Comments by "filonin2" (@filonin2) on "Drugs Continue to Flow in Southeast Asia, Despite Tse Chi Lop Arrest" video.

So the war on drugs is futile and a waste of money, resources, and time. Legalize, tax, and regulate all drugs. It's just like alcohol in that if you make a substance illegal people will still create a market for it. If you legalize a substance you can control it. When a substance is illegal, the cartels control it.
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@ukiuzi926 Those people are going to get the drug whether you like it or not. You choose to make it dangerous when you make it illegal. I guarantee 10x more people die per year from alcohol per year too so you're just being flat out silly. Try to think and stop being brainwashed.
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@ukiuzi926 You're missing the point that things like that are already accessible and that by making them illegal you create the crime and give money to criminals who provide the drugs, just as alcohol did when it was illegal. The government is literally the only entity that can be trusted with quality control with any product at all so not wanting government product control on potentially deadly drugs that people are going to have either way sounds insane. Also, who but the government would regulate quality control? DO you think private companies et up those standards or somehow that illegal producers have better standards than the government? People are going to have their drugs, whatever their choice of drug may be. You can choose whether they get them safely through legal channels or dangerously and funding terrorism. You cannot choose for the drugs to not be sold. The war on drugs hasn't reduced drug use in any way and has killed millions over the decades. It is a useless, murderous, and illogical waste of time, money, and resources for mankind.
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We should legalize, tax, and regulate all drugs to eliminate the illegal drug trade entirely.
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@ukiuzi926 So you would prefer to make it illegal and hence still have it be available but you want it to be dangerous and require crime? Why? You cannot stop people from taking drugs and what right would you have to anyways? Who are you to decide what people put in their bodies? If the government can't be trusted to safely regulate and distribute drugs then how could you want them to ban their use? You're full of hypocrisy just like the drug war.
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@ukiuzi926 Furthermore, we're talking about a prescription pain medication, something millions of people are prescribed every day, not bath salts. If it didn't have medical use and it was this crazy deadly drug that wouldn't be the case. You're drunk on drug war propaganda. Stop being a puppet. You do know that all drugs have been decriminalized in multiple countries and the result is a sharp drop in crime and overdoses, right? Of course not, you're an addict for propaganda.
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@ukiuzi926 Portugal. How could overdoses drop if people weren;t using the drug to begin with? How could they be overdosing then? You're not even trying to think. You're just a puppet for mindless propaganda.
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@ukiuzi926 How is asking if you want to buy a legal product a problem? Only a fool would think that making something illegal would make it not accessible. I've already told you the only result making drugs illegal is to shift them to the black market. You either don't care or like that people must now endanger their lives to take the drugs they are going to take either way and that the profits go to criminals and overdoses will happen because there is no regulation. You're entirely backwards in your thinking if you think you are helping to reduce crime or increase public well being by making drugs illegal since it demonstrably increases crime and reduces well-being by introducing adulterants instead of what people are actually trying to get.
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@ukiuzi926 The state of Oregon also decriminalized all drugs and Switzerland decriminalized opiates decades ago. If the best you can come up with is people advertising their legal wares car salesman need to be in jail as a car can kill you the first time you drive it if you use it wrong or it's built wrong too. Try to think, kiddo.
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@ukiuzi926 So that the black market wouldn't control it so there wouldn't be any crime, like with alcohol, and people who did want it could get and use safely, the same as government run heroin clinics do or the corner liquor store does. This isn't hard to understand.
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