Beginning users of what drug? If you mean ANY drug, most users begin with alcohol, and I don't know anyone who as they began to drink alcohol trivialized the risks of heroin. (Ditto for beginning users of marijuana.) If you mean beginning users of heroin, they weren't deterred by illegality so they don't support your claim.
Um, if they are in jail, they aren't using it, right?
So better we pay their room and board than they use drugs? Sounds liberal to me.
Alcohol servers other purposes. Cooking. Even to some extent, medicinal
So despite the extensive damage done to buzz-seeking drinkers and those in their path, the legality of alcohol is justified by these other trivial uses? That's a very weak argument.
>>most users begin with alcohol<<
Try marijuana.
>>I don't know anyone who as they began to drink alcohol trivialized the risks of heroin.<<
Whether they trivialized it or not isn't the issue. They didn't plan on becoming addicted to anything. They planned on a high, and that was it. Pretty soon, they have a habit.
>>better we pay their room and board than they use drugs? Sounds liberal to me.<<
Again, this isn't the issue. You suggested there was no link between decriminalization and increased use. That's absurd, and you damn well know it.
>>despite the extensive damage done to buzz-seeking drinkers<<
This is an assumption. And again, you are missing the point: alcohol can be kept entirely non-illicit. Sure it can be abused, but paint, markers, hair spray, and the like can be abused. There's only one use for heroin, LSD, etc.
>>the legality of alcohol is justified by these other trivial uses? That's a very weak argument.<<
To you, anything logical is going to sound weak because you are making little sense. When a particular use of a product is the majority use, how can that use be trivial?
Don't respond unless you can stay on issue and make more sense. Your post is mostly silly.