I seem to recall that your cavalier response to that has been, "If they commit a crime because of drugs, then arrest them for that crime". Did I get that right?
Or does that only apply to users?
"Then there's the crime committed by users to pay those drug-war-inflated prices."
And that won't go away unless you're proposing using my tax dollars to give away free drugs. Have you any data showing a correlation between crimes like burglary, robbery, and prostitution and the price of drugs to support your statement?
I thought countries like Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark had to resort to free drugs to stop the crime.
Or does that only apply to users?
The proper response to the crimes of some alcohol users is to arrest them for those crimes, not to criminalize all alcohol sale and use; the proper response to alcohol criminalization's putting inflated profits in criminal hands was to end alcohol criminalization, not step it up. Do you disagree?
And that [the crime committed by users to pay those drug-war-inflated prices] won't go away unless you're proposing using my tax dollars to give away free drugs.
Straw man. It will be lessened by legalization and the resulting price drop.
Have you any data showing a correlation between crimes like burglary, robbery, and prostitution and the price of drugs to support your statement?
It's basic economics.
I thought countries like Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark had to resort to free drugs to stop the crime.
Sounds like nonsense to me ... Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark stopped crime?