[Dudoight]

This is certainly an option. Prohibition of alcohol didn't work, it created a powerful mafia. How successful was this legalization in the netherlands, or Holland. I don't know.

[Thermalseeker]

This is certainly an option.

It will never, ever happen for one simple reason. Trial Lawyers.....

[Thermalseeker]

This is certainly an option.

It will never, ever happen for one simple reason. Trial Lawyers.....

[dirtboy]

Prohibition of alcohol didn't work, it created a powerful mafia.

However, we also have about 15,000 people a year killed by drunk drivers and over 100,000 alcohol-related deaths per year. So legalization takes one form of violence and replaces it with another.

IMO there is no good answer here - only bad and worse. Any approach that does not deal with the demand for this stuff is doomed for failure. I think the current drug war is crazy, but I'm not pretending that legalization would be a pancea.

But one thing we can do right away is to get the feds to decriminalize pot. Not legalize, but decriminalize. Pot is of an entire different nature than hard drugs such as meth, and IMO the feds should quit having such an issue with it and let the states try different approaches.

[A CA Guy]

I don't know that prohibition of alcohol didn't work. I think you had less cases of drinking and new alcoholics during such a time.

A prohibition by it's very nature will cause less use of something.

Let's say there is a prohibition of the color RED.
I bet if there were fines attached that there would be almost no Red around in public during such prohibition times.

I'm not saying anything regarding the merits of a prohibition past or present in this post, but do want to point out logic to you that when there is a prohibition on an activity, that activity will happen less often.

(Simple example) There is a prohibition regarding non-students on high school campuses.
There are in many cases fences and perhaps even a guard or two at schools to enforce the laws.
Well, to some extent that works, but some non-students still try to get in.
That is the simple nature of criminally, just as we have outside drug dealers trying to get their illegal stuff to our lands.
The prohibition on illegal drugs from especially other countries to here does have some success, for without it you would be flooded with stuff. With it the flow is reduced.

[Gaffer]

Maybe we could kill two birds with one stone and "legalize drugged-up illegal aliens?"