[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Stossel did say that. He sets out in elaborate detail how legalizing drugs will solve the drug problem.

Read "Give Me a Break" for his absurd hypothesis.

[rottndog]

Haven't read the book, but I don't think he would say that all the problems associated with drug use would go away. No government WOD would mean that we would simply be exchanging one set of problems for another, while achieving the benefit of getting the government out of the practice of policing what people choose to do to themselves.

BTW, how is his hypothesis any more absurd than the failed prohibition we have now?

[Physicist]

Read "Give Me a Break" for his absurd hypothesis.

I read it cover-to-cover, and what you say is simply false.

Stossel no more believes that ALL drug problems will be solved by ending the WOD than he believes all alcohol problems were solved by ending prohibition. But ending prohibition sure solved most of them.

[calex59]

The absurd hypothesis as you put it, is based on fact. One fact that is easily checked is the repeal of prohibition. How anyone can understand that repealing prohibition eleminated, at least 99 percent, the crime associated with Alcohol and think that somehow the methods used agains alchohol will work with drugs is flabergasting! Particularly in light of the faillure of the WOD and the ease with which people obtain drugs.

The truth is, if drugs were legalized addiction would drop, as alcoholism and drinking dropped when prohibition was repealed.

Stop making drugs profitable by legalizing them and you will take the crime out of it.

The reason gangs and the mafia started selling drugs was because their alcohol money dried up. Legalize drugs and that dries up, viola, no crime, no drug runners, no street gangs because their money would be gone.

Back in the 1930s thru the 50s, street gangs were a minor element because they had no money to purchase serious weapons. With the advent of gangs selling drugs they became a major factor in our lives. MS-13 for example would leave here if there was no drug money to be made, drug runners would stop coming across the border because they couldn't make a profit here.

People who can't see that are just blind to the truth and letting their morality and the fact they want to control other people and tell them what to do get in the way of clear thinking.

[Protagoras]

He sets out in elaborate detail how legalizing drugs will solve the drug problem.

Nonsense, And I'd bet you everything you own about it.

Drug warriors will make up anything.