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"Hard liquor (which I've never heard of anyone making at home) is legal and made by the private sector but regulated; I advocate the same approach for other manufactured drugs."

Never been to Tennessee I suppose.Good White Lightning down in those parts.Not too difficult to make.

Well,guess what-I agree with your position that there would be positive aspects to legalizing all drugs.The black marketeers would lose their hold on the illicit drug market,that would be one benefit.But I would not agree with legalizing hard drugs to the point that it made access to them easy and readily availible to everyone.Giving addicts,who are already addicted cheap drugs(this is what the UK did some time ago) does make sense,it prevents them from having to break into my house and steal my computer to maintain their habit.This has happened to me before,I awoke at 8:30 on a saturday morning to find a junkie across the room from me and my wife in our bedroom.With an 8 inch Bowie knife down his pants,which the police discovered when they busted him down the street.Believe me,I am well aware of the need to stop the crime associated with narcotics.But I cannot see any wisdom in making drugs available to anyone who wants to shoot up.It is obvious there is a huge desire for illicit drugs here in the US. Some sort of handle needs to be kept on the problem. A "free for all", with narcotics being sold in state run stores would be a death sentence for millions of irresponsible americans. There's no shortage of idiots out there,I'm sure you would agree with that.Sure you could say they are responsible for their own actions,but reality is they are not.

A "free for all", with narcotics being sold in state run stores would be a death sentence for millions of irresponsible americans. There's no shortage of idiots out there

I know of no evidence that millions of people want to use heroin or crack; can you provide any such evidence?

And how is it moral or just to impose all the costs (monetary and otherwise) of the War On Some Drugs on responsible citizens in order to protect irresponsible ones from their own irresponsibility?