[marktwain]

you will render most Americans legally defenseless against their murders, thefts and other schemes.

Why? Lot less incentive for them to steal, because drugs would be cheap.

Impaired crimes would still be crimes.

The "war on some drugs" has created huge problems.

Has it helped?

I know people who are alive because they were forced to dry out in prison.

So, it has helped some drug addicts.

Others? Not so much.

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"Lot less incentive for them to steal, because drugs would be cheap."

Sure.. Just like cigarettes... :(

[familyop]

"Why? Lot less incentive for them to steal, because drugs would be cheap."

No drug will be that cheap.

There was a young man--one evil piece of crap--using meth while working in a local restaurant, as nearly all of the other employees and manager were. He did so for nearly a couple of years. I wonder how many customers were poisoned.

A few weeks ago, he did the meth zombie shuffle in a Walmart store. He's no longer working. He's completely government and community (thefts, etc.) supported, as are millions of others like him.

Upgrade your policy formula to include mandatory, random, final solution hot shots (no peeking by anyone), and I might agree with it. But the secret, private, hidden hot shots must be mandated before the rest of the policy, or there will be no trust.

Or maybe concentration camps with 24/7 public web cams on every inch of them for public education. They can have all of the drugs they want and more in those places. Government wouldn't need to pay for much more than the walls and extra front end loaders and dump trucks.

Or open zombie season.