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It may be difficult to comprehend but without drug USERS there would be few drug DEALERS.

That is not difficult to understand at all. And if pot was legalized there would not be any pot dealers either. There would still be drug dealers, but instead of having to deal with 25 million users, they would only have to deal with 2 or three.

One hand washes the other, one hand is willing to murder wholesale and the other hand really doesn't care as long they can get what they want.

They just do not make the connection. They are doing something they enjoy and are not directly harming anyone. And it depends on where you live as well. In Washington state where I live, all of it is either grown here or imported from Canada. No violence there.

And it is not like the DEA gives a hoot how many people are getting killed in Mexico. In fact that the DEA head actually said that the increase in the murder rate was a sign that the efforts in Mexico were working. And even with all the money they spend, by their own numbers they catch less than 1% of the pot coming into this country.

Since the only way to stop usage would be to drug test everyone in the country every day and throw the Constitution in the waste basket, I think it makes sense to legalize pot and concentrate efforts on the more harmful ones used by a lot less people.

When Nixon started the war on drugs, the panel he appointed to come up with the regulations (lead by a very conservative governor from Pennsylvania) recommended not outlawing pot because there were too many users, it it a fairly mild drug, and that it would breed corruption and lack of respect for the laws, which has come true.