Are you implying I break any drug laws? You're mistaken.
Your claim that the only victims are users and buyers of drugs is ludicrous on its face. How much damage has been done to families,
SOME drug users - inlcuing users of the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol - victimize their spouses and children by rendering themselves unable to meet their responsibilities. Why should ALL users - including those with no spouses or children - be punished?
how much of a burden on the rest of society is imposed by an underclass of impaired unemployables.
Society has accepted that burden (through its elected representatives); I recommend society reverse that decision.
What has equally hyperinflated drug prices is the willingness of the criminals who buy and use drugs to pay any price to feed their own desires.
Yes, it takes both users and laws against sale. We've seen for alcohol and other drugs that such users can't be eliminated - the living-in-reality choice is to eliminate the laws.
A lack of restraint in the personal lives of the population has always been the mark of decay and there is no reason to think widespread drug use today is not part of that decay.
Nor is there any reason to think that banning drugs has done anything to arrest that decay, or done anything but hyperinflate drug profits and channel those profits into criminal and terrorist hands.
“Are you implying I break any drug laws? You're mistaken”
I'm implying no such thing. If you took it that way, I'm sorry.
“Yes, it takes both users and laws against sale. We've seen for alcohol and other drugs that such users can't be eliminated - the living-in-reality choice is to eliminate the laws”
Given abuse of alcohol is a problem why on earth add fuel to the fire?
“SOME drug users - inlcuing users of the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol - victimize their spouses and children by rendering themselves unable to meet their responsibilities. Why should ALL users - including those with no spouses or children - be punished?”
Why punish speeders who have never had a wreck?