A murder in Alaska isn't likely to affect you or your family, but you probably don't want to legalize murder there.
I support drug decriminalization because I believe that it will result in less vice in society, overall.
It’s actually a biblical position that a problem with people abusing something is best addressed directly at the attitudes and acts of abuse, not the thing abused. Vice (as virtue) is spiritual. Alcoholics Anonymous and its follow-on groups demonstrated that to people who had forgotten to take the bible seriously.
Of course.
Probably MOST of the “drug problem” is the fact that drugs are illegal, creating a black market that generates most of the crime, much of which is violent. Everything from people stealing things, breaking into homes, home invasions, gang battles, and even corrupt cops. The list goes on and on.
This isn’t even considering the billions spent by governments at all levels to manage the largely self inflicted problem. An entire ‘industry’, bureaucracies, and livelihoods have grown around it. Police, lawyers, prisons, government agencies, and it has been used as a vehicle to shred many of our Constitutional rights.
How in the hell could any “Conservative” possibly support this?
And what leads you to believe this? I would suggest it is the endless stream of libertarians saying so, and not any real world concrete data.
The example of the Sitzplatz in Zurich doesn't support such a conclusion. The experience with China and Opium does not support such a conclusion. Where in history do you know of a place that legalization worked?