I undertand the corruption and I’ll-gotten gains that come from the “war on drugs” but they should still be illegal for many reasons. So many criminal activities are linked to both procuring drugs (theft, robbery, gang activity, prostitution, etc...) and the immoral culture that feeds it without even factoring in fallout activity (automobile accidents, domestic assault, sexual assault brought on by lowered inhibitions, etc....) that common sense should tell a person of reasonable intelligence they are bad and contribute to the decay of a society.
Read my post 15. Prohibition does NOTHING to stop drug use.
How many people here don’t do drugs or can’t get them because of prohibition? I guarantee it’s NONE.
People don’t use them because it is their OWN choice. Anyone that wants drugs today can find anything they want within a few hours. “Stepping up” prohibition will only lead to more profits and “protected” dealers. Read my post 15.
I believe not only should they be legal, they should be distributed at clinics to those adults who desire them. For free, with the caveat that the user stays at the clinic to ingest.
That eliminates the need to commit crime to get said narcotics. No more drug gangs, no more violent crime associated with the drug gangs, much less theft and property crimes, (prostitution, well, that one is never going away.)
The government is not the parent. It has and always will be the duty of the parent to teach their children of the ills of society.