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To: Brumar89 who wrote (648768)	3/24/2012 5:26:28 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583429

>> Sometimes the legal system in effect rescues people from the harm drug users do to the people around them. That's true, and on rare occasions, rescues them from their own actions -- some would die were it not for being jailed. But most of the drug offenders who go through the criminal justice system get out of jail and then have little alternative at all but to pursue the big, fast profits of selling drugs (since a person who has been to jail on drug charges, no matter how minor, becomes permanently unemployable). We take away their most fundamental right -- the right to work and create a permanent ward of the state. My conclusions have been arrived at by weighing the positive versus the negative, not so much as looking at things ideologically or idealistically. In real life, if you outlaw drugs, you're going to make the black market for them much more profitable which will attract more dealers. There is one other really serious unfortunate consequence of it -- when you outlaw a substance, what you do is force users to move to more potent substances. This happened with alcohol, for example, in prohibition -- when beer was outlawed you had far more people drinking liquor. Why? Because more concentrated versions of the substances (which minimize risk of dealers getting caught) will predominate. A great example of this is when the crackdown on Cocaine happened, we created an epidemic of a more addictive substance, Crack. Or marijuana/hashish, etc.