People need to be left alone to live or die by their own devices. It is the natural state, and CANNOT be regulated away, any more than you can legislate away the laws of capitalism. People will trade their labor for a reward, people will die, it is up to us to get out of their way. It is also up to us to put the dying day off for as long as possible, to collect as much loot as we can, and to give to those who need DEPENDING ON OUR CONSCIENCE....not govts.
Yeah, well you end all the government programs that are related to drug use before you legalize the drugs. Otherwise you are just trading one government bureaucracy for another. We already have drug court in the county where I live, which means that users get rehab and dealers get short sentences. Recently, two big heroin dealers got two years and time off for rehab. Every time a druggie goes to court for a crime that is related to drugs, they get off with light sentences and rehab. A druggie who went on a killing spree, through two counties and killed a police officer, went to the state hospital, even though the doctors at the hospital say that he does not fit the the definition of legally insane. You end all the restorative justice toward druggies and then come back and ask to legalize drugs.