I’d rather stop most of the problem by allowing low level drugs. Most drug users, if they can get a little high, will satisfy themselves with that. Only a comparative few will still move on to illegal harder drugs.
Are things falling apart in Colorado? Is that state having to deal with an influx of heroin and crack since it made marijuana legal?
Citation needed.
Drugs are a cultural and spiritual problem. People get high because it is a short-cut to pleasure. We live in a society of short-cuts and pleasure seeking. Legalizing weed won't fix that. The real solution is long, hard, and cultural in nature. That's why no one wants to do it... and people suggest short-cut fixes like legalization...