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“Those are creations of the War On Drugs; legalize, and they'll be as common as hidden alcohol stills”

So you say. That would be “mind altering drug alcohol”, right?

The advocates of drug legalization trot out the “mind altering drug alcohol” is equal to pot argument time after time yet alcohol can be used without impairment of mental ability and judgment while such impairment is the whole purpose of drug use.

So no I don't favor returning to the Prohibition Era.

“Only for medicinal use with a doctor's recommendation - a mini-”legalization” that nobody has ever claimed would take the profit and crime out of pot. Greatly reduced prices, profits, and crime can be expected when and only when drugs are available to any adult who has the money (as is currently the case for the mind-altering drug alcohol).”

The “Only for medicinal use with a doctor's recommendation” rule has in fact made pot available to anyone who wants it and has the price. This de facto legalization has not taken crime out of the equation.
And the forest plots are still there.

I have no doubt that legalization of pot will continue with other drugs to follow.

I see it simply as part of the rot of a society that is becoming more accepting of every kind of vice, homosexual “marriage”, pornography, prostitution.

Those are creations of the War On Drugs; legalize, and they'll be as common as hidden alcohol stills.

So you say.

So history says - stills were common when the mind-altering drug alcohol was illegal and became rare when it was legalized. Conservatives learn from history ... liberals cling to utopian fantasies (like a drug-free society).

alcohol can be used without impairment of mental ability and judgment

But is very often used otherwise.

while such impairment is the whole purpose of drug use.

Such impairment was the whole purpose of alcohol use when that mind-altering drug was illegal. (Or do you think many patrons of illegal speakeasies were there only to drink ceremonial toasts?)

So no I don't favor returning to the Prohibition Era.

Nor should you favor our current drug prohibition, which is having all the negative effects that alcohol Prohibition did.

The “Only for medicinal use with a doctor's recommendation” rule has in fact made pot available to anyone who wants it and has the price.

So long as suppliers don't have to compete in an open legal market - as they still don't in California - prices will remain hyperinflated and profits restricted to criminal hands, fueling crime by both sellers and addicted users.