Your replies, your attempt to counter-argue, have just become silly.
“Baseless hysteria”
Really? My predictions of what will happen are based upon historical fact, which you try to refute by saying, “Well, no, maybe...”
Let’s talk about your baseless optimism that legalizing drugs will simply make everyone’s life better, richer, freer, more prosperous. “Hoping” (like a supporter of Obammie the Commie) that everything will be better in the future if we just legalize a poison is...
Baseless optimism.
You've cited no historicAL facts.
Lets talk about your baseless optimism that legalizing drugs will simply make everyones life better, richer, freer, more prosperous.
Legalizing will by definition lessen the harms caused or aggravated by criminalization.