Legalize, Regulate, and Tax
Drugs are bad, and no one should do them. Same with alcohol, tobaco, and pickled pigs feet.
My father was a cocaine addict, and it had a devastating effect on my life when I was growing up. This was when President Reagan was in office, and cocaine was illegal. I've never done cocaine, never will, and I think that no one should do it. I also think that cocaine should be legal.
The federal, state, and local governments in this country pay a tremendous amount of money to ineffectively enforce the existing drug laws. Citizens pay a huge price in diminished liberty, a less efective criminal justice system, and less financially effective governments.
By legalizing drugs, our society could free up jail space so that sexual predators, like the one who allegedly abducted and murdered Dru Sjodin, can remain locked up for public safety. We would be safer. We could reallocate resources that are used in this unnecessary, and failed, War on Drugs , and to be used against violent criminals, and against the necessary War on Terror.
No one should do drugs, but that should be the choice of the individual, not the state.
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