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I want addicts to be able to seek treatment without being dissuaded by the fear of criminal prosecution. And if they don't want to seek treatment, I want them to be able to buy their fix by collecting soda cans from the garbage or begging for spare change like the drunk bums do, instead of by stealing $100 a pop from me and my neighbors and enriching a criminal syndicate. And if they are bound for the grave, I want them to die quietly from an overdose under a bridge like the drunk bums do, instead of forcing me to kill them in defense of myself and my family during a robbery or a hot burglary.

May very well be the most ridiculous argument I have ever heard. I especially like the soda can collecting. That is without question the most asinine assertion I have seen or heard to date. You seem to think that when drugs are legal that they will be cheap, and that the tax revenues generated will pay for the treatment programs, and all the other social ills to be visited upon us as a society. You cannot be more wrong.

I may have my fingers in my ears but it sure beats having my hands over my eyes, which you clearly have. One cannot reason with drunks or stupidity. Since I cannot verify the former, you have indeed proved the latter.

You seem to think that when drugs are legal that they will be cheap,

Of course they will ... that's basic economics.

and that the tax revenues generated will pay for the treatment programs, and all the other social ills to be visited upon us as a society.

Straw men. Nothing in the text you quoted implies any of that ... it doesn't even mention taxes.