Based on my own experiences growing up, there is one argument that the anti-drug crowd uses that I think is ridiculous.

"Marijuana should be illegal because it is a gateway drug to harder ones."

When I was in High School, we would either find a place that would sell us beer without I.D.'s or we would find an older person that would buy it for us. There weren't any harder drugs around the store.

However, because pot was not sold in ANY legal establishment, when we would go to buy some, it often involved going to some dealers apartment (or van) where SO MANY TIMES other drugs were up for sale in addition to pot.

If the gateway argument is a serious one, then making pot legal removes that gateway, in my opinion.

Planet_Pluto

Right on :) I agree

[QUOTE="tschooduck"]

Hmm, I'm not 100% for, some drugs should never be legalized, like the new synthetic drug called Crocodile that after just one hit causes severe damage to human body: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/krokodil-the-drug-that-eats-junkies-2300787.html other synthetic drugs as well. But I am for legalizing marihuana and several other organic drugs, Netherlands and several other countries did well when they legalized drugs. Number of users declined as the prices went up and it was legal, which put most of the criminals and drug dealers out of work lowering crime rate significantly... there are good sides and bad sides, in my opinion it is a question of what is best for the users, they will get it one way or the other, if they get it in the streets it is more danger for their health, by offering certain drugs in a legal manner you also take care of addicted people and their health, by doing that countries can lower side effects and mortality rates...

PS. I am a strong believer that legalizing drugs will not make people to quit them like some think, but it will lower crime rate and help with certain health issues that governments should be concerned about. Netherlands also lowered the number of narcotic transmitted diseases with legalization.

LJS9502_basic

This is a too general question? Indeed, why? Why not? They take care of patients that have AIDS, a man made disease... The ideal answer in a perfect world would be because that way we can get better as a society and lower the costs that government spend. But I am not an idealist and this is just an opinion, on the other hand someone should really do the math, how much money is invested into fighting drug related crime and already curing addiction and fighting it, and how much money would be spent if the drugs are legalized. If you think about it, if drugs are legalized then people pay for them, so there is your funding, maybe it would even be less of a stress on your taxes, as you do pay for fights against drug crime already...

Hmm, I'm not 100% for, some drugs should never be legalized, like the new synthetic drug called Crocodile that after just one hit causes severe damage to human body: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/krokodil-the-drug-that-eats-junkies-2300787.html other synthetic drugs as well. But I am for legalizing marihuana and several other organic drugs, Netherlands and several other countries did well when they legalized drugs. Number of users declined as the prices went up and it was legal, which put most of the criminals and drug dealers out of work lowering crime rate significantly... there are good sides and bad sides, in my opinion it is a question of what is best for the users, they will get it one way or the other, if they get it in the streets it is more danger for their health, by offering certain drugs in a legal manner you also take care of addicted people and their health, by doing that countries can lower side effects and mortality rates...

PS. I am a strong believer that legalizing drugs will not make people to quit them like some think, but it will lower crime rate and help with certain health issues that governments should be concerned about. Netherlands also lowered the number of narcotic transmitted diseases with legalization.

[QUOTE="tschooduck"]Why are you all saying that Witcher is a high performing RPG? I mean it is tough, but it runs smoothly on any newer PC, it takes time to load between new maps, but aside from that I haven't noticed anything slowing it down and I have a Dell Inspiron which is more than a year old.FelipeInside