I want to make sure I've got this right:
you're saying we should legalize crack cocaine? Heroin? PCP?
Do you really think fewer people would use these drugs, or more? Would it be better for there to be more crack addicts, junkies, and people roaming the streets on PCP?
Are you suggesting that alcohol is as addictive to most people as heroin or crack?
Yes.
Do you really think fewer people would use these drugs, or more?
I don't care. I think the cost of the war on drugs in terms of our liberties is too high. And I think the worst consequences associated with drug abuse stem mainly from the high cost of the drugs. Few people rob and steal to buy booze.
Are you suggesting that alcohol is as addictive to most people as heroin or crack?
I did not suggest it but I will. Alcohol affects the same centers of the brain and is every bit as addictive as heroin (which BTW the Bayer company used to sell in tablet form as a children's analgesic). Crack is a different story, but crack would never have existed if not for the prohibition on cocaine.
Do you realize teenagers are using far more dangerous substances than crack or PCP that they buy at the grocery store?
I don’t think you are seeing the bigger picture here.
Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol and it isn’t working for any other substance. Allowing the federal government to dictate substance possession is not even in the constitution.
For all the laws, prisons, cops, and stomping of rights, we still have 10% of the population smoking pot on a regular basis and teenage smoking hasn’t really changed.