[JamesP81]

If you legalize crack, you aren’t going to create model citizens who just happen to like crack. Instead you now have a guy who robs or steals to support his now legal habit.

To be fair to the libertarians, if you legalize it, the price drops significantly. The low supply and risk associated with producing, transporting, and selling it is what keeps the price so high. If it becomes very inexpensive, then at least the crack user only has to steal to support a 10 dollar a day habit instead of 100 dollar a day habit. Many can come up with that money and won't have to steal at all. So, again, to be fair, the libertarians are right: legalizing drugs would reduce our prison population both for drug crimes and secondary crimes associated with them.

[FormerLib]

So, again, to be fair, the libertarians are right: legalizing drugs would reduce our prison population both for drug crimes and secondary crimes associated with them.

But the libertarians are wrong when they suggest that there wouldn't be an increase in crimes committed by drug-intoxicated and/or hallucinating individuals.

[cripplecreek]

if you legalize it, the price drops significantly.

And then the government comes along and taxes it driving the price right back to where it was or even higher. Also there's the irrational dangerous behavior of crack addicts that still needs to be dealt with.

[SoldierDad]

If it becomes very inexpensive, then at least the crack user only has to steal to support a 10 dollar a day habit instead of 100 dollar a day habit. Many can come up with that money and won't have to steal at all.

Then it is possible to be a "crack" addict and hold down a blue collar or white collar job, maintain your monthy expenses, keep your marriage together, and take care of your children without going "postal" on them simply by making the drug cheaper to obtain? Legalizing crack and other mind altering drugs will prevent these people from becoming cognitive zombies and going out and engaging in behaviors which threaten the community? Yeah, I'll buy that (Not).