Maybe you could do your own research before you post an opinion. It’s not my job to inform you but you might want to inform yourself before you come out n favor of billions down a police-state rathole, destruction of the Constitution, a paramilitary police force, the growths of the alphabet soup agencies and filling the prisons with a lot of non-violent “felons” Do you really think this is working?
Just a thought.
It's working far better than the alternative.
As I pointed out before, you cannot eliminate an activity by making it legal. You only increase it. If legalizing an illegal and immoral activity were all that is necessary to stop it, then why are there over a million abortions per year since it has been legalized? When, prior to legalization, there were --maybe-- a few thousand per year?
It is a fact that no criminal activity has ever been eliminated by making it criminal. However, the rate of criminal behavior is drastically decreased through the criminal justice system (both by deterrence, and by keeping those prone to criminality off the streets so they can't commit crimes).
Also, I reject the notion that drug abusers are non-violent. There is a very strong correlation between drug abuse and domestic violence--while it may not be accurate to say that the drug abuse causes the violence, it is clear that the two are linked. There is also the violence that drug abusers commit to obtain drug money; we cannot expect this kind of crime to disappear just because buying and using drugs is made legal. Unless, that is, we decide to start handing out drugs paid for by taxpayers--which does not seem like a very appealing option--and whether it would work to decrease the incidence of crimes motivated by the prospect of quick monetary gain is debatable.
There are a lot of issues tied up with the push to legalize drugs, while really simplistic arguments are used to justify it. Since drug abuse leads to unemployability and no one is willing to tell addicts that since they got themselves into that situation, they can darn well face the consequences, we have to consider: how much more welfare can we support? How much more unemployment? While federal agencies are being cut back because so much is being spent on welfare, is it really wise to implement policies that further increase the level of dependency on the government for survival and decrease the funding for necessary government functions (like border security, military, etc.)? At what point does the system collapse?