Is there a drug more deserving of prohibition than alchohol? Your own arguments would tend to indicate that alchohol is probably the worst drug there is.
And yet you don't want to make it illegal, you would rather keep the more benign substances illegal. I think I smell a hidden agenda here.
I have done some research into where the money comes from to support the war on drugs and it comes from two primary sources. the largest by far is from coerced taxpayers, but the alchohol companies are the largest single special interest contributers.
By analogy, some of the biggest contributers to the environmentalist organizations are the big oil companies. Do you think that just maybe the big oil companies might benefit from fewer oil wells being dug and no new refineries. It is a win/win situation for the enviromentalists and big oil.
It is exactly the same situation with the war on drugs. Alchohol companies want less scrutiny and less competition. Politicians want more money and power. Police, courts and prisons systems get more money, etc. Again it is a win/win situation for the government and some big businesses.
Do you notice a common victim here? Maybe I should spell it out, it is all of us, the great unwashed masses, flyover country, etc.
I guarantee that if hard drugs were as popular as alchohol they would be legal. Funny how that works isn't it.
"I think I smell a hidden agenda here."No, nothing sinister. Alcohol and tobacco have been a part our culture since the Pilgrims landed.
Cocaine and heroin, marijuana, PCP, LSD, methamphetamine, and all the other recreational drugs have not. When they did surface, like marijuana or opium, they were part of the sub-culture.
Drugs are not legal or illegal solely based on their relative danger. Never were.
"but the alchohol companies are the largest single special interest contributers."
Really? Huh. I bet if drugs were legal, it would be the alcohol (or cigarette) companies that would either manufacture and/or distribute them through their existing wholesale and retail channels. Boy are they stupid -- they're missing out on all that money to be made with legal drugs.