[dinasour]

Alcohol is the most dangerous drug known to man. It is responsible for more death and violence than all other drugs combined.

Yes, but is this because it is so much more prevalent and easily available?

My concern is that if all other drugs were as easily obtained, their use, and the problems associated with them would skyrocket, while the problems associated with the war on drugs, would fall.

The choice that has to be made is: which is worse?

I don't claim to know the answer. It may not be possible to know. But it would be wrong to think that drug use would remain at current levels if it were legalized.

[mugs99]

But it would be wrong to think that drug use would remain at current levels if it were legalized

We were told that if prohibition were repealed alcohol abuse would become epidemic. It went down.

Over twenty years ago heroin addiction was epidemic in Holland. They had a tougher drug war than we now have. They ended their drug war. Heroin addiction went down and is now the lowest in the free world.

Prohibition, alcohol or drugs, increases addiction, crime and death. Prohibition does not make kids safer, it increases their risk.
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