The rural areas of Missouri have a big meth problem. Houses and apartments blow up. Children are neglected.

Meth is severely addictive.

Meth should never be legalized!!!

PEOPLE do not kid yourselves, their is no controling a "dangerous controlled substance" so tweakers stop kidding yourselves please

They need rehabs more then prison.

To those that look at history, you make perfect sense.

Weed, sure. Meth, no way on earth.

The issue lays in whether or not one believes that the use would increase or decrease.

Legalization would not make someone who is not prone to substance abuse want to go out and use drugs. The point is that those who do will do it anyway.

The consideration of increased use is moot.

The consideration should be upon what other effects on society legalization would have. As has been mentioned, the illegal trading of it would not increase... it may not go away completely, but history shows that it would decrease substantially.

If one can get it easily at a reasonable cost without dealing with the unsavory characters which supply it at this time, why would would they continue to place themselves in even more danger than the drug itself already places them in?

The money saved on prevention added to the profit on sales, and the savings on prison terms for use...

I say it is not only a good idea, it is necessarily so in order to help get several situations under a little more reasonable control.

...... no not even look at some cities like new orleans. we dont have gang violence here just drug violence, that gang play is only a source to fund gang activity. drug violence is gonna always be as long as drug ,,serious drugs exsist

I enjoy paying taxes to have a meth user or dealer prosecuted as harshly as possible. I am actually in firm believe that the sentences they currenltly receive are not harsh enough....especailly for the ones maintaining their sick meth labs.

shoot em all

You can't effectively control a population from itself. Prohibition never worked. In fact it MADE the Capone family very wealthy.

As much as i am against meth, heroine, etc, i know that this is where drug cartels and gangs get their funding. Making anything illegal invents a black market.

These are the facts. I think it's time people start taking responsibility for themselves...

imagine a population on meth.

naw....i like that PART of the population locked down securely.
far away from me neighborhood and my streets.

But it won't work. It doesn't work. All you are doing is funding the production of such drugs.

They also say weed is a gateway drug. The foolish thing about this is the fact that it is true, but only because you purchase it from the same person you buy LSD, and shrooms from.

I say we put weed on the market first. Let it have an impact. Learn from it. If/when crime goes down because of it, you try another drug.

The only fallacy i see in your thinking, is the assumption that by making it illegal, you effectively take it off the streets. You and i both know this isn't true.

If anything manufacturing should carry a death sentence if you want real prevention. I got road flares for any labs I do find. Toss one through the window and POOF! One lab down. Firemen are busy, and the world is down a few excess people with no redeeming qualities. The system is spared spending money holding these cretins in prison, and the world is a much better place.

Oh, wait, that is Vigilantism. Supposedly that is against the law. So what are we supposed to do when the law can do anything?

Hell no, they shouldnt legalize meth!It would be the Zombie Apocalypse

This is in support of a police state. This falls under the presumption that you and i need to be controlled. I say, let the people use, who are gonna use. You would at least cut back on violence. Then these people need to learn to survive on their own. This is a natural way of getting rid of problems. It's called natural selection.

As cold as this may seem. It is the only thing proven to work in nature. We, as humans, are still animals living in nature after all. There is no escaping that fact.

God forbid people must take responsibility for their own actions...

...legalize it..!!

Never legalize it!!!!

Never legalize crack either!!

Never legalize heroin!!

Government doesn't have a right to control what goes in my body.

If it does, then this isn't a free country.

...The land of unfree...

Then take the meth, crack and heroin.

It is my decision, to take it or not. I do not do, and never done drugs (if you had to know).

But, it is my decision, and I will not put up with someone making it for me, even if it is the same decision I would have made anyway.

But we can certainly prohibit drugs. All we need to do is say we are not a free country. Enough with lies.