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Yes, it can, but evidently not dramatically enough or quickly enough for the notorious short-commitment span of the American people. For example, drug courts established in my home state and elsewhere are achieving remarkable results in terms of both recovery and in the reduction of criminal recidivism.

I call BS. Not quickly enough? They have been fighting this so called WOD since I was young, I am well over 60 now. We not only haven't won,and are not winning now, we have taken relatively benign street gangs who had little money and crummy little weapons such as zip guns and chains and have helped them gain financial independence(the same way gangs did duriong prohibition), and who are now about as well armed as they can get because they have the money to do so. Money that they obtained by selling and running illegal drugs.

As long as drugs are illegal we will have them in this country, the demand makes it so, and as long as they are illegal we will have street gangs killing, robbing and generally causing violence in order to maintain the wealth they have now. It was true with booze and it is true with drugs.

Legalize, we will still have drugs but we won't have the crime that goes with the illegal selling of them.

Rum runners are virtually gone from this country because of the legalizing of booze by the lifting of prohibition. Anyone who can't see the problem would be solved by legalizing drugs is an idiot and if you fall into the category they you are truely blind to the ways of the world and are more interested in forcing your version of morality onto people than you are with stopping the crime involved in the WOD.

Anyone who can't see the problem would be solved by legalizing drugs is an idiot and if you fall into the category they you are truely blind to the ways of the world and are more interested in forcing your version of morality onto people than you are with stopping the crime involved in the WOD.

thanks, you made many good points!