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Deterioration can mean many things. Going from a nice neighborhood to a trashpit, is one. Crime does follow poverty so therefore hard drug use will attract crime. Or do you think that crackheads are great employees?

A few posts ago you weren't afraid of crime related to prostitution or drug use. Now you seem back on it. Which is it?

Fact is, my town, your town, anyone's town will be worse off, in every way, by legalizing such things. If Libertarians realize that there is evil in men, they must realize that it is these very things that breed that evil.

For one thing, you're confusing cause and effect. I'd argue that things don't breed evil; evil people create things non-evil people don't like and can't live with.

However, if you should be so unlucky to be in a state that wished to legalize these things, the fed should have no power to stop them. These are state, county, city, and community matters.

Agreed.

A few posts ago you weren't afraid of crime related to prostitution or drug use.

I am not concerned so much with crime as a DIRECT result. IOW I don't think that a person that just hired a prostitute will do a drive-by on my house. My concern is in the overall deterioration.

I'd argue that things don't breed evil

Then please explain the consistency within the similar lifestyles that FOLLOWS hard drug usage.

Agreed

This is why I still see myself as leaning more toward the Libertarian side on some issues. I may adamantly disagree that these things should be legalized, but that is only limited to MY state and community. Constitutionally, all states can freely legalize these things, and I somewhat wish that one state would, just so we could have a tangible case study to reference.