>>Then name your poison:
1. Better increase welfare for people who are going to be permanently unhirable because of drugs.
2. If you cut off welfare for drug addicts, expect a crime wave, the likes you’ve never seen before.<<
You pose a false dichotomy. Legalization of drugs<>additional usage. The current drug users will find them, legal or not. Legalized drugs won’t all of a sudden make them more attractive (we have both tobacco and alcohol as examples of how habits are formed and associated behaviors).
Legalization would give us the opportunity to target and help people who are addicted. Currently, they are “underground.”
That is just a tiny part of the practical argument — you completely ignore my Constitutional argument (and that is more compelling).
So what about the typical suburban user. Where do they do to get their fix......the hood, right?
Now, knowing that, how many potential users are discouraged from using simply because of this fact?
Now if they could get their fix in a more comfortable environment, I suspect that lowers the barrier a bit.
To quote Dennis Miller, “that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.”
I would just conclude with two words, “Opium Dens.”