BTStraveller

Legalization now! Nobody is forced to use them so don't start with the ruining lives etc

Death penalty is outrageous by itself, but for drugs it is just crazy. Legalize and tax it, simple.

And thereby create another situation as has been with cigarettes. Smokers pay about 10% of the total health expenses associated with their addiction, and frankly, I find it offensive that the taxpayer picks up the rest.

Legalize anything if you wish, but the cost must reflect what is spent on medical expenses for those using the 'product'. Cigarettes should be $100+ a pack of 20 if the system is to recoup even close to the costs of treating smoking related illnesses. Alternatively, state resources should not be provided to a person who has inflicted illness or injury on himself through drug use, or any number of other health issues over which he has had control, e.g., obesity, except where there are contributing medical causes.

No, don't ever legalize hard drugs. Decriminalize it, but only for users. Script it to addicts and watch them as they ingest it, so they can't on-sell it, and treat it as the health problem that it really is. Big difference. Ask any junkie if they are happy to be a junkie. They aren't! The are sick!

Traffickers should be dealt with appropriately, 5 -10 years should sort them - and that's still more than what most pedophiles get :-( But then if addicts had access to their drugs in a clinically managed way most traffickers would be out of work anyway.

And as for cigarettes, governments everywhere are addicted to the huge taxes they collect from tobacco companies - and it's not like they put the money back into health systems to pay the costs for smokers dying from tobacco related illnesses.

Legalise murder?....oh that's right, the Vietnamese government already has!

I once met a guy who had lived on death row in the US for TEN years...before the courts changed their mind and decided he was not guilty of the crime (murder, in his case) he was accused of after all. I met him when he was travelling and speaking out against this barbaric form of punishment that has been proven to not even serve as a deterrent to this obscene crime.

For the last ten years or more there have been coalition troops walking past the poppy fields in Afghanistan - but not destroying them as you would think would be prudent is tackling what is essentially a health issue of drug addiction throughout the world, especially given that 97% of the worlds heroin is produced from the poppies in Afghanistan. The issue appears to suit some governments on the one hand, but not other governments on the other.

Aside from that, it must be a hell of a person who decides on someone elses life.

It's not a spy, just Google mapping the area so they can make money out of them locals. But watch out for the cars that are equipped with micro wave transponders that can read your brainwaves & steal your intelectual property. They really suck?

Dang.....that's a lot of taxi drivers to arrest in just one night!

A great loss. With Gaddafi gone as well, who is left to guide the world's fashion industry?

Can someone tell me.........who was first with this fashion sense.......Col Gaddafi, Kim Jong-il or Michael Jackson?