[AlbertWang]

I’ve changed my stance on Drugs substantially over the past decade.

I have no use for dopers or meth heads.

However, if we believe the basic theories of economics, and if we look at what we should have learned from prohibition, it becomes obvious that the current drug laws:
1) Make the wrong people rich
2) Are responsible for 50,000 dead south of the border.

Cary Nation set the stage for Al Capone.
Tough drug laws have very negative consequences.

[muawiyah]

The rate of carnage could be easily reduced by executing the druggies and their enablers.

Might be a sharp spike at the beginning of the campaign, but eventually things drop off ~

The experience of China is before us ~ uncontrolled use of opium based drugs ended up costing them nearly two centuries of civilization and resulted in tens of millions of deaths.

[RegulatorCountry]

Agreed. Police state tactics in response to a moral collapse is what we’ve been doing. Drug use is a symptom of that moral collapse. So, we respond by taking away Constitutional freedoms for everyone, leaving us open to the proverbial knock on the door in the middle of night, well, no, they don’t knock.