As I have said many times on this thread, if you think the street level drug dealers are going to go out and get real jobs because you legalize all drugs, then you're nuts.
People will always find new, cheap ways to get high and criminals will commit profitable crimes that have a low risk/reward ratio. Let's say all drugs are legalized. The price will go up. Then there will be markets for black market legalized drugs or new, cheaper illegal drugs.
If you wanna equate booze with marijuana I'll give you that. Weed has been decriminalized. But you lose me when you say that the end of prohibition would look the same as if you legalized heroin, crack, and meth.
I didn't say they would.
But lets say I am a drug user. Why would I continue to purchase a perfectly legal product from a kid on a street corner when I can just pop into the Gas n Sip on the way home for what I want?
Why are there no Al Capones around today bootlegging? Did he and his minions continue what they were doing? Or did they find other jobs, both legit and illegal?
From a freedom and liberty stand point, along with a constitutional stand point, there is no inherent power granted to the US Government to make it illegal for me to put anything into my body I want to.
If my actions or activity do not deprive another of their life, liberty, or property through fraud or force, then it should be legal.
“It is impossible to prove a negative.”
No, it’s not. Take a class on logic, please.