[cloudmountain]

Supply demand equilibrium can occur in different ways. On the supply side, if Americans were able to grow small amounts for their personal consumption, the problem would also be greatly diminished.
"Supply demand equilibrium"? What the hell is that? There will be NO equilibrium for illegal drugs. They are illegal for a reason.
I don't want to end up having to pay for rehab OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER for the same morons who just can't deal with reality in the real world.

It's the illegality that drives up price and induces criminal behavior. When surveys show that something like 1/3 of the population has indulged, it's clear that the supply hasn't been controlled, but instead it's cost curve has been pushed up.
OF COURSE it is! Illegal drugs end up COSTING us the taxpayers way too much money. I DON'T want to support junkies who spend their lives getting high, crashing, getting sick-better, with VERY EXPENSIVE rehab and therapy...and then do it all over again with the same STUPID cycle again and again and again.

Parallel arguments can be made about our experience with alcohol prohibition.
Oh heavens, not that same tired old argument.
Heroin, meth and such are addictive, which means people get SICK when they don't get their widdle fixie-poo. They need extremely expensive, time-consuming therapy that usually doesn't work because drug addicts are MORONS. AND, the kicker is: they DON'T WANT to get better for good, just enough so that they can get high again, not just "un-sick."

When alcoholics stop drinking they DON'T get sick, they just get better. It's like quitting tobacco...coughs stop. Lung cancer may come anyway but at least life and quality of life can/may be extended.

People can be so STUPID. I am tired of paying for STUPID adults who haven't got a SHRED of backbone. It's not MY fault that their lives are so screwed up. Our society offers help again and again and again and again. WHEN do those MORONS start taking responsibility for themselves and start taking the consequences of their stupidity BY THEMSELVES?
I'm willing to be my brother's keeper, but "brother" has to give reality a try! If they refuse to try to get better, maybe they'll do better with rehab in the pokey.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Well, it’s clear we aren’t going to come to a meeting of the minds on this issue.

[Hepsabeth]

Have you never heard of delirium tremens? Alcohol is physically addictive and when alcoholics quit drinking they not only get sick, they can die from the withdrawal.

[Lurker]

“There will be NO equilibrium for illegal drugs”.

Liberals always deny and defy reality.