Data would be a good thing
Definitely.
How about some data to back up your claims that "people steal to get them" and that drug users rape, kill, and get grave diseases such as Hepatitis C?
Once you actually start looking at what little figures exist on the subject, you will see that most people who use drugs DON'T steal to finance their drugs, and neither do they rape, kill, and end up with some awful disease.
You might like to start with the Dutch experiment. Try if you can find data to back your claims on negative effects of drug legalization.
By the way, "drugs" is so wide a term that such generalisations are meaningless. Smoking marijuana is very different than snorting cocaine and while you might be tempted to attack others while on the latter, marijuana smokers are generally not tempted to lift themselves from the couch for anything less than saving their lives from a burning house. Take an extacy tablet, and you will hug and genuinely love everyone you see, telling strangers your innermost feelings. Killing and raping will be the LAST thing on your mind. Eat some mushrooms or take LSD and you will be lying on your back in a garden, watching the grass move and marvelling at the beauty of nature.
Your ignorant generalizations are based on certain terribly addictive drugs such as heroin, which enslave the user so badly that he steals/kills/robs/mugs/prostitutes (i.e. does whatever is necessary) to get it. For the vast majority of "drugs" that simply is not true. Also blood based diseases such as hepatitis are not even relevant for the vast majority of drugs that are not injected.
In short, I agree with you, data is a very good thing. Go find some before you voice an opinion on this subject again. |
