Sir, with all due respect, there’s not going to be any argument that you can make to me that’s going to make me believe that legalizing street drugs in the US is a wise choice.
NOW, if you want to believe that putting a little street drug market on the corner in every community, and taxing it, and checking ID’s is going to solve the drug hog problem that we have in the US you go right ahead.
The problem is DRUG ADDICTION, the problem is not outlawing drugs. Can you grab your drawers and understand that concept?
NOW, we’ve a serious problem with alcohol addiction on this planet for years. And in this country. We took steps to prohibit the sale of it and it failed, BECAUSE so many were already addicted to it. So, alcohol became legal again and we STILL have people dying from drunks grabbing guns and shooting people and drunks on the highways causing 37% of deaths in this country.
NOW, did making alcohol legal again solve any problem whatsoever with alcohol addiction? NO, it didn’t!
Neither will making street drugs legal solve one damned thing about the current horrific street drug addictions in this country...or anywhere else. Even the Netherlands has finally figured this out and making drugs illegal.
The "war on drugs" is screwed up because it's another example of the federal government assuming control of something it was never granted or intended to have control of.