[exDemMom]

We have tried criminalization and that created the war on drugs bonanza which created enormous financial incentives not to solve the problem.

I don’t buy the argument that criminalization doesn’t work, therefore drugs should be legal. No activity has ever been stopped by making it illegal, but making certain activities illegal certainly does help to decrease the incidence of those activities.

For example, most murder is illegal. And the numbers of murders committed illegally is fairly low—fewer than 16,000 in 2016. But murder of the preborn is legal, and almost one million children are murdered legally per year. Thus, in this example, making the activity legal increased its incidence by about 62 fold. The increase is actually far greater, if I compare murder rates of the preborn before and after murdering babies was made legal.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Criminalization limits supply. As well as demand

I never would have tried it if it had not been made available. Had the enforcement been stronger, then I might not had ever had the opportunity in the first place

At least it wasn’t legal so the 21 year olds could’nt have bought it for us minors.

[Garth Tater]

"I don’t buy the argument that criminalization doesn’t work, therefore drugs should be legal. No activity has ever been stopped by making it illegal, but making certain activities illegal certainly does help to decrease the incidence of those activities."

No consideration of personal freedom in that line of thought, Mom? Sounds like you haven't quite left your old, Democrat statist ways behind you.