Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "The Hard Lives of Britain's Synthetic Marijuana Addicts" video.

  1. ***** It's not crazy, at all. That is THE only solution. I can guarantee that if it was readily accessible, most people would never meet people who can sell them other illegal shit (read: worse shit) and there'd be no reason to inhale some chemical compound that basically mocks true-blue marijuana. The illegality is singularly doing more damage than anything.
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  2. daz samuels Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, people are always going to use drugs. Whether it's through, or around, the law, it makes no difference. Addicts will get their drugs no matter what. It's just a matter of whether the law forces them to buy it from some shady fuck or from a pharmacist. And truth be told, a lot of your experiences with drugs may also have been directly related to the cut in the substances. Heroin, for instance, in it's pure form, is ironically not even THAT bad for you. It's the cut in the drugs that makes it worse. Yes, there is a risk of overdose when dealing with pure heroin, but it's not dirty like Black Tar or even what's nowadays considered "good" Heroin. In fact, pure Heroin is completely clear, not the dark black shit that addicts are unfortunately pumping into their veins. 
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  3. Droobis I would bet serious money that when the United States legalizes marijuana, the rates of drug use, addiction itself, and other affiliated diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C from hardcore drug use, all will drop dramatically. If you look at a country like Paraguay, they had such a bad drug problem there that they were desperate, in that spirit of desperation they were willing to try anything. In legalizing drugs altogether, the effects outlined above was the case. Rates of drug use actually DROPPED. It's truly remarkable, and go figure why that is the case, but I honestly think one of the analogous problems when dealing with illegal drug addiction is that addicts are oftentimes just as addicted to the hunt as they are to their drugs.  daz samuels Huh? 
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  4. daz samuels That's an interesting point. Yes, I can see that happening, between the point of them announcing that legalization is on its way. Some dealers would probably make as much as they could by selling product with more and more cut, and that could probably lead to a spike in deaths. The other problem is the government is going to tax the shit out of it, so there may still be a huge black market because they're able to get the unregulated garbage for a better price. That being said, I have no reason to believe that legalization is going to be any more or less harmful than the way things currently are. I mean, slap a warning label on the side of the product like they do with cigarettes and alcohol. Can't say they didn't warn you. But at the very least you know it's a cleaner, safer, product. I don't think your theory is a good enough reason to keep things the way they are, especially since you are suggesting that it's better because we have "plausible deniability" so long as it's still legal. That's nonsense. The net benefits are going to be much higher than the downsides, because no matter which way you look at it, people are dying left and right AND going to jail. Having their lives ruined in one way or another, and it all costs the taxpayer indirectly in other ways. At the very least decriminalize everything so they can focus on catching the real criminals. If they legalized the real thing then there would be no reason to buy the synthetic crap, unless you just happen to be an idiot. You'd much rather live in a society where you have to go through shady people and deal with shady situations for people to procure their drugs. I am sorry but I couldn't disagree with you more. By the way, please stop responding in several parts. There's an edit button for a reason. 
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  5. daz samuels Regardless of what your perspective on drugs and drug usage is, to think that just because you have had personal experiences that were bad (with illegal substances) and just because you now have this moral, SJW attitude about it, doesn't mean you can just snap your fingers and people will be like, "Oh, OK we will all stop immediately". If that was the case, the drug war would have been won years ago. The fact of the matter is, people are always going to use drugs. They always have, they always will. To combat it by keeping it illegal has never worked, if anything it's only given rise to stronger and better criminals and criminal organizations. With alcohol, it was basically the beginning of the modern day Mafia. With other drugs, we are now dealing with cartels that, because of illegality, are now pulling in billions and billions of dollars by peddling substances that have an artifically high value because of their illicit nature, and because of that, South of the border we now have cartels that are actually stronger and better equipped than the Mexican military. Those who do choose to remain in law enforcement, most of them end up going corrupt and working with those cartels. The ones who do not go corrupt, end up quitting the military and/or the police force and joining up with the cartels themselves because the money is far better in an already poor country. So now, on top of all the problems with the drugs themselves, we are seeing some of the most vicious organizations the world has ever known. Beheading and torturing children, in some cases, all because the profits from illegal enterprises are so good. There's one organization in particular that's really scary, Los Zetas. They're a drug cartel made up in large part of people who are ex special forces/military and are using that training (as well as military equipment including helicopters and RPG's) to basically do the opposite of what they were doing before when they were in the military. To just wish the problem away is completely unrealistic. The real solution is to admit that human beings like drugs, and will always like drugs, and so long as that's the case if there's a demand for it -- there are people in the world that will take advantage of that to criminal effect and get filthy rich. I can't think of any good that's come from this drug war. 
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