Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "This is Your Brain on the Drug War" video.

  1. In some places the taxes actually make the legal weed just as expensive as the illegal weed, so the gangs are still active and selling. The whole point of legalizing drugs is preventing people from having to resort to the gangs and funding the violent crime that results.
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  2. Oh no I'm not opposed to black markets or groups that choose to take part in it. But gangs become governments, they resort to violence and intimidation to control territory and hold a monopoly.
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  3. "People are trying to evade their problems with drugs so we're going to give them an even greater problem by sending them to jail and ruin their lives, that'll teach them!"
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  4. +Kevin Bryer so we should institute pre-crime and bring back Prohibition. Kappa.
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  5. No tax is fair to begin with, but you're really not making an argument by saying prohibition is worse when nobody is advocating for it here, and something being worse doesn't justify the alternative.
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  6. +Kevin Bryer and so you want to ban firecrackers?
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  7. "what is the appropriate use for controlled substances?" That is circular reasoning. You're already justifying them needing an appropriate use by claiming they're controlled. "But outside of those circumstances, they are more likely to cause dramatic short and long term harm" legal prescription drugs are literally responsible for more addiction and overdoses than illegal drugs. So within those circumstances they're actually more likely to cause harm. You ever saw "do not operate heavy machinery" in a drug's label? You are now aware that an alarming number of Americans pop those pills like candy on a daily basis and you share the road with them. Cars are "heavy machinery". And now you know. [skip] "you are not just playing Russian roulette with yourself, but with everyone else as well" look I'm going to explain it to you one more time. You want 1) drugs to be controlled because 2) someone might take them and 3) that someone might endanger someone else. Number 3) is a crime. Doing something about the person tossing firecrackers into people's hands is the same as arresting a drunk driver or a high drivers. However, you also want to criminalize lighting firecrackers without harming nobody, and getting drunk at a bar/home without harming nobody - not just that, but you want the sale of firecrackers and liquor banned as well. You want to make several non-victimizing behaviours into a crime because POSSIBLY, those actions could MAYBE result in a crime. Hi, we're libertarians. Maybe you've confused us for liberals or tradnats or something, but this is probably not the place for you because we don't want our beliefs getting banned because people like you pop a vessel in their brain when confronted with our way of thinking.
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