Yes, legalize all drugs. The idea that somehow this would destroy society and that everyone would start doing drugs is moronic. Alcohol and tobacco are legal, and I use niether. If weed, cocaine, and heroine were legal tomorrow, I wouldn't use them either. And I imagine that would be the case with most people.

 

It would make society trashy. It would ruin all order that is in line. YES people would be more willing to try LEGAL marijuana versus an illegal drug. Thats completely ignorant to think that their usage rate would not go up. Completely. And not only that, their usage rate per person would too go up, because there would be no fear of getting caught. Further more, addictive drugs like cocaine and heroine would become cheaper, and people would become massively addicted. Death rates would go up off those drugs alone, along with crime and murder rates (yes, a high man is much more likely to do something stupid like pull a gun to somebody, and pull the trigger) as well as accident rates in cars. If over 50% of fatalities in cars include alcohol (yes, that is a true statistic) and certain drugs have many similar affects (i.e. loss of judgment or motor skills) then who is to say that wouldn't raise the amount to 75% included drugs? (alcohol is a depressant, it is the same thing as a drug)

 

That is completely ignorant to believe that more people wouldn't do it, simply because YOU wouldn't.

 

Do you understand how addictive cigarettes are? Did you miss the "tobacco free florida" adds all season? Do you know how addictive alcohol is? Do you know what alcoholism is? What an alcoholic is? Sure, there will be people who wont do it anyways, but now you have more people getting away with it because it is legal, and then people who want to try it. If cigarettes were illegal... I GUARANTEE YOU less than 75% of the people who currently smoke would be smoking now. Now mix that in with marijuana, Im sure the rates would easily multiply over 10 times the amount of current marijuana smokers.

You can sit here and say this would happen and that would happen but I'd rather deal in reality. Look at comparable real examples. Look at the failure of alcohol prohibition. You think illegalizing tobacco would get rid of 75% of smokers?!? What then are you smoking? Seriously, if that was realistic, why did prohibition fail? Because the same thing always happens and would happen if cigarettes became illegal - people who want them would just buy them for really high prices from gangsters.

 

You can't guarantee any of this stuff, and if you actually start basing your ideas on this subject in reality rather than fantasies about what would happen, maybe you'll look at how drugs have "destroyed" places like Amsterdam where they are freely available and yet the violent crime rate is a fraction of what it is here in the US. Now you can argue other factors skew the results, but if you truly believe that "illicit" drug use is the greatest evil in society and that legalizing them would plunge us into chaos then your beliefs are simply inconsistent with documented reality.

 

Furthermore, the problem is that if we legitimately accept the notion that government has the power to decide what we can and cannot put into our bodies (for our own good of course), where does it end? I can't wait to see what a prohibition on non-organic foods would do to food prices for the lower and middle class. Maybe the government could even force us all to go vegetarian? Or maybe, just maybe, I should have the right to decide what I want to put in my body, whether or not someone else thinks its good for me or not.

BTW: Do you think the government has the right to tell us that we have to wear our seat belts when driving; if so, why?

I'll answer, even though I don't think this one is for me.

 

Not really, but if one were to argue for it, you could at least make a point that since governments provide the roads and license drivers, they can set such requirements. If you were driving on a privately owned road, I think the answer would be no.