[RonF]

Actually, I'm in favor of legalization. And you're quite right, legalization would deal with deaths based on impurities, and would help deal with those based on infection, etc.

However, it won't solve everything. Alcohol has been legal for decades, and it's quality is stringently controlled. Yet, people fall into a bottle and die every day. They'll fall into a syringe or a pill bottle just as easily, or more easily. Give people a ready way to avoid reality, and there'll be those who fall for it.

In fact, they don't even have to get that much benefit from it. You don't get much of a high from nicotine, yet yearly it slaughters it's 10,000's and 100,000's in the U.S. alone.

Drug use kills people. It's undeniable. Legalizing drugs will not change that, it just changes who gets killed, and how many.