And where is the market if the drugs become legal? Is a homeboy going to compete with Walgreens?
You call me an ignorant ass of a fool, but everything you say can be said and has been said of alcohol, right down to the gangsters machine-gunning speakeasies of their competition. If you had been alive then, you would be telling me sanctimoniously to ride along with some revenue agents, busting illegal moonshine operations, getting shot at, and do I still think that horrible drink should be made legal? Now, alcohol is legal and those crimes of violence are essentially gone. We tried prohibition once, and admitted it was a big mistake. We're trying it again. It's still a big mistake, and people like yourselves cannot distinguish between the problems of drugs, and problems of prohibition.
Incidentally, the first prohibition got us the BATF, the first federal gun control laws (NFA'34), it firmly established the Mafia in America, and got the Kennedy family into politics, thanks to corruption. The Drug War is bringing many more evils than that into every one else's lives.
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but everything you say can be said and has been said of alcohol,
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You ever see someone crawl through broken glass for a shot of bourbon? To put it in terms even a fool libertarian can understand: When demand for a product is so high people will KILL to get it, then others will kill to sell it to them.
Here's what will happen if you legalize drugs: Use will skyrocket. Unemployment will skyrocket. Crime will skyrocket.
And your comments on Alcohol are urban legend. Fewer people died during prohibition than after. Have you looked lately at the number of people killed by drunk drivers in this country? Tell me again that ending prohibition reduced deaths.
So, is it morally superior to legalize a product that will fill your morgues with victims but might reduce high-visibility murders?
Oh, right. The Libertarian mindset: I can do whatever the hell I want and don't you try to stop me, and if someone else dies, well, then they should just hurry up and do it and decrease the surplus population.
The push to legalize drugs is raw, naked evil at work.