just so all you free druggers/libertarians rememeber:...the biggest problem with drug addled people is from prescription drugs...its absolutely epidemic....
so we could have all the legal drugs in the world.....we'll still have millions willing to rob,assualt,steal etc just to get another percocet/oxycontin...
..they never can have enough....so they resort to crime...
And
“just so all you free druggers/libertarians remember:...”
When (and because) drug addicted people, prescription OR illicit, are allowed to vote, the are in fact harming others - many, actually.
I am loathe to even take an aspirin or Advil with a headache
LOL. It's the tyrannical Drug War, and its associated black markets, which drive the street cost of these government controlled substances into the stratosphere.
In a free and open market, the cost of these things would be negligible, which would virtually eliminate the crimes which you bemoan.
Contraband law is Tyrannical law, and it will always produce magnitudes more misery (and less freedom, of course) than the problems it attempts to solve, just as alcohol Prohibition did.
A blind man could see it with a cane...
Nonsense. You have completely flipped the story around to try to hide the fact it disproves your position. The vast majority of prescription drug users are legal - it's the number of them that's the "epidemic," NOT the number of them that turn to crime. On the other hand, criminalizing other drugs that are just as destructive and dangerous makes ALL of those users criminals - and gives us the prison state we have today.
Not to mention that teeny little legal issue of whether you own your own body, or whether the state does.