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umm why are they two different things in this topic? They both fall under the same exact category and they both rely on the same concepts regarding government regulation. Even gun regulation is a similar concept. I don't see why people think the government regulating everything from the public's use fixes social problems, health problems, and the like. Its not the drugs that are the hazards in this situation, its the people that are willing to do irresponsible things with them, such as give a child marijuana. Sure, taking the marijuana away from his use, if that was completely possible, would fix that particular problem. But what about alcohol? Or bad parenting? Or childhood obesity? Its not black and white, stuff like this is three dimensional. It entirely depends on the persons behavior and parenting with these things, not what is available to him/her. I still don't get your point at all.
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There's a reason why drugs are so involved with social issues, and it's not simple either. The thing is, we can't just legalize everything and blame stupid people for being stupid -- let's face it, a majority of our population don't really make responsible decisions all the time. It only takes one decision to screw up your entire life and possibly other peoples'-- this can apply to anything, I bet you can name a few. I never said it was all black and white - it's
because social issues are so dimensional, we can't solve them by solving one aspect. I never said it would completely solve the issue, but it would help brighten up statistics. I don't believe legalizing drugs would solve the issue because people become stupid.
Let's take an average middle school student. This person wouldn't be doing drugs if they didn't have access because, simply, they didn't have access. What if suddenly drugs were so much easier to come by? They wouldn't have to know certain people to get them. They could be top of the class and friends with a lot of reasonable people, but they just walk into any convience store and pick up a few shots/joints/w.e they wanted. Okay, so what if it's one kid? If they don't abuse the drug, then they can be successful, right?
Now picture the same image for millions and millions of kids. People get stupid. I don't see how this is better than drug trafficking. I use kids as examples because adults often pretty much do the same things kids do.
In the end of the day, what the government does affects the people, and what people do affects the economy and social issues, and what affects the economy and social issues affects the government because they gotta deal with it all over again. You have to share some of the responsibility, because neither party can exist without the other.