“To just make an activity legal, in no way makes our freedoms greater.”
Any time you take away government power, you are more free. No exceptions. No you won’t eliminate crime caused by people seeking money to buy drugs, but those crimes are already occurring. Will they occur more often if drugs are legalized? Colorado would suggest not.
To paraphrase Ben Franklin: Those who would trade liberty for security deserve, and will get, neither.
Au contraire.
Legal marijuana drawing homeless to Colorado
CBS/AP ^ | 12/24/2014 | /Doug Pensinger
Pot seen as reason for rise in Denver homeless
AP ^ | 7/26/2014 | Unattributed AP
With an increase in homelessness comes increases in crime, welfare and other social ills.
That is perhaps a fact, just as having no government does not ensure your freedom, is a fact. I say perhaps may be a fact, because it may add freedom to some while taking from others. So it really depends upon your point of reference. If it held true for all, then no one would be for it and government would have to resort to force to increase power. Believe me, I am for a much smaller government at all levels, but especially at the Federal level
However, I asked what your solution to the problem is. You seem to think the problem is only the WOD, which in reality was just the ineffective solution created to solve the ills drug usage inevitably create. While drugs affect the users, they sadly are not the only ones affected. It affects those who come into contact with them on a regular basis, wives, husbands, and their offspring. Furthermore it has an adverse affect on society at a whole. With increased costs for healthcare, property losses & damages, and increased violent crimes against persons ranging from battery, rape, to even murder.
BTW, the drug issue has nothing to do with freedom or even security. It is about the problems drugs create within society on the large scale, and the problems they create for the user, and the innocent people that are closest to them on the smaller scale.
If a drug user was the only person affected by its usage, then there would be no need for a solution. Let them ruin their own life. However, that is not the reality.