Some people are just to damn dumb for words to describe. Drunk driving harms other people, dying from an overdose only hurts the user, this includes an overdose of alcohol, which is called alcohol poisoning.
Prohibition should have taught us all that we make a problem worse when we outlaw substances. What a person chooses to put into their body is their business. I don't do drugs and I never will, but I do drink alcohol(which is a type of drug)and I spit on any government attempts to try to take that right to drink it away from me.
We need LESS government not more. Outlawing drugs has caused the culture we see now, it has made drugs very profitable and they will continue to be profitable, financing the gangs and illegal activities of drug loads. As far as confiscating a citizens property without due process, this is unconstitutional and should be stopped immediately. They have started confiscating cars in one state for smoking cigarettes bought across the line in another state and brought back into the home state, why? Because they have vilified cigs to the point where many people view them as worse than heroin or cocaine, so they figure they can get away with it, because it is "for the children"(or put your own slogan here)don't you know.
Legalizing drugs, as they use to be in this country, would cause no higher incident of drug use than we have now, it would eliminate it from being sold to children because the money would go out of it. Drug induced crime would virtually stop overnight. Believe it or not, I don't care, but if you continue in your present beliefs you need to seriously have something done about your brain, it has a leak somewhere.
What??? Drunk driving harms no one.
Granted, drunk driving MAY harm others. Then again, drug users MAY harm others, too.
"Prohibition should have taught us all that we make a problem worse when we outlaw substances."
And it should also have taught us that the way to end it is for the people to speak out against it. Based on the polls I've seen, only about 5% of the people want to legalize all drugs.
"Legalizing drugs, as they use to be in this country, would cause no higher incident of drug use than we have now"
I disagree. As would any rational person.
You really believe what you just wrote? That making drugs legal will magically end crime from drugs. You think addicts will quit stealing because now they have to get their drugs from a different source? You think kids won’t get drugs from people who can buy from another source.
You are really way off in this fantasy belief. Drug addiction hurts more than just the addict.
The current way may not be the best way but what you wrote is pure fantasy.