Libertarians support tough laws that punish "real" criminals. We only fight against laws that imprison people for consensual behavior that harms no-one.
And by the way, crime is up in Los Angeles over the last year. So I don't know if thatdamages your argument or not, but it is a reality.
>>I would like to see at least monthly education in all schools for staying away from drugs. Starting in early grade school.<<
It has already been tried in most school districts over that last 20 years. It is called the DARE program. Studies have shown that either it does no good at all or it makes things slightly worse. The DARE program originated in Los Angeles by the way.
>>There is also a cause and effect issue surrounding what you want. On FR we've had many articles by people who want to legalize illegal drugs and say the effect of legalization would be to grow drug addicts. So that would be contranry to what you want also.<<
I think you have some things mixed up here. If we go back to when alcohol was made legal, we can see that a very large number of people began using alcohol again, who were not using it during prohibition. But these were law abiding people. When law abiding people use alcohol the vast majority (over 90%) do not have problems with it.
Most anti-WOD people will go along with the idea that a lot of responsible law abiding people will begin using some of these drugs "reponsibly". We will not see a big upswing in addictions, as the people who are prone to addiction do not let the law stand in their way anyway.
In addition, a lot of law abiding people are currently pushed into using alcohol, when that is probably the most dangerous drug known. Many of these people will drift away from alcohol and begin using pot. This will be better for everyone.
So on the actual direct effect of the drugs themselves, I think the situation will not change much. The illegal drugs are actually much less harmful than alcohol. I would add here that deaths due to tainted drugs will plummet, and most heroin related deaths are of this type.
The real benefits of ending the drug war will be improved respect for the law, improved respect for the police, reduced police and court corruption, reduced funding of the worst scum in the world (terror groups included) and on and on.
Freedom works, prohibition does not.
The can of worms get more and more involved in legalization.
Every economists article about the leagalizing of all drugs say it will grow addicts greaty based on other places where it has come to pass.
It is evil. Let it die out. Don't use illegal drugs.