[WyldKard]

Legalizaing dope will not eliminate the horrific external costs associated with dope.

Lets see:

No longer spending $20 billion dollars a year (more if you include state efforts)

Reduction in crime when dealers are no longer shooting each other up for territory

Fewer OD's from people using tainted or impure product

Reduction in FedGov power

Constitutional rights restored

Far MORE resources freed up to fight terrorism, murder, theft, etc...

Additional revenue streams from sales of regulated products like pot. (I personally don't want coke and heroin sold like booze and cigs...)

Money retained in-Nation, and not flowing out to foreign sources.

There are all horrible things...to socialists like you, I imagine.

It will merely repackage them and serve them up to taxpayers in another form. The "medicinal marijuana" con is one such repackaging. Before long we'll providing poor suffering dopers with supplemental social security and weed at taxpayer expense so they can spend their days stoned and voting for their socialist benefactors.

Oh please...do we provide free alcohol to alcoholics now? Free cigarettes and caffine to THOSE addicts? Your tinfoil cap is on too tightly, Kevin!

[Kevin Curry]

If you really think legalizing dope will eliminate ONE government job, prison cell, or agency, you are really dense or malinformed. It will simply create ANOTHER layer of bureaucracy--the doper-coddling rehab bureaucracy--to overlay the current one.