I've seen your posts and I think we have some differences in our viewpoint but we're both Muslims and you've struck me as being one of the religious posters here.
I think you are a Muslim and a religious Muslim as well (not a half-baked type) but I think there is a mistake here. I mean zero disrespect towards you but I think the idea that they should legalize other drugs because they have legalized alcohol is a mistaken idea.
It may be that there is an inconsistency and I think you have a point that there is an inconsistency. Alcohol is a drug- a dangerous drug- just like meth.
But look at for example when many of us were younger.... zina was allowed but the West wouldn't allow the same sex to marry. Previously, zina was legal but homosexuality was illegal and people could get arrested for it. If we're living back then- should we say they should legalize homosexuality? They're already allowing zina.
We might not be able to get them to fully embrace the truth but I think we have to at least try to push them in the right direction.
From religious perspective, I agree with you. We should always advocate the right deeds and always encourage people to do good.
However, I have a different perspective when I look at the fake war on drugs that America wages. The majority of victims are minority youth. In particular, the African American and Hispanic American youth. Entire generations are condemned to prison because this war on drugs is waged on them.
One area that you can easily observe is the sentencing for the drug-related crimes in both white and minority neighborhoods. In white neighborhoods, many of them are sent to rehabilitation centers or ordered to go through drug treatments in order to achieve reduced sentencing.
In minority neighborhoods, they mostly use the maximum sentencing where rehabilitation and drug treatments are hardly considered.
This is the epicenter of the Jim Crow system.
So when I advocated for legalizing metha, I was coming from that angle. If drugs are legalized, the price will go down. And because the price is down, the gangs who fight over drugs will be less and less as time goes by. And most importantly, in Canada, drug sentencing will less and less.
Just think of it: You never see gangs fighting over cigarette smuggling and having a turf war on selling cigarettes on some corners. That is because cigarettes are legal. So when metha is legalized, the gangs epidemic that makes a living on drugs and the youth going to prisons because of it will be far less, at least in Canada.
