So if you think pot ought to be legalized, so beit but there is no reason to suppose that the the so-called benefits would result.
As for not thinking about the issue...well, over the years I've seen a general lowering of the mores of the society around me and the relaxation of the restraints against many kinds of behavior that were once taken as unthinkable.
Society has not been bettered by hedonism tarted up as freedom.
I have freedoms too. One of which is being able to use the parks without fear of being shot by some grower protecting his patch.
The War on Drugs has been mishandled as most government programs are but that is not an argument in favor of making drugs legal. Legalization would be just as badly mishandled and the results just as disappointing.
“The War on Drugs has been mishandled as most government programs are but that is not an argument in favor of making drugs legal. Legalization would be just as badly mishandled and the results just as disappointing.”
You fly all over the place and then come to some enormously fallacious conclusion. We have an ACTUAL example of prohibitions’ effect on both criminalization and legalization. Taking alcohol production out of the hands of black marketers is a precise correlation and proves the exact opposite of your conclusion.
One more thing...
Your referring to “The War on Drugs” as simply mishandled is the most callous understatement since Dear Leader pronounced the deaths in Benghazi as “not optimal”.