In 1979, drug use was almost triple its lowest point in the 90's. Returning to the 1979 level would be a 200% increase -- and drugs were illegal in 1979!
Do you realize how completely stupid what you wrote is? Mocking you: In 19 30 marijuana use was about 1% of what is today. Returning to the 1930 level would be 99% decrease -- and drugs marijuana was legal then. Imagine the decrease if marijuana were legal! Use would easily decrease by 50% -- and that's very conservative
You merely picked a date that had high drug usage and compared it to a date of low drug usage and then stated the increase as a percentage. Absolutely no causation whatsoever. And meaningless correlation which is irrelevant anyhow.
You are un-friggin-believable. Did you actually think you could pass that off as legitimate argument to support continuation of drug prohibition? Yes, you most certainly did. You are truly sick. Please RP, get back on your meds.
It is a fact that drug use was higher at one time. Sigificantly higher. The laws were the same, and what brought it down was enforcement and an attitude change. You're proposing the elimination of enforcement and a relaxation of our attitude about drugs -- legalization, unlike decriminalization, sends the message that drug use isn't so bad.
Given that, my point is that with those factors removed -- the factors that were responsible for the decline -- we could easily go back to where we were in 1979. A 200% increase.
That makes my 50% estimate look reasonable. That was my point.
Now, if your point is that, with legalization, drug use will drop 99% (to where is was when drugs used to be legal), fine.
So, on the one hand, I say that with legalization, drug use could increase from 6% of the population to 9%. You say it could decrease 99%. Who's off their meds?