What exactly do you consider that statement to be? I consider that statment as saying..."your stupid".
You're mistaken. A statement about something you've posted is not a statement about you ... you are not your posts.
I do not think that:
1) legalizing drugs will eliminate the black market
Legalizing the drug alcohol decimated the black market in that drug.
nor will it put production of drugs into the hands of more responsible producers.
Legalizing the drug alcohol put production of that drug into the hands of more responsible producers.
2)The taxes generated by the sale of these substances will not offset the destruction wraught by the users/abusers on their families and on society as a whole.
They're wreaking destruction already ... and much of it is because of drug criminalization and the consequent high prices and motivation to steal.
3) Will not reduce crime, due to lower prices, but actually increase crime due to increased availablilty.
I have never read of a crime committed while under the influence of the depressant heroin ... but have often read of crimes committed by heroin addicts looking for the money for their next fix.
Man held on drug charge after crashA 31-year-old Petaluma man was arrested for driving under the influence of heroin after smashing into the back of a car at Stony Point Road and West Sierra Avenue Sunday morning, causing the 77-year-old driver to suffer severe cuts and her passenger to break an ankle, said California Highway Patrol sources.
http://www1.arguscourier.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060809/NEWS01/60808030
11/13/95CONTACT: Stanford University News Service (415) 723-2558
Man arrested for indecent exposure
STANFORD -- Stanford police arrested a Palo Alto man Saturday, Nov. 11, after a woman reported that he had exposed his genitals to her in a parking lot near Maples Pavilion.The woman said she was walking through the lot about noon when a man got out of a car and pulled up his shorts to expose his penis. The woman went to Maples and called 911.
Stanford police Capt. Raoul Niemeyer said Royal Anthony Norman, 45, was arrested and booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on charges of indecent exposure, being under the influence of heroin and being in possession of drug paraphernalia
I don't get the point of this...I am not going to change my mind about legalizing drugs. There is no argument, postion, or supposed fact, that is going to alter my opinion.
I should know better than to get into the drug debates...they're pointless.
I have plenty of first hand exprience with drugs. When I was twenty-nothing I was of the opinion that you are....I have since grown out of that phase and have come to realize that I was wrong. Drugs are harmful to all who come into contact with them either by direct ingestion or by interaction with those who are users/under the influence.