[William Terrell]

If you give people free recreational drugs and take away the profit from selling recreational drugs, these addicts will still continue to steal to support the lifestyle they want to have.

Do you believe that drug-using gang-bangers are going to lose their desire for your cars, car stereos, cash, gold chains, other jewelry, tv's, vcr's and everything else, because you legalized recreational narcotics?

They still have to steal to party, to eat, to afford tatoos and body piercings. That stuff doesn't come cheap, you know?

So, if drugs are illegal, punks steal to pay the high prices of drugs and if they're legal, punks will steal to pay for other things.

Are you saying that only punks on drugs want to "party, to eat, to afford tatoos and body piercings"? If so, I have news for you: punks stole to get these and similar things before the drug scene.

[4Freedom]

"...punks stole to get these and similar things before the drug scene."

And they'll continue to steal, MORE to get them even after recreational narcotics are legalized. Just like crime increased in The Netherlands.

Thanks for helping me make my point.