I understand your arguments; but they don’t really address what I said. You made a tactical, “move to legalization slowly with MJ so people see how good it is” argument. I responded that argument doesn’t work very well to get conservatives on board because MJ legalization does little or nothing for the biggest plus of legalization for conservatives—hurting organized crime.
It’s not a plus for conservatives that cops can arrest people driving stoned or that stoners will die young.
So I go back to my original position: if drugs are to be legalized, the only way it makes sense is to go whole hog—MJ, C, H and Meth. And I mean whole hog—that means legalize sale and use; if you just legalize use, supply stays down and demand goes up which the druglords love.
That is the only way to have some good come out of legalization to balance the bad. Even then, as I said before, I waver but am not convinced.
You have a good way of deconstructing libertarian drug insanity.