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The Drug War has created massive government employment by unleashing a plague of unnecessary violence via the black market. The vast resources wasted on the futile attempt to eliminate the consumption of cannabis, the cancerous growth of black markets, the rise of deadly synthetic drugs as well as the tragic abuse of prescription drugs, the creation of a broad criminal class, the bulging prisons, the grinding into dust of our liberty and the generations lost in the mire of one of the most tragically unnecessary policy failures in this country's history comprise the evidence to support complete legalization.

And this is the sort of thing said by people who have absolutely no f***ing clue as to what happened to China.

The Fire is not an improvement over the frying pan. Your petty little concerns about the "drug war" pale into insignificance when compared to what happens when a nation doesn't FIGHT a drug war.

You Libertarians are going to get us all killed with your stupid drug legalization propaganda, but you're too f***ing ignorant to realize it.

Learn something relevant to the topic. Okay?

When opium was legal in the USA, its use never got anywhere near the levels in China - and the addiction rate was no higher than heroin addiction today:

“The peak of opiate addiction in the United States occurred about the turn of the century, when the number probably was close to 250,000 in a population of 76 million” - David F. Musto MD, http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/ophs.htm

“numbers like heroin addiction. You can find numbers that go from 255,000 up to the one I’m currently using, 980,000, if I remember the last time we updated it, and those are all valid scientific studies.” —Drug Czar Mcaffrey, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/symposium/panelmccaffrey.html