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Aura Hyperia was originally created from the merging of the regions Bloemfontein and A Second Try, and then arose from The United States of Europe. Its former residents have rebranded themselves as the Hyperion Order, and currently reside within New Hyperion.

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New Hyperion (NH) is a region of NationStates. It is an empire built on the principles of Hyperionism, our guiding philosophy.

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Crystal Meth Legal in Ireland
Topic Started: Mar 10 2015, 12:50 PM (228 Views)
Zander Cerebella
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http://www.joe.ie/life-style/pic-the-best-tweets-after-the-news-that-ecstasy-ketamine-and-crystal-meth-are-temporarily-legal/487814

''In the Court of Appeal this morning, a ruling on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 effectively means that certain drugs that were previously declared to be illegal are currently legal.

A number of banned drugs including ecstasy, ketamine and crystal meth are now legal.''

Well time to take advantage of this great occasion before parliament re-illegalises it tonight.
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Chancellor Laurentus
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Ireland is in for a rough night. :D
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Wow..... Just........ Wow......
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Alexander
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Read about this earlier. Shockingly, society isn't going to fall apart because drugs are legal. Even if it was permanent.

I wonder how many centuries will go by before full legalisation of drugs occurs, but people by and large will need a huge wake up to self-ownership.
Any government thinking it has a right to tell you what you can do to your own body is frankly laughable, and most who support drug prohibition either don't understand drugs and are buying into propaganda, or have some ambiguous "moral" religious argument.
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Alexander
Mar 11 2015, 04:01 PM
Read about this earlier. Shockingly, society isn't going to fall apart because drugs are legal. Even if it was permanent.

I wonder how many centuries will go by before full legalisation of drugs occurs, but people by and large will need a huge wake up to self-ownership.
Any government thinking it has a right to tell you what you can do to your own body is frankly laughable, and most who support drug prohibition either don't understand drugs and are buying into propaganda, or have some ambiguous "moral" religious argument.
Although I'm far less judgmental about the people who use drugs, I do still thinks it's a problem to be solved, and although I understand the argument that it is often a victimless crime, I'm not convinced by the argument. I do think that it should be regulated and treated as a disease, which any addiction is, but the overwhelming proof of its negative effects on society is seen pretty clearly in South Africa, as too many addicts show just about the worst aspects of being an addict, and it doesn't amount to a victimless crime, as family members and friends suffer from their addicted children/siblings/parents turning to criminal activity to support their addiction. Sorry, I know it's a touchy subject, but I think we respect each other enough to keep the discussion civilised, so no worries.

That being said, I have seen no convincing evidence to justify marijuana being an illegal substance. Sure, it can be linked as a trigger to Schizophrenia, but when compared to the maladies resulting from alcohol, tobacco, and even caffeine, marijuana seems pretty tame.
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Mar 11 2015, 04:32 PM
Although I'm far less judgmental about the people who use drugs, I do still thinks it's a problem to be solved, and although I understand the argument that it is often a victimless crime, I'm not convinced by the argument. I do think that it should be regulated and treated as a disease, which any addiction is, but the overwhelming proof of its negative effects on society is seen pretty clearly in South Africa, as too many addicts show just about the worst aspects of being an addict, and it doesn't amount to a victimless crime, as family members and friends suffer from their addicted children/siblings/parents turning to criminal activity to support their addiction. Sorry, I know it's a touchy subject, but I think we respect each other enough to keep the discussion civilised, so no worries.

That being said, I have seen no convincing evidence to justify marijuana being an illegal substance. Sure, it can be linked as a trigger to Schizophrenia, but when compared to the maladies resulting from alcohol, tobacco, and even caffeine, marijuana seems pretty tame.
The only link between drug use and violent crime, is its illegality actually making it worse.
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Alexander
Mar 11 2015, 05:35 PM
Laurentus
Mar 11 2015, 04:32 PM
Although I'm far less judgmental about the people who use drugs, I do still thinks it's a problem to be solved, and although I understand the argument that it is often a victimless crime, I'm not convinced by the argument. I do think that it should be regulated and treated as a disease, which any addiction is, but the overwhelming proof of its negative effects on society is seen pretty clearly in South Africa, as too many addicts show just about the worst aspects of being an addict, and it doesn't amount to a victimless crime, as family members and friends suffer from their addicted children/siblings/parents turning to criminal activity to support their addiction. Sorry, I know it's a touchy subject, but I think we respect each other enough to keep the discussion civilised, so no worries.

That being said, I have seen no convincing evidence to justify marijuana being an illegal substance. Sure, it can be linked as a trigger to Schizophrenia, but when compared to the maladies resulting from alcohol, tobacco, and even caffeine, marijuana seems pretty tame.
The only link between drug use and violent crime, is its illegality actually making it worse.
That's not what has been observed here. In the first place, our police service is too corrupt/useless to inspire any fear, and our laws now protect the criminals. The police are so ineffective that of the arrests made, only 18% even gets to court because of the monumental fuck up that is our police procedure, and criminals don't fear the police anyway, because almost the whole bunch are corrupt idiots who are only policemen to get rich from bribes in the first place, or pathetic idiots who are too scared to venture into crime-infested areas and deal with the problem.

The criminals (and here I'm talking about serious criminals) have been found to be completely rational in most cases, and just prefer to live a life of crime because they have such a small chance of getting caught, and what they spend their money on is drugs, sex and any other luxuries, with drugs and sex being the most common.

