Didn’t say drug addiction was a good thing.
But everything you describe, drug profits, narco-countries, even krocodil and meth as cheap and easily made substitutes for less available and less toxic drugs, are the result of your drug laws.
You are the drug problem and the main obstacle to reducing it.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of deaths from prescription narcotics (LEGAL) increased fourfold over the past 10 years. This coincided with a fourfold increase in the number of prescriptions written for powerful painkillers. Legalization increases supply and when you increase supply, you increase the use and misuse of deadly drugs.
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Drug legalization policies have only benefitted corrupt governments and mafia.
Amsterdam's legalization experiment has backfired. With the legalization of marijuana came an increase in drug addictions and dependency followed by illegal drug trafficking, human trafficking and crime. After a rapid influx of organized crime, the Netherlands has announced that it will ban foreigners from the country's pot shops starting in 2013.
Despite the lies mafia, money laundering bankers, and cartels paying millions to deceive you, drug decriminalization in Portugal has also been a failure.
As of 2007, Portugal was still the country with the most cases of injected drug related AIDS, and it was the only European country to show a significant increase in homicides from 2001 to 2006.
"With 219 deaths by drug 'overdose' a year, Portugal has one of the worst records, reporting more than one death every two days. Along with Greece, Austria and Finland, Portugal is one of the countries that recorded an increase in drug overdose by over 30% in 2005," according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
As with the US CDC, the numbers are no longer being reported, or are changed for the convenience of policy.