Getting high: the philosopher's take on the criminalisation of drugs

well the REAL solution is obviously to ban coffee and chocolate as well.

So how in the hell do you regulate weed? How do you prove someone smoked up before or during work? How do you prove someone smoked up before or during driving? The only way to prove anyone smoked at all is a urine or blood test, and even then you can't tell WHEN someone smoked, or how much.

And if you say that people can smoke even then, then you're not regulating it.

this headline reads " THE philosophers take on ... " and then it's just some professor from some community college satellite campus mouthing off . what are his academic credentials ? so he teaches philosophy , holy shit . after a few bong hits everyone is a philosopher .

With marijuana you can't smoke so much that you become impaired like a fifth of whatever that kills so many.
The number one drug thats abused is booze, thats why so many aa places.

Yup, to make something "bad", sometimes all you have to do is declare war on it and make up propaganda accordingly. The only problem with drugs is, they are more easy than sex, and than can be problematic in the wrong hands.

Take the profits (incentive) away from the criminals, and you won't have any more criminals in that area.

Alcohol? Is John McCain's wife and her family criminals?

Legalize weed for spiritual introspection?

ummm seriously? i can't believe they are saying ganja will soon be equal to ecstasy. that's unbelievable.

The government can regulate and tax anything. How would regulation of Weed be any different than alcohol or tobacco?

Yes people would grow there own weed, but as a capitalist society connivence and safety will tower over self supply.

one of the main reasons they will never legalize marihuana is because it will be nearly impossible to regulate it and will be nearly impossible for uncle Sam to tax it, when used as it mains porpose "recreationally". Mariguans is well... "a weed" it grows ANYWHERE. If it's legal., why wouldn't anyone be able to grow of in their backyard? sure there's the comercialisation of HEMP, but would take a while for thaat train to get going.

I agree, but I have a fantasy of going to a vending machine and there all all types, I am a woman.

if you can tax weed, it will never be legal. the way things are now the gov. needs to make money off of everything they can, not legalizing weed so people can grow and sell for their own profit. im sure the tax the hell out of those medical marrijuana places.

decriminalization would Defenitly empty Jails, prisons. Hemp could have also competed against clths better, and last century Alcohol was illegal too, more evil than pot, but moralists could get more F$%^ed up so back it came.

legalize and regulate. Pure and simple you will never when by telling people what they cant do.

People are going to do what they want and hope they dont get caught.

In a system that actually cares about the people they would have realized that the first time a prohibition failed.

did anyone else notice that they are planning to have marijuana and ecstacy in the same class? that is ludacris.

"Outlawing things is a godsend to criminals, who are energetic entrepreneurs and who will provide what people want at great profit to themselves and great cost to society.." The article speaks for itself!

Prohibition is that peculiarly American institution in which we pretend we are morally superior to the rest of the world while in private we cant get high fast enough off all our drugs, booze, cigarettes, gluttony, love of money and drama

So, Paris Hilton making a Porn video and now a Marijuana video. Hey, this is quite close to Britney Spears.

Quite some icons and example for the Marijuana world!

Yeah, Al Capone!

Is that Paris Hilton in that picture?

I don't think it should be a matter or arguing why to decriminalize it, but why is it still illegal? That's what should be asked.

It's harmful? No, a lot safer than alcohol, and even caffeine. Based on a 30 year research by the British medical journal, The Lancet, smoking marijuana has proven to not do any harm to the human body at all. It's mind altering? Not as nearly as much as alcohol, and with the right tolerance it's barely mind altering at all. Gate way drug? That's proven to be false for quite some time now. Millions of people smoke pot and are very anti-hard drugs and actually a lot of pot smokers are anti-alcohol as well. Drug war a success? Not even nearly, seeing how it's been illegal for over 80 years and almost half the nation today has smoked pot. Decreases crime? Keeping it illegal will maintain the crime rate, if not keep on increasing it. You can eliminate all pot-related crime if you decriminalize it.

cocain heroin, things that can kill should still be illegal. but if weed is legal it might show everyone that you dont need all those f'ed up drugs.

legalizing drugs will free up the prison system for real criminals.