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many people who want drugs legalized want it not for the rights of others, but either because they want to do their favorite illegal drugs, and/or sell them. they care nothing for the fact people on illegal drugs commit theft and robbery and burglary and assault and in some cases battery and murder, to fuel their habits, or kill people while’high. they totally gloss over that because of their own ‘personal desires to do certain illegal drugs they like.

how bout you?

The elites don’t want drunks running into their limousines. They penalize bartenders who serve too many drinks to patrons. The elites are fanatics. That’s why they treat us like cockroaches in airports, stadiums, and anywhere else they have to co-mingle with us proles.

And since everything offends them except real crime (which they are protected from) our prisons are full of people convicted of trifling offenses.

Have you considered the fact that some, at least, of the effects you attibute to illegal drugs, are the result of illegal not the result of the drug? Define people to be criminals, push the cost of their intoxicant sky high with the black-market premium that gets higher the more ruthlessly the prohibition is enforced, and the users will be more likely to commit crimes. How many people commit robberies to feed their alcohol habit? Surprisingly few. Of course, there are bar fights with alcohol-fueled assaults and occasionally murders, but somehow we noticed that Prohibition was a lousy idea.

On your theory, 19th century America and Britain should have been awash with theft, robbery, burglary and assault to feed all the laudanum users habits, but somehow, they weren't, perhaps because laudanum (and other opiates and cocaine and marijuana) were all perfectly legal until the "Progressives" (remember them, we don't like them here at FR -- enemies of freedom, the source of all manner of baleful ideas for social engineering) decided to improve society's morals by banning them.