I still say legalize all drugs and tax them. Make something legal and the allure of using it will go down. The cost base analysis of fighting the war on drugs shows it to be a huge waste of money. And when you legalize it, you then take the criminal nature out of it and you take out all the cartels. We just don't have the guts or common sense to do it.
And no, I don't use drugs, never have. I am just a severe chocoholic.
Your idea makes complete sense...that's why the powers-to-be will never go for it. Like they say, "follow the money", and it does lead to some very interesting places, even here in the good ol' USA !
What are you, a conservative or something?
Seriously, I think you're absolutely correct.
And my guess is that 1% of the people agree with you. Convince another 50% and it'll be the law of the land.
"The cost base analysis of fighting the war on drugs shows it to be a huge waste of money."
Pfffft! The cost of the War on Drugs is lost in rounding.
The 2006 federal ONDCP budget (for enforcement AND education) is $12.4 billion -- in a total federal budget of $2.57 trillion. That's less than one-half of one percent.
"And when you legalize it, you then take the criminal nature out of it and you take out all the cartels."
Legalize all drugs in the U.S. and you'll bring all the cartels here to smuggle our legal recreational drugs to the rest of the world where drugs remain illegal -- unless your pipe dream includes the legalization of all drugs worldwide. Hey, if you're going to dream, dream big.
"We just don't have the guts or common sense to do it.
It doesn't take guts to give up.