[FormerLib]

So, again, to be fair, the libertarians are right: legalizing drugs would reduce our prison population both for drug crimes and secondary crimes associated with them.

But the libertarians are wrong when they suggest that there wouldn't be an increase in crimes committed by drug-intoxicated and/or hallucinating individuals.

[JamesP81]

But the libertarians are wrong when they suggest that there wouldn't be an increase in crimes committed by drug-intoxicated and/or hallucinating individuals.

That remains to be seen. I tend to agree with you in that I *think* there would be, at least initially, but I have no way to prove that.

The balance govt should strike when weighing whether a law is outside the govt's purview (which is securing individual rights) and establishing principle in law is a very hard one to achieve.

[TheKidster]

But the libertarians are wrong when they suggest that there wouldn’t be an increase in crimes committed by drug-intoxicated and/or hallucinating individuals.

How do you figure, what’s your proof that in countries that have decriminalized recreational drug use the crime rate related to drugs has increased?
And the imaginiary country in your mind doesn’t count, give us a real country.
If you don’t respond with actual documented facts we’ll all on this board know you are wrong, have no facts and have just responded out of emotion and prejudice.

Thanks, I can’t wait to read your documented examples.