The argument that drugs should be legal because alcohol is is a lot like saying that two wrongs make a right. Alcohol is bad enough. Do we need to compound the chemical abuse problem by adding yet another substance to be abused?
Taxing drugs is an immoral way of gathering revenue. It basically says the end justifies the means. The last thing I want to put in this government’s hands is more money.
And we can eliminate crime in the country entirely if we just make everything legal. I doubt anyone would want to LIVE in such a society but lawlessness would be nonexistent.
I guess you’ll have to put me in the category of FReepers who oppose legalization.
not an argument that jmacusa made. His point was that Prohibition failed, and drug prohibition is failing in the same ways for the same reasons.
Alcohol is bad enough.
Banning it was worse.
Do we need to compound the chemical abuse problem by adding yet another substance to be abused?
"Adding" is a red herring - marijuana is already being used and abused. What we should do is subtract criminal profits by legalizing it.
And we can eliminate crime in the country entirely if we just make everything legal.
Or we can take a deep bite out of criminal profits by legalizing the consensual acts of adults - such as marijuana growing, sale, purchase, and use - while retaining the laws against violations of rights.
Taxing alcohol achieves the same end.