The DEA could intercept 90% of the stuff, and the profit return would still be high enough that it wouldn't halt (and demand would go up, thanks to addiction, so higher prices!)

I understand legalizing cannabis but am not too comfortable with legalized COCAINE.

It's about what functions. The "War on Drugs" is an absolute debacle, no matter what drug you're talking about. The rationales behind it are flimsy, the execution is awful and lopsided, the penalties are either laughable or insane - inversely proportional to the wealth of the convicted, no less! - and it leads to more crime in every case.

Not comfortable with cocaine being legalized? That's cool, I'm uncomfortable with the notion of how many men and women in the Latin American and US police forces die annually trying to halt the flow of the stuff - and failing to achieve that goal.

Legalize it ALL. Tax it and regulate it. Addicts are going to get their drugs, no matter what. Why do the rest of us have to pay such a high price in order to control THEIR addictions?

I'm sure we both agreed that smoking tobacco should not be encouraged, yet we do not threaten tobacco users with arrest and imprisonment. Now consider dangerous sports, such as mountain climbing. - The death rate on Mount Everest is about one in ten of those who make it successfully, which is a vastly higher mortality rate than just about any drug used at present in a recreational manner.

Maybe you believe that it's immoral to use a certain drug, but if you also wish such acts to become/remain criminalized then surely you also have to accept responsibility for the dire unintended consequences of such folly, when these certain plants/concoctions/drugs are then sold only by criminals and terrorists; when the huge black-market profits are used to bribe and threaten law enforcement officials when the availability and usage rates tend to go up, not down; when our prisons become filled to capacity with easily replaced vendors and smugglers - this list is actually endless!

Add to all that the fact that law enforcement and rehabilitation are mutually exclusive. Would alcoholics seek help for their illness if doing so were tantamount to confessing to criminal activity? Likewise, would putting every incorrigible alcoholic behind bars and saddling them with criminal records prove cost-effective? I think most of us already know the answer.

Signal Mountain, TN (PRWEB) April 21, 2010

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