Legalizing all drugs, regardless whether they are prescribed or prohibited, is a sign of weakness in legislation, leadership and governance.

It doesn’t mean that because drug addiction - misuse, abuse, overuse - can not be totally eradicated that we need to surrender to the battle against illegimate drugs.

This is an issue of protecting the welfare of the people and not about dogma or moral principles alone. The health of every individual and the family members is of prime importance in the labor force.

Think of the future of the world if peace and order will be covered by the fear of anyone getting addicted and can move freely in the streets, especially the poor and the youth, or even those in authority.

This is a matter of vigilance rather than compliance. Even if it is difficult to conquer addiction does not mean we have to surrender. More efforts need to be placed on infested areas instead of laying down the flag of defeat against addiction.

Worse things will happen if all drugs will be legalized. It is like legalizing drug addiction and the purchasing of prohibited drugs.

Maynard Delfin
Manila, Philippines

Yea legalize the drugs, and why not this illegitimate trade even goes on covertly. It’ll work as a boon to increase crime, for drugs and alcohol are at the root of most of the crime and perhaps this is the move that we utterly need in our rapidly degenerating society today. Isn’t it? Just don’t wait, put the final nail in the coffin and let the dopiest and freaks go amuck or rather call it ecstatic, and yes, this so called ecstasy is safer than aspirin! This is the right time, just don’t go it waste.

go ahead and give yet another excuse to criminals to commit crime and say that it’s legal so it is right. Sadly it’s no solution to the problem and let aside to destroy the organized crime. My answer would be no no no a firm no that’s it.

Just shut up with your stupid idea! I think you all on the other side are crazy enough to say or even think about this. Hah! this is nothing but the gravest rubbish I have ever heard in my life. Surely they’ve no idea what they are speaking or propagating. Viz. cigarette and liquor are legal but it didn’t reduce its users rather users are increasing and increasing and increasing… who to stop them this bull shit idea. nope! above all would like to introduce himself as the dopiest while walking to the chemist shop to ask for the drug for the use, therefore it will not at all solve the drug trafficking or underground trade no matter what….

@ Panther

If other intoxicants like cigarette, tobacco which are among the major cause for the cancer related illness, are already in the market and legal and still people use these knowing the aftermaths. therefore, making drugs legal won’t bring high waters or a bolt form the blue… and the reason is simple – no one can cure the addictive personality.

It’s obvious that legalizing alcohol and ciggerates has not and did not resolve the problem of alcohol abuse and lungs cancer. So using that at a reason to legalize drugs is ridicules.

@Inspector

Prohibition of all drugs rests on a wobbly foundation for it is a medical, not a criminal, matter.

Publicity-mad chief constable says ’ecstasy is safer than aspirin’ and then he goes on sayin that we should legalize all the drugs…I think rhetoric should not be driving drug policy. Legalization would strip addiction down to what it really is – a health issue.

Decriminalization of drugs? It’s just like if you can’t beat them, join them – however, this bond would indeed open all the floodgates drowning our future generations into an abyss with no point of return. The thin line that demarcates the ‘socially’ acceptable or unacceptable actually defines what should actually be ‘legally’ acceptable or unacceptable. Drugs and all other similar substances used by us for that ‘momentary lapse of reason’ called ‘high’ will/shall never ever be accepted openly by our society, doesn’t matter how many mavericks vouch for them. We’ve to recognize that every race not necessarily means a sprint, it can be a marathon too, and this case demands more sweat and you’ll always find more number of people ready to drain out, rather than giving up. It’s not about failed leadership or legal system, it’s about failed existence.

heh heh heh!!! man, you want the kinds of pablo escobar to be the CEO’s of the largest drug companies? well, pablo is dead, but then i am sure u haven’t missed the punch.

i have never seen a more outrageous and preposterous argument as cited in this debate.

ok, regularize all guns, homemade, factory produced, village cottage industry made, coz u can’t stop killings. legalize prostitutions of all kinds (i am all for it sans child prostitution) and make child prostitution legal and collect taxes. can we stop this completely? no we can’t just as we can’t rampant drug abuse or murders or prostitution of children.

i my book, the laws should be made more stringent. it is not a lost battle yet, the battle against psychotropic drugs. we shall win only we don’t give up hope. DON’T FORGET, drug trafficking is the sole source of sustenance to terror fundings. stopping this would be endorsement to terror acts.

well, we can then legalize terror too!!!

absurd and outlandish thoughts bereft of any thought.