Originally posted by Breacher:
You can't "end" the war on drugs by simply surrendering every street corner to a newly licensed narcotics wholesaler.
You have a culture of people who want nothing else but to lounge about high on dope and make trouble for others.
Not only hat, but the demand the convenience of cheap imported dope so they have to work and steal less to stay high.
Since there are already licensed narcotics Dealers in every City and Town e.g. Pharmacists and Liquor Store Owners, whey would there be any on the street corners.
Liquor Stores could just add the newly legal narcotics to the ones they already sell.
There is already a culture of people who want nothing else then to lounge about high on drugs and make trouble for others, and they are called Alcoholics and Drunks. So the users of Coke etc would just be added to that number.
And if if the war on drugs ended and they were made legal then according to what I read a long time ago Drugs would cost about the same as Aspirin. So Little Old Ladies would not have to worry very much about their Social Security Money being stolen by some scum sucker addict.
So I see ending the war on drugs as a Win, Win, Win situation.
One last thing there are a lot of things that can be done to
Persuade People to not use drugs that are not currently being done and that would have a high probability of success and these things would not be a ban on possession or use anymore then Drunk Driving Laws are a ban on use of Alcohol.
So even though I disagree with airforce on somethings I agree with him fully on
Ending The War On Drugs with the provision that laws on possession and use would also be ended.