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Legalizing drugs would end up turning more Americans into losers and dead people at the publics expense.

You are not of this world regarding your critical thinking at all IMO.

Drugs are total crap basically, and your thoughts are that the way a problem goes away is to make it legal. All that would do is make the problem spread more and give people the impression it was safe and more innocents would be screwed up for life.

I am not into pushing dope. You sound to me like the drifter who offers candy to children that is laces with razor blades or Satan himself who pushes evil while attempting to pose as the light of truth.

There are drug lords, terrorists and other criminals profiting from drug crimes and that is NOT the case as you mentioned for rape or in some cases murder. Therefore in many ways, a drug related criminal is even worse.

Legalizing drugs would end up turning more Americans into losers and dead people at the publics expense.

Tell me something. If what you say is true, then why don't we see an epidemic of people buying up spray paint and sniffing it? It's cheap as can be, gets you really high, it's available in abundance within a mile of almost everyone, and even the youngest of kids can buy it.

Yet we don't see any such epidemic. How do you explain this?

since rape and murder have real victims that resist the crime and help punish it, my logic does not apply to those real crimes.

(Just wanted to note here that you didn't respond to my argument.)

Legalizing drugs would end up turning more Americans into losers and dead people at the publics expense.

Dead people don't cost much; and while these increased expenses are speculative, and along with drug criminalization are part of the Nanny State that I oppose, the costs of drug criminalization are real.

Drugs are total crap basically, and your thoughts are that the way a problem goes away is to make it legal.

Legalization is not the answer to the problem of drug use, but it's now clear that criminalization is also not the answer. Legalization is the answer to the problems created by criminalization.

All that would do is make the problem spread more and give people the impression it was safe

Does keeping alcohol and tobacco legal give people the impression they are safe? If so, should we for that reason make alcohol and tobacco illegal?

You sound to me like the drifter who offers candy to children that is laces with razor blades or Satan himself who pushes evil while attempting to pose as the light of truth.

You're funny. I'd use that as my tagline if I didn't already have one I liked.

There are drug lords, terrorists and other criminals profiting from drug crimes

They couldn't profit from drugs if drugs were legal.

I think the author of this article has some agreement with you.

"Schlosser says the '60s marked the birth of our national addiction to consumption, whether of pornography, drugs or Happy Meals. "It's a complex legacy. A lot of what is best in our culture did spring from that time, from the environmental movement to women's rights and civil rights," he says. "But the darker side would be the drug culture and the spread of this culture. Even though I really believe that the marijuana laws are absurd, the culture surrounding drug taking is a very unhealthy one. I think a lot of the social causes of the '60s petered out into drugs and the drug culture."