[Conservative til I die]

Regulation does not necessarily lead to no black market. It's just a guess.

This is what passes for logic with drug warriors. Not trying to insult you or anything, but national policy should not be decided on "just a guess."

That's the same kind of 1-dimensional "logic" that leads people to think banning guns will eradicate crime.

Think the drug lords in South America or Asia will stop selling drugs in this country just because they have competition from the government? Of course not!!

It may not totally eliminate them (is there any policy that achieves 100% of what it seeks?), but when you take away much of the profit motive, they will move on to something else. Have you seen any bootlegging gangs lately?

Legalization of any kind will just lead to more people using drugs at more times. Today airline pilots go to work drunk. Tomorrow they would go to work high.

It's possible that there might be an increase in drug use. However, we would deal with it the same way we do with alcohol. You drink on the job, you get disciplined or worse. That hopefully will deter people from doing so on the job.

But again, you're asking for perfection, which is unattainable (and I don't think any Libertarian is actually proposing that legalization will eradicate drug use). Instead, ask yourself if overall, America will be better off with an insane drug war policy or something, anything (I'd be willing to take tiny baby steps on this) else.

[robertpaulsen]

"Not trying to insult you or anything"

I took it that way, especially when your response agreed with Ecliptic's statement.

He said, "Regulation does not necessarily lead to no black market."

You said, "Think the drug lords in South America or Asia will stop selling drugs in this country just because they have competition from the government? Of course not!!"

Tell me what's different.