But I don't have much hope or patience for these career criminals, gangsters and cartels, as 98% of crimes that are committed that come before court, are committed by these cretins, and they have no remorse, so from a purely practical standpoint, I say just execute them and get it over with. Our prisons are costing us enough in taxes already, and there is almost no hope of rehabilitation. We also don't have enough prisons to cope with criminals anyway, and sneaking drugs and other illegal material into prison is so damned easy because of the so-called culture of crime present in South Africa anyway.

No, who I'm more concerned with are the drug addicts who become thieves, murderers, robbers, gangsters, prostitutes and cartel members in the first place because of their crippling addiction that can't be fed by anything else to begin with, because our country is poor to begin with (at least officially, some of these kingpins could be billionaires according to research), and our government is so corrupt and unfriendly to free-market business, and so bad at providing education and job-opportunities, that it's not an option to legalise and regulate drugs anyway, as the government would use that to its own enrichment too.

As a result, you get child prostitutes in Sunnyside, a few kilometres from where I live, as well as child gangsters who would kill and mug their own parents to get money and score drugs.

Now I know South Africa (and indeed the entire African continent) is a completely different case from the rest of the world because we have such a bad cocktail of crime-contributing factors that you can't point to any one as the causation link, but Botswana has a much more conservative and crime punishing attitude, and this includes heavy penalties for people even in the possession of drugs, and they are far better off than other mid-to-southern African countries as a consequence. Surprisingly, they draw a shit-load of criticism from the international community, but just as we must respect the reasons for other countries' stances, they must understand that Africa is so far-gone that they couldn't hope to begin to understand what someone must do to maintain order.

So in a first world country, legalisation and regulation is a valid solution, but Africa is a completely different matter, and serves as the worst case scenario of such apologetic attitudes towards crime, drugs and corruption. And even socialism to a large extent.

EDIT: To completely explain what I'm talking about, I'd need a few years to teach you criminology up to major-level from a South African perspective.
Edited by Laurentus, Mar 11 2015, 06:49 PM.
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See, I can't imagine that happening here. I'm sorry Laurentus, but you make South Africa sound like a horrid place. How does one put up with conditions like that for years and years? I'd imagine that people would revolt and have the government at least do SOMETHING about it. Though I have to admit, America's prosecution system is far from perfect (murderers only getting 10 years while people with half an oz of weed are given life without the possibility of parole) but at least most people who deserve it are convicted.

@Zander -- Are you serious? I'm laughing at the thought of Zander going wild right now.

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Mar 11 2015, 06:37 PM
EDIT: To completely explain what I'm talking about, I'd need a few years to teach you criminology up to major-level from a South African perspective.
Or you know, the short version being that law enforcement is already fucked and is one of several problems endemic to South Africa.

When South Africa has a functional government and police force in the future, then your argument would no longer be necessary, though I'll admit I'm not convinced that some of the issues you're listing aren't a result of drug illegality in the first place. A few things do however need to go hand in hand with drug legalisation, and that's namely education and support. When I said "I wonder how many centuries will go by before full legalisation of drugs occurs", I did really mean "in the majority of Western countries".
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The people are fed up with the ANC, but their irrational fear of white people makes them too scared to vote for the DA (a mixed race party, but with Helen Zille as the leader, a white woman from Cape Town), that the black majority doesn't want to vote for any party other than the ANC. I don't exaggerate when I say that it's a matter of choosing between the devil they know, and the devil they don't know for the majority. It also doesn't help that the ANC keeps reinforcing this fear with its head politicians singing songs like "kill the boer, kill the dog," at public places, even when this behaviour has been deemed by the constitutional court to be hate-speech. Our own president sings this song. So you can see why it's racist, the word boer is Afrikaans for "white, Afrikaans male." Unfortunately, the situation isn't made easier by the vocal minority of white Afrikaner males who are themselves racist, and this mutual racism just leads to more racism.

Anyway, the people then show their unhappiness in idiotic ways, like full scale riots, burning down schools, burning foreigners alive, shooting at police, assassinating politicians, and one extremely scary and racist black group that is even committing genocide against white farmers to "get back the land that we stole." Of course they forget that it was our ancestors who stole this land. We pay for it. But the ANC uses us (and apartheid) as the scape-goat for every single one of their failures, as with the electricity problem, and somehow even crime, poverty and corruption. Much like Nazi Germany did with the Jews, then.

Read my "I'm going to be busy this year" thread for more on the electricity situation. It's in Departures and Vacations.

I'll post links to everything else I'm talking about.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia_in_South_Africa

www.sabc.co.za/news/a/cd68bc80475a83babca1bdda2831d264/NoundefinedarrestundefinedforundefinedschoolundefinedtouchingundefinedinundefinedMalamulele-20151802

m.thenation.com/article/179828-why-south-africans-keep-voting-anc

www.genocidewatch.org/southafrica.html

I should note, to be fair, that white people are still the richest citizens, so are an obvious target for practical reasons, but the general atmosphere in South Africa is very much hostile to whites, and the violent nature of some of these murders, and the political parties growing ever more open with their hostility, leaves me with no doubt that this is a systemic attempt at genocide, even though many black people bear no ill will against us.

khayadlanga.com/2013/09/19/why-young-black-voters-are-turning-to-the-da/

That's it for one night. I can't make you completely understand SA in its current state any more than you can make me understand the USA's with a few lines of text.

The answer to your earlier question is: where else am I supposed to go without any money and qualifications and work experience? The moment I'm able to, I'd move to Germany, the UK, Australia or Canada.

EDIT: @Frosty, No, that would be an over-simplification, and it is one that I would need my entire 21+ years on earth and accumulated learning for to try and explain. But fair enough, while I'm not convinced by drug abuse as a victimless crime, I also don't come from the same part of the world as you do.
Edited by Laurentus, Mar 11 2015, 09:06 PM.
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