You should see the link I posted about the liberalization of marijuana and the increase of crime.
The common sense truth is when you make more drug addicts you increase crime.
Your freedoms then get flushed.
If you can’t deal with simple truth because drugs are that important, then you are a failure to your country.
Is it not a common sense truth that prohibiting what people won’t stop using creates crime, too? Or does that crime not matter? Not to mention the accomoanying growth of and loss of respect for gubmint. Who cares about innercity thugs having shootouts in residential neighborhoods? I’d much rather bust someone for getting high on something that isn’t alchohol./s
I’d much rather deal with real crimes caused by drug abuse than the fake “crime” of drug abuse and crime caused by the black market created by prohibition. Especially because even with prohibition anyone who wants to can abus, drugs. There is a downside, as I’ve mentioned, considering we’ve turned away from personal responsibility and cushion people from the consequences of their actions. But advocating prohibition as a fix is wrong. Foremost because it’s unjust; also because it doesn’t work.
Your argument reminds me of the Bloombergian argument for sugary drink and salt prohibition. Now that we have partially socialized healthcare, it becomes the community’s responsibility to regulate people’s health. Hence sugar and salt intake fall under the “police powers” of gubmint. The real solution, as you and I know, is for fatties to pay for themselves. Otherwise socialism will keep causing problems that will inevitably require gubmint oversight of every damn aspect of our lives.
I must conclude by stressing how much worse a problem is alchohol, and how absolutely silly is your ignoring it.
Criminologist refutes cannabis-related crime increase claims - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005416/posts