Should some or all drugs be legalized?

Personally, I am in favor of legalizing pretty much all drugs for adults. I would consider exceptions to that - if there are drugs that cause you to become violent for example, but I doubt many such exceptions would apply.

I think anything between consenting adults should be legal including recreational drugs. They should be regulated though. Don't sell to kids, make sure the drugs are what the label says with respect to dossage and purity, and of course there should be some level of taxes on them (similar to the way cigaretes and alcohol are taxed).

I would be in favor, it being illegal really doesn't stop anyone from getting it so might as well legalize it.

people are going 2 do it weather they want them 2 or not so I think all drugs should be leagal and be sold like cigs so they can be taxed

yes, but of course there should be an age limit possibly 21.
Alchohol has much worse effects on your personality then most drugs do.
Not to mention is more dangerous.
And yet alchohol remains perfectly legal, and the drugs arent.

Alcohol nay be legal, but there are heavy restrictions on its use. You can't drive a car while using it or shortly after using it, it's heavily taxed, you can't consume it in public in most areas; the list goes on.

If you're referring to heroin, crack or coke, give your head a shake - these drugs have an incredibly addictive property, and legalizing it would cause huge problems. If people are allowed to get them legally, there's going to be a whole whack of people that will be so wasted that they cannot function safely. That and the fact that it will be so bloody expensive because of taxes (to recover healthcare costs and of course, to pay for a few government vacations) that not only will they be wasted, they'll be destitute as well. Some people say that these people are addicted because it's not legal, but that makes no sense at all - the human body couldn't give a s*** if it's legal or not. It just knows that it wants more, right now.

It's not like alcohol - the effect of these drugs is immediate, and it's pretty darn easy to kill yourself accidentally with a drug like heroin. You can kill yourself from alcohol poisoning, but it ain't easy to do and it's going to take some practice - an acute case will just make you pass out, and you can't keep drinking when you're out cold.

They're illegal for a reason. Pot should be legalized, simply to make it worthless except for consumption. No money, no crime.

I live in BC Canada. I've seen fields of the green stuff, 8 feet tall, would boggle your mind. But get caught standing in that field while it's still illegal and you'll get yourself shot. So...maybe pot can kill you after all.

Yes. Legalize all vices. Take them out of the personal domain of those beyond the reach of the long arm of the law. Remove any restrictions. Turn them over to laissez faire capitalism.

I think it would hasten affordable healthcare as well.

id rather see drugs legalized than alcohol

only pot should be legalized, you wouldnt want heroin to get to people...
maybe lsd, and MDMA since they already were before 1975 (damn I should have been born in the fiftys :P)

NONE they should all be legal!!!

Prohibition has already been tried and it failed miserably. Yes, all drugs should be legalized.

Yup..

I really dont think any drugs should be legalized
because most people who use them cant act like civil human beings
things like crime, rape, car accidents, suicide and many worse things will rise in numbers
not to mention that drugs destroy your brain
and cause not only health but also mental problems
the world is bad enough will all these teens out drinking, we dont need to add drugs to that

*** "If you're referring to heroin, crack or coke, give your head a shake - these drugs have an incredibly addictive property, and legalizing it would cause huge problems. If people are allowed to get them legally, there's going to be a whole whack of people that will be so wasted that they cannot function safely."

Is this not already a problem? Criminalizing these substances has not stopped these problems. Most people are not stupid enough to try these types of drugs, and those that are that stupid, are stupid enough to do it whether they are legal or not. Does it really make sense to incarcerate people who's only crime is frying their own brains?

There is a common misconception that passing laws causes problems to go away.

I would legalize weed, shrooms, dmt...stuff that actually open your mind (with the irght use)...that's what actually happened...by the 60's people were actually concerned with what was going on and the erroneous decisions the government made...and its not all due to drugs but a lot of these make you see everything a different way, you stop being blind to your surroundings...now the government doesn't want that...they wan you numb and unable to think for your own...so they made it illegal...by the way I am up for "natural" drugs...no coke,.crack, heroine and other nasty stuff for me : ) PLUR