Should I be jailed for breaking the law?

[truman]

I'm sure it will move on, but that's not a counter argument to the point that removing drugs from the hands of criminal gangs is a positive thing to do.

 

But you can't use "getting rid of organised crime" as a reason for legalisation..it won't disappear..apart from that why is legalisation good? As I said earlier I'm not bothered what people do to themselves,I have no feelings either way to legalisation,we're just having a discussion.

[truman]

Organised crime would move on to something else obviously. But something that doesn't cause so much misery and collateral damage.

 

Such as...? I'm at a loss to see any organised crime whih doesn't cause misery and damage..

[quisquose]

Such as...? I'm at a loss to see any organised crime whih doesn't cause misery and damage..

 

Use your imagination ... or watch a gangster movie set in ye olden days.

 

(I didn't say "much", I said "so much")

 

[truman]

Use your imagination ... or watch a gangster movie set in ye olden days.

 

 

What? with all those machine gun bullets flying around? No collateral damage there eh?

[Cyclone]

But you can't use "getting rid of organised crime" as a reason for legalisation..it won't disappear..apart from that why is legalisation good? As I said earlier I'm not bothered what people do to themselves,I have no feelings either way to legalisation,we're just having a discussion.

 

You can use removing an easy source of funding for and type of organised crime though. Reducing organised crime might be a better way to phrase it.

[Chris_Sleeps]

It's a reasonable comment but do you think that organised crime will just disappear?

Legalisation of cannabis doesn't have to make organised crime disappear. You just take the trade out of their hands by not allowing them to profit from it anymore. What they choose to do after that would be supposition and irrelevant to what we're talking about.

 

What? with all those machine gun bullets flying around?

Those bullets were flying around because gangs were attempting to monopolise flow of prohibited alcohol.

[truman]

You can use removing an easy source of funding for and type of organised crime though. Reducing organised crime might be a better way to phrase it.

 

Are you advocating making all drugs legal? Crack? everything?

[truman]

Legalisation of cannabis doesn't have to make organised crime disappear. You just take the trade out of their hands by not allowing them to profit from it anymore. What they choose to do after that would be supposition and irrelevant to what we're talking about.

 

 

Those bullets were flying around because gangs were attempting to monopolise flow of prohibited alcohol.

 

It's relevant 'cos "getting rid of organised crime" was given as a reason for legalisation..if it doesn't do that then it's not a good reason for it to happen...

[Murphy Jnr]

With legalisation there would be no drugs cartels or criminal gangs.

 

jn

 

This is not strictly true as they have begun to realise in The Netherlands. Legalising the drug there has promoted a whole new industry in prostitution and now trafficking.

[Cyclone]

Are you advocating making all drugs legal? Crack? everything?

 

Difficult question, but I wasn't advocating anything, so that's the easy answer