You turn the trade over to legit businessmen and you'll end up with cleaner and less potent substances (beer and wine sales comprise the largest volume of sales in liquor stores) and you'll also eliminate the associated gang violence.i don't think i've ever seen anybody claim that everybody would quit using drugs if they were legalized. the claim is that the addiction rate would be reduced (as opposed to eliminated).
Sure. Because we all know if you reduce the price and increase availibility of a commodity then there will be fewer buyers of it. Right?
Where do they teach this stuff???
BTW, are the drug laws the only thing stopping you from stuffing coke up your nose?
That's a fantasy of narco-libertarianism. The social dynamics of, say, crack are not the same as, say, scotch.