Recreational Drug Use Legalization

[TheMercenary]

We have a black market here and across both borders in legal drugs as well.

[Happy Monkey]

Neither of these:

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I don't buy it. The same thugs who can't afford anything other than their FUBU hoodie and $120 nikes will still be ripping off the guy who has the cash to buy the drugs legally. This continues to be an issue that is not simplified by discussing legalization. Even when opium dens were legal and readily available the drug use ruined many lives.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

We have a black market here and across both borders in legal drugs as well.

will support a war zone:

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

... not to mention the fact that you can't hire a person for $17,000 a year and expect him to love life walking in a neighborhood war zone the size of many small US towns.

Despite the end of prohibition, people still make their own alcohol, and in some situations they still do so illegally, but there is no longer a war between moonshiners and cops. Commercially available alcohol is safer, and in many (most?) cases better and cheaper than anything you'd buy out of a pickup.


It sounds like you're letting the lack of the perfect be the enemy of the good. The fact that all crime and poverty won't end with the drug war doesn't mean that drastically reducing it is too simplistic. Drastically reducing is a good goal in itself.