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You'll spend that much and more dealing with the enforcement aspects I already specified, and the cost of ruined lives, careers, and families. You'll need entire new treatment programs and hospitals to deal with this stuff.
And other drugs will be next.
I want to know why George Soros donated $1M to get pot legal, in the interest of staying on topic. He can do whatever he wants with his money. What's in this for him.
As a matter of fact, no you will not spend more on enforcement. Enforcement costs will DECREASE with legalization and destruction of families will also DECREASE as will ALL negative effects that come with pot. The fact is that the true problem with drugs comes in their illegal status and the crime that pops up around illegal items. Legalizing it will allow the problem to be placed in the open and addressed as well as brining in revenue that can fund education and rehabilitation efforts. Putting people in prison for drug abuse ENCOURAGES further drug abuse, is the actual cause of destroyed families and creates carrier criminals out of normal people that need rehab not hard prison time. Here is an earlier post that I addressed this subject on.
History is NOT on your side. Prohibition FAILED. Legalization WORKED. Now tell me, why can you not see that illegalizing a substance is ineffective when it is PROVEN IN HISTORY THAT IT IS.As a matter of fact, I have dealt with a family revenged by meth (my mother and step father) as well as dealing with my father's addiction to crack cocaine. Your damn right it should be legal and your damn right it should be in the open. There is history here to consider - prohibition was a complete failure and legalizing alcohol has allowed us to actually deal with the problem rather than cover it up as well as eliminating the criminal syndicates that illegal substances cause. The war on drugs has had an IDENTICAL outcome as prohibition. Substances were forced underground creating criminal syndicates and covering up the problem or substance abuse. If such substances were in the open they could be TAXED to bring in revenue to fund new treatments, treatment centers and education/outreach campaigns. Instead that funding is moved to criminal elements funding murder and robbery in its place. There is NOTHING good about illegalizing those substances as covering up the problem DOES NOT MAKE IT GO AWAY. Further, many of the problems we are experiencing on the border today are a DIRECT result of that criminal underground smuggling pot and other drugs across the border. Hundreds of Americans are murdered in cold blood for getting in the way of those cartels each year not to mention the added danger to police. Take away the profit and incentive for that smuggling and suddenly that problem vanishes entirely. Face it - THE WAR ON DRUGS HAS FAILED. PERIOD. It is time to fess up and face this issue like real men and women instead of a bunch of scared children. People are GOING to get high no matter what you do or what you make illegal. Facing the problem has far more benefits than trying to change our basic nature and hiding the issue.We are all losers when the Government follows a failed policy like the interdictive drug laws, sometimes referred to rhetorically as a war. Yes it is a failure that keeps on failing(but yet the tax dollars keep flowing). The behavior that the law were meant to curb are less harmful than the results of the laws themselves.
You've obviously never dealt with a family ravaged by meth. Noway in hell that shit should EVER be legal. PERIOD.