[Carry_Okie]

The cartels won't go out of business. They'll steal and sell whatever sells. Sex sells. Hence, the big business will be in human trafficking of sex slaves. By the same logic, we'll have to legalize prostitution too. Then it will be children for pedophiles. So by the same logic, we'll have to legalize pedophilia too.

As long as users go unpunished, legalization is the only option.

[driftdiver]

Roughly 53% of the people in Federal Prison are there because of drugs.

America has a bigger percentage of our population in prison than any other country. .94% of our population is in prison, 2.9% is on probation, parole, jail, or in prison.

Yet drug use remains high and availability is easy. The police continue to ramp up their militarization and freedoms suffer.

Punishment and legalization are not the answer but neither is the war on drugs. Why do some people use drugs and others not?