that ol dog won't hunt. Legalizing drugs is not the answer to curing our national problem...how much did it help America to legalize booze......I read that there are over 100,000 deaths per year related to alcohol, whether it be disease, accidents, whatever. Add that to no tellng how many split families, wasted lives, lost worker production, etc.
Look around the country...where is crime the highest? I bet you will find it is where drugs, esp. crack, is the CHEAPEST...cheap available drugs does not insure less crime or disease. You would just have more drug related deaths, more drug related losses in worker productivity, more hospitals filled with drug emergencies, more college dropouts, more pregnant women producing drug addicted babies.
Legalization just removes incentive to stay away from drugs. There are a certain number of people that will always do drugs, but there are many more that will NOT use drugs to keep out of trouble and not have that ball and chain of a police record to drag around. |
