The crime will still be there irregardless if it's legal or not as the drug users will lie, cheat, steal and kill to get their fix...............
I'm sorry, I don't believe I want to drive down the interstate looking at fields of weed instead of corn...............
Legalizing pot is not being done due to moral reasons. It is being done to get tax revenues out of it.
Do you really want our country to be like those countries whose primary cash crop is drugs.........After Pot, do you want it to include Poppy fields.......................
We should not correct the drug problem by making it legal to produce. That is surrendering to the problem.
Yes we should because making it illegal has not helped the problem one iota. That money that we use to incarcerate and prosecute drugs as well as the taxes from it can be used to fund rehab ceters, deug education and much more that actually DOES address the problem.
The idea that the crime would not lessen is also misplaced. The drugies will still commit whatever crimes they would have otherwise but those are not the crimes that make up the real problem. It is the dealers and traffickers that commit the major crimes – the murders and the like – to get the product to the street. It is a hard fact that such would be removed and we have very real evidence in prohibition to prove what happens.
How so many can completely ignore history and the lessons that it teaches us is beyond me. Drug laws do NOTHING what so ever to prevent drug abuse. I have lived in a drug user’s home and experienced the fallout from drug abuse. The one thing that I can say for certain is that the law never did us a single favor. It provided MUCH more harm than help.
I don’t really expect you to agree – for most this is simply a moral/emotional issue but I would implore you to look at this with an open mind as to how to actually dealt with drug abuse rather than try and punish such. The latter has been nothing short of a colossal failure for decades. It is high time we try another tactic, one way more focused on recognition, treatment, education and support for the family members stuck with abusers.