So then would that mean that if the current illegal drugs that we have we made legal, and taxed, that the tax would offset the negative qualities of illegal drugs?
Well most of the negative effects..what is the cost to children of smokers or drug users? I imagine if you throw out the amount of money being wasted in the WOSD's then legalizing drugs & taxing them could be a money maker for the government, not to mention a return of civil rights and liberty...
Yes, by a great margin. Hundreds of billions of dollars in savings in law enforcement, court, military, rehab & prison expenses, hundreds of thousands of non-productive gov't leeches in drug war-dependent 'jobs' being weaned off the gov't teat, big boost in tax receipts, lower availability of drugs for children, probably a decrease in the number of drug users as well as the end of the incalculable costs associated with the police-state built up around the war on some drugs.
Heck, just think of the benefits of not having to watch those idiotic gov't anti-drug propaganda commercials on tv!