[MrLeRoy]

Most of the "drug possession" convictions are plea bargains for other crimes by a court overwhelmed by other crimes.

Provide evidence for your claim.

Legalizing drugs will "normalize" the behavior, making it epidemic.

Was post-Prohibition alcohol use "epidemically" larger than its use during Prohibition?

The way out of this is to make drugs unacceptable. Getting high or drunk is unacceptable.

Is getting drunk on the legal drug alcohol now regarded as acceptable? If not, why would the legality of other drugs make them seem acceptable? If so, do you support banning alcohol to make it unacceptable?

[MrLeRoy]

Wod_list ping

[vin-one]

Mr. L, why even bother, LD is famous for her hit and runs.
never debates,just puts in a post, and buh bye,
her argument is flawed, talking about gangs, and pushers, and pimps,
pushers would not be needed, because you could buy safe drugs, at the local ABC Store,
and the criminal elements of drug dealing would vanish, if drugs were legalized, regulated, and controlled.

[steve-b]

Was post-Prohibition alcohol use "epidemically" larger than its use during Prohibition?

Every attempt to measure the matter at the time when the evidence was most available (i.e. the years immediately following repeal of Prohibition I) shows that drinking actually went down (for one thing, once alcohol could again be shipped without the need for concealment, the market shifted from high-proof booze to low-proof beer and wine).

During the 1980s, advocates of Prohibition II seem to have undertaken a concerted effort to sweep this inconvenient fact down the memory hole.