you dont want an entire economy brought to its knees, cos everyone is out of their face, did we not face the same issues with the gin joints of victorian london?

i am sure throughout history, you will find cases of "the lower classes", using something as escapism from their pitifull lives.

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Argue away.

You'll still be wrong.

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i was simply reiterating the point, as you were yours!

just because, you "dont get caught, or punished" doesnt mean its not a criminal action, that you have undertaken

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I don't know of anyone now, who'd like to take drugs, but are too afraid, because of their legal status.

Do you?

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and i dont know any one legged irish banjo players, do you

and if not doesnt mean they dont exist, now does it?

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Er...I've never said otherwise.

In law, possession of an illegal narcotic is a crime.

In reality, as it stands, you'll never be charged for possession for personal use.

Nor would you have been, for the last twenty years.

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surely the Volsted act, in america, proved that all that you do is create crime, through prohibition, not irradicate it.

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but you implied, that anyone has the choice now, although we have established that they dont actually have a choice, if they wish to stay within the law

certainly they have a choice without fear of judicial retribution, but thats not the same

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Oh dear, I think they might be right.

Tenage weed smokers do impair their I.Q,