Before all you ‘moral authoritarians’ go off the deep end, consider this.
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal:
Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
“...more than seven years have now elapsed since enactment of Portugal’s decriminalization system, there are ample data enabling its effects to be assessed.
...none of the nightmare scenarios touted by preenactment decriminalization opponents — from rampant increases in drug usage among the young to the transformation of Lisbon into a haven for “drug tourists” — has occurred.”
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080
Here’s the full 38 page report from the Cato Institute:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/greenwald_whitepaper.pdf
Sounds exactly like what happens when concealed carry laws are enacted.
Don't lose site of the fact that hundreds of thousands of Americans are making a living off drugs being illegal.
Look at all these people...
The police departments could be renamed the drug and medication enforcement departments.
Look at the tens of thousands of lawyers, court reporters, judges, jailers, corrections, parole agents, thousands in probation departments....
They're all making a living off drugs being illegal.
It's a huge industry in America....And a joke.