Originally posted by GregDawg:
I wasn't talking about legalizing, I was talking about de-criminalizing. There is a difference. Leagalizing is like you can go to your local drug store and pick up some heroin and weed. De-criminalizing is lessening the sentences and harshness of being caught with these drugs. For example, a man gets caught with heroin. Instead of throwing him in prison which won't help anyway, we put him in a treatment program. We try to make them better. Locking these people up isn't going to do anything.


IMO de-criminalization is not a good compromise. Vancouver, BC tried that and it merely resulted in an increase in drug-related crime (more dealers protecting their turf, etc.). Now, legalization has some attractive benefits, and I've long thought we should give that a try, at least as far as marijuana is concerned.

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