Twelve Reasons to Legalize Drugs

Echo · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject:

Can I add a 13th reason?

Legalizing all drugs would make them less appealing to young people.
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Rev. Chazman · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

I dont agree that ALL drugs should be legal. But I do think humane ways of dealing with those who use the more harmful drugs need to be used. Counciling and other help instead of prison and a record which make getting a better life through a good job and higher education impossible.

Just my opinion.

Peace
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sara · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 448

If it was up to me I would take all the white powders and put them in the trush bin,
then all the natural drug organically grown and sold in a herbal shop.

Wink

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**Fyrefly1** · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject:

Good idea, Sara!
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Rev. Chazman · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject:

sara · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 448

April 17, Xinhua
Myanmar exposes 239 drug cases in March

Myanmar exposed 239 narcotic-drug- related cases in March, bringing the total number of such cases revealed in the first quarter of this year to 724, according to a latest release of the anti-drug authorities.

During the month, the army, police and the customs seized 13 kilograms of heroin, 31.7 kilograms of opium and 43.5 kilograms of marijuana as well as more than 38,000 stimulant tablets, punishing 368 drug offenders in the connection.

Some 500,000 stimulant tablets were seized in January and 172, 000 in February. Of the January stimulants seizure, 400,000 were caught in Tachilek and Kengtung alone, eastern Shan state of the country, according to earlier official reports. Along with that seizure were also 79 rounds of ammunition.

The anti-drug authorities also disclosed that Myanmar exposed a total of
3,012 narcotic-drug cases in 2004, punishing 4,153 people in the connection. During the year, the authorities seized 973.5 kilograms of heroin and 606.8 kilograms of opium, an increase by 405.4 kilograms and a decrease by 874.8 kilos respectively compared with the previous year. The stimulant tablets confiscated amounted to 8.3 million, up 4.3 million correspondingly.

Meanwhile, during the poppy cultivation season in 2004-05, a total of 3,270 hectares of such plantations were destroyed in Shan, Kachin, Kayah and Sagaing states and divisions, the statistics shows, revealing that one opium refinery each in Shan state and Kachin state was overrun by the authorities.

According to a survey report for 2004 of opium yield jointly conducted by Myanmar and the United States' Criminal Narcotics Center (CNC), there was
34 percent drop in poppy cultivation, registering over 30,000 hectares in 2004, and 39 percent decrease in opium production during the year compared with 2003.

Another ground survey on poppy cultivation, jointly conducted by Myanmar and the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), also shows that Myanmar's opium poppy cultivation area in Myanmar stood at 44,240 hectares in 2004, declining sharply by 29 percent from 2003 and 73 percent from 1996, while opium production was 370 tons in 2004, dropping by 54 percent compared with 2003.

Meanwhile, Myanmar and the United Nations have begun their 5th jpint

opium survey to assess opium production in Myanmar this year.

Myanmar has been implementing a 15-year drug elimination plan ( 1999-2000 to 2013-2014) to totally wipe out drugs and the second five-year plan beginning in 2004-05 is underway.

With the successful establishment of drug-free zone in Shan state's Mongla region in 1997 and

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Rev.Holden Greene · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:

11. It would stabilize foreign countries and make them safer to live in and travel to.

12. Legalization would repair U.S. relations with other countries and curtail anti-American sentiment around the world.

i think these two are ones i forget sometimes

nice link im gunna print some of these up & distribute them thanx
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**Ferre** · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject:

How can a system claim that their approach works if they can't even keep drugs out of their prisons?

sara · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 448

Hey, personally I'm NOT against drug use,
I would prefer not to use it myself, but if people feel good about it
maybe they are on their path in evolution which I don't find really facinating ...
I rather drink ayauasca then Meth+ex but that's my fix.

when I worked at the chocolate factory I found the chocolate Yak...
and I know that if i drink more the two coffee's i get sick ... .
I think that our body is more clever then our mind.

Laughing

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