[Strategerist]

Unfortunately the rest of society will pay a costly price in increased crime, the deterioration of inner city neighborhoods, the costs of medical treatment and rehabilitation for drug addicts, destroyed families - wayward sons and daughters, which cause more of the previously mentioned problems...

Give me evidence of a single narcotic where any of the above has been prevented by attempting to interdict supply.

[Raycpa]

The law of supply and demand applies to everything but drugs?

[bouillabaisse]

Alcohol! Oh wait...

[ImaGraftedBranch]

Give me evidence of a single narcotic where any of the above has been prevented by attempting to interdict supply.

Well, I haven't run for president yet. Were I to be elected, my 100-day plan is simple:

Any person, foreign or domestic, caught in the act of manufacturing cocaine, heroin, crack, or other super-addictive non-medical use drug would be shot on the spot.
Any country willfully allowing citizens to create said drugs for the purpose of export, or doing nothing to stop said manufacturing, would be bombed into the stone age.

Those kinds of drugs alter the chemical balance in the brain *and* organs, and make it next-to-impossible to eradicate the intense cravings. For some of those drugs, like crack, all it takes is one time for someone to get hooked.

When people on those drugs start selling their own children's toy's, robbing their friends and neighbors, or committing other crimes to feed their need, it is evidence of one of the most nefarious, evil methods of personal destruction in existence. When a drug can cause the consideration of right and wrong to be completely concealed in a human being, it goes beyond a personal decision and becomes a matter of survival of civilization as a whole.

I don't care about the potheads that want to fry their brains, as marijuana, from everything I have read, is not massively addicting.

But I would not care about impeachment if I were President. I would act, lawfully or not.