[fwdude]

Again, there is no such thing as "legalizing" something that has such a deleterious potential. In fact, "legalizing" recreational drugs involves massively INCREASING the laws needed to mitigate their hazards.

What takes 2 or 3 pages of legal code to ban outright becomes 2 or 3 thousand pages of management laws, plus a massive, expensive new bureaucracy to manage it.

[Brian Griffin]

“there is no such thing as ‘legalizing’ something that has such a deleterious potential”

Recreational drugs were federally legal until 1909.