But not the ONLY harm - me, post #20: "I've never denied the damage done by drug use - nor by alcohol use. The point is that banning alcohol or other drugs has not been shown to decrease that damage, but clearly does damage of its own."
and that if recreational drug usage were simply made legal, society would benefit.
The experience of Portugal with decriminalization (as discussed in the article) supports that statement.
Amsterdam is a hellhole. For thousands of individuals and for its society at large.
Baloney.
"In the Netherlands 9.5% of young adults (aged 15–34) consume soft drugs once a month, comparable to the level of Finland (8%), Latvia (9,7%) and Norway (9.6%) and less than in the UK (13.8%), Germany (11,9%), Czech Republic (19,3%), Denmark (13,3%), Spain (18.8%), France (16,7%), Slovakia (14,7%) and Italy (20,9%) but higher than in Bulgaria (4,4%), Sweden (4,8%), Poland (5,3%) or Greece (3,2%).[25][26] The monthly prevalence of drugs other than cannabis among young people (15-24) was 4% in 2004, that was above the average (3%) of 15 compared countries in EU. However, seemingly few transcend to becoming problem drug users (0.30%), well below the average (0.52%) of the same compared countries.[26]
"The reported number of deaths linked to the use of drugs in the Netherlands, as a proportion of the entire population, is together with Poland, France, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic the lowest of the EU.[27]"
25. "EMCDDA Annual Report 2009, ch 3 page 43". Emcdda.europa.eu. 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
26. "Microsoft Word - Swedish drug control FINAL_14feb_merged.doc" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-04-20.
27. "EMCDDA: Mortality due to drug-related deaths in European countries". Emcdda.europa.eu. 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands#Results_of_the_drug_policy
Go and move to Amsterdam, if you really believe it is such a paradise.
Anyone who has been comments on what a cesspool it is.
Yet you and the rest of the liberaltarians want to turn American into Americadam.
Leave and take your self-indulgent decadence with you.
The rest of us are trying to save a country that is falling into ruin thanks to the destruction of your buddies the 1960’s radicals who were radically self-centered.