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They would have been SAFER and LEGAL. I think if you are going to start doing drugs because they are legal, you should be required to wear a toe-tag.

The drugs which killed her were legal. Valium and alcohol have done quite a few people without even drowning in the bathtub.

Gerard, what the drug warriors don't (and can't) explain is this:

If the (re-)legalization of drugs would mean the downfall of the Republic, then how was it that this country went from being a fifth-rate agricultural backwater in 1776 to a world power of the first rank by 1901, a century and a quarter in which any drug you can name was lawful to possess in any amount for any purpose?

It's only with the criminalization of intoxicants that we've had criminal empires spawned, the likes of which we've never seen before, and seen rivers of blood in our streets.

OOPS! I was talking about Prohibition. The present-day War on (Some) Drugs is ever so much more successful!

Hale Adams
Pikesville, People's Demcratic Republic of Maryland

Well, she obviously had a hard time getting illegal drugs, right? Meanwhile we can't buy Sudafed without a picture ID, and if you buy "too much" you're likely to have your door busted down at 3:00AM by a swarm of police with machine guns, in body armor and balaclavas. Or your neighbor is, because the cops have this tendency to get the address wrong.

Prohibition is not the business of government.

Conservative American Hallucinations #2: Winning the Drug War.

Legalize drugs now. We've got to find a way to overcome this epidemic of productivity and motivation rampaging through the land.

Thankfully we have the government to save us from destructive behavior. Smarter people save me from smoking meth, injecting heroin…alcoholism, cigarettes…child porn…welfare dependency…murder…fatty foods…improperly inflated tires…buying a house I can’t afford…

Tread on me!

Question grasshopppers:

Would legalizing drugs end the illegal drug trade?

I await your answers.

Hale Adams, In 1776, they didn't have much in the way of drugs; not much to make illegal. Hell they didn't even have carbolic for surgery infections.

Don Rodrigo,
The DEA, all the laws prohibiting some drugs, and all the people in prison haven't ended the illegal drug trade.
Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is a pretty good definition of insanity.
What we have now is the trade in illegal drugs co-existing with the industry of drug law enforcement - I wonder which generates the most income.
Actually, if the drugs were not illegal, there would be no illegal drug trade - duh.

Ok, Don R, I'll take a shot. There are millions of alcoholics who pass on the stuff all day every day. Those that don't are a big problem. But I'm thinking that drug legalization will never grow the drug problem to where it matches the cost being paid right now.

The first drug prohibition began in 1906 because the average addict was a white middle-aged housewife, and there were indeed quite a few drinking the elixir. A few years later, the zealots had momentum and moved up to alcohol. All in all, it is not a good plan to defend. Now we are probably stuck with it forever. The 20th century was a very good one for government.

Once you arm government with great powers and responsibilities, there are no limits to government taking more, and the citizen assuming less. We end with government becoming incompetent through its massive scope, and the public atrophied--extra bonus points for government. They fail to end the flow of drugs, enrich the worst possible people, fund useless cures, and pay welfare benefits to addicts. This is not a cure, it is a disease.

Actually, if the drugs were not illegal, there would be no illegal drug trade - duh.

Absolutely wrong. Because of the perverse way government works, "legalization" will come with so many caveats and regulations that a majority of illicit drug users, who are NOT addicts by the way, will turn to illegal sources.

Those of you who answered my query: you flunked because you failed to take into account the [current] nature of American governnance. I apologize if I appear obnoxious and abrasive in this response, as that is not my intent, but I prefer to deal in absolute realities. Also: I'm NOT saying that we shouldn't have legalization. I am simply stating that we have to be prepared for the almost certain unintended consequences once the legislation has wound its way through the alimentary canal of Congress. It won't be prety and will smell really bad.

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