You're funny.
I want to know if you are intelligent enough to comprehend this chart.
See that beginning section? That's where we were in 1770.
Clearly the underlying model doesn't apply - free markets don't take centuries to respond to demand.
Again, the available evidence is that U.S. opium addiction was low and declining when it was legal. Pooh-poohing that evidence is not a substitute for better evidence nor does it win you the argument.
And what evidence do you have that it was declining? That same web link that said it was skyrocketing?
Yes, the DEA found some data but wasn't bright enough to correctly interpret it - much like how none of your charts and figures, though presumably correct, actually support your conclusions.
Not the same argument - the word "concentrate" apparently escaped you.
Yes, all those drug addicts
There's no evidence that the number grew as a result of Needle Park.
would have been a lot more beneficial spread evenly throughout the populace.
Make that "less detrimental" and you're right.
You're funny.