On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 13:27:25 +0000 (UTC), Doug Miller
Difference is that legalization will lower the price, thus making these outcomes less likely,
and less drastic.

Drug addiction has a direct effect on the brain an behaviour. Do you
actually believe that an initially lower cost will change that. All it
will do is to create more drug addicts and more problems for society.
And, you're fooling yourself if you think a lower cost will lessen
anything. Just like cigarettes, a black market will grow feed the
increased need for drugs.

Drug addiction destroys homes, lives and people.
No argument there at all.

So why on earth would you advocate free market drugs. Do you think for
even one minute that destroyed homes, lives and people won't have a
cost effect on the population?

Are you able to have a rational discussion without personally insulting those who disagree
with you?

Not when I see such absolutely ridiculous statements to the effect of
legalizing drugs.

Are you actually going to sit there and tell me that crystal meth
users are going to act rationally if crystal meth becomes legal.


Drug prohibition, like alcohol prohibition, does not and cannot work: in a free market, if there
is a demand for a product or service, someone will provide a supply. The ONLY way to
stop the drug problem is to address the demand side, by regarding it as a public health
problem instead of a criminal justice problem.

Maybe not, but legalizing drugs as a means to control it is absolutely
absurd. Find another method to control the drug market.

Again, I say that drug addiction has a direct effect on brains and
behaviour. The horrendous increase in drug addicts due to easy access
would only result in social catastrophe.