Name: Anonymous 2006-06-18 19:09
Drugs should be legal.
If drugs were legalized, prices on drugs would then go down, as they would be mass produced in a legitimate setting, and marketted to the public much like many other product.
This is in stark contrast to what we have now, where they are illegal, driving the prices up. The drugs will always be getting into the country. Drugs are consistantly found within the United States by police. Clearly, they are making it in here somehow.
As the prices to the said drugs go up, poor people who are addicted to them usually resort to stealing, and other nefarious methods of attaining drugs, or money to buy drugs. Consequently, the crime rate goes up.
If drugs were legalized, the beneficial changes would be dramatic. Violent drug kingpins would be put out of business by legitimate corporate competition who would produce things cheaper, and more efficiently, delivering the lower prices and benefits to the poor and the other consumers.
Not only that, the drug war is very expensive. Keep in mind, that's your money they are spending.
Quote:
"In 1969, $65 million was spent by the Nixon administration on the drug war; in 1982 the Reagan administration spent $1.65 billion; in 2000 the Clinton administration spent more than $17.9 billion; and in 2002, the Bush administration spent more than $18.822 billion."
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/economi.htm
The War on Drugs is the next big failure. Why couldn't we learn from the attempted failure of alcohol prohibition?
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157es.html
Wouldn't you all rather the police spent their time hunting down real criminals, like robbers, murderers, and rapists, instead of harmless, pot smoking hippies and teenagers?
If drugs were legalized, prices on drugs would then go down, as they would be mass produced in a legitimate setting, and marketted to the public much like many other product.
This is in stark contrast to what we have now, where they are illegal, driving the prices up. The drugs will always be getting into the country. Drugs are consistantly found within the United States by police. Clearly, they are making it in here somehow.
As the prices to the said drugs go up, poor people who are addicted to them usually resort to stealing, and other nefarious methods of attaining drugs, or money to buy drugs. Consequently, the crime rate goes up.
If drugs were legalized, the beneficial changes would be dramatic. Violent drug kingpins would be put out of business by legitimate corporate competition who would produce things cheaper, and more efficiently, delivering the lower prices and benefits to the poor and the other consumers.
Not only that, the drug war is very expensive. Keep in mind, that's your money they are spending.
Quote:
"In 1969, $65 million was spent by the Nixon administration on the drug war; in 1982 the Reagan administration spent $1.65 billion; in 2000 the Clinton administration spent more than $17.9 billion; and in 2002, the Bush administration spent more than $18.822 billion."
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/economi.htm
The War on Drugs is the next big failure. Why couldn't we learn from the attempted failure of alcohol prohibition?
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157es.html
Wouldn't you all rather the police spent their time hunting down real criminals, like robbers, murderers, and rapists, instead of harmless, pot smoking hippies and teenagers?