No sympathy for Gunmen

[Graham53]

Make drugs legal and all that will happen is that the Tobacco and Alcohol companies will switch production to drugs as they have nothing to lose, governments will  lose tax money so they will just heavily tax drugs instead and then all the do gooders will be telling you that you should just have so many drug hits a week and that governments should tax them even more. Drug dealers will then just produce more crappy shit and undercut the taxed legal drugs, just as they do now with alcohol and drugs. 
Interesting that people want to legalise drugs but they seem to forget that governments all over the world are trying to restrict alcohol and cigarette use which are legal to use and buy.

Agree , and I also think comparing Britain to other countries like holland is mis guided , we have a culture here of binge and under age drinking that is not present in other countries , if you legalise drugs you run the risk of binge drugging or overdosing and many other problems that I don't think anyone proposing or supporting it has thought through. For example in the last 10 years since the laws on cannabis were "relaxed" you see more and more teenagers using it openly on the streets and it's almost become socially acceptable. skunk has grown more prevalent, more people are growing it in homes and and there has also been a rise of mental health problems caused by smoking cannabis. imagine the problems we have in Britain today with alcohol use ( check out A&E on Saturday nights ) then imagine the same attitudes of those people with cocaine , heroin , ecstasy , speed , lsd