[jbp1]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

[from occupied ga]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

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[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

Sure. Legal drugs would be supplied to guys like this in the form of government welfare benefits to the poor. ;)

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

But you see, when drugs are legal, addicts will simply be able to walk into the nearest drug store and buy the narcotic of their choice.

Of course, that still doesn't address the issue of where they'll get the money to buy the legal drugs, or how the problem of addiction itself will go away once drugs are even more easily obtained, or how addiction renders a person much less likely to be able to hold a job and be financially stable so as to buy drugs without resorting to crime, etc.

[Oberon]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

Seems to me that this particular problem has already been solved.

[Lurker]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

Since the price of the product he was seeking would drop by several orders of magnitute after legalization this perp wouldn't have needed to steal to pay for his habit.

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[Cymbaline]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

He wouldn't be forced into a life of crime to support his drug habit, and would therefore be a healthy, law-abiding, productive member of society. Probably a clarinet player for the San Francisco Philharmonic.

[Atlas Sneezed]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

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Nice straw-man rhetoric.

You see, those who advocate to end the WOD aren’t saying that it would solve all society’s problems. No, the point is that the WOD is ineffectual, expensive, and intrusive to the liberties of ordinary Americans.

How would this have been any worse had drugs not been criminalize?

[BJClinton]

So can the drug legalization drug warrior folks explain how this problem would have has been solved by their ‘solution’?

Just as stupid.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

Perhaps you could point out all the crimes being committed by alcohol or tobacco addicts to feed their habits.

The crime is committed because prohibition drives up the price.

Duh.

[El Gato]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

Legal drugs would be much cheaper than illegal ones. Very few people steal cars or their contents to buy beer. Even hard core alcoholics, aka street bums, seem to be able to find enough money, often by begging, for some legal rotgut.

[Gilbo_3]

without going round about too much, de-criminalization would lower drug costs and let this guy kill himself alot faster and cheaper requiring less robbery and shorter careers. my .02...

[kms61]

So can the drug legalization folks explain how this problem would have been solved by their ‘solution’?

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maybe it won’t, any more than ending prohibition has ended alcohol abuse. What it will do is eliminate the profit for organized crime, which takes over neighborhoods, corrupts police and local governments, and gives rise to transnational criminal organizations that destabilize governments and fund terrorism.