Is it time to legalize pot and reduce the death rate of tobacco and alcohol?

[Rokcet Scientist]

Is it time to legalize pot and reduce the death rate of tobacco and alcohol?

Tobacco kills more people than all other psychotropic drugs combined, excluding alcohol.

Our government policy should be to legalize the more forgiving drugs and make the less forgiving drugs illegal.

Please, and just switch demons? If you make something illegal you criminalize it. And then the whole merry-go-round starts up again. First the traficantes, then the cops to chase 'm, then the judiciary to try them, then the prison system to jail them. And you end up with exactly the same Kafkaesque situation: "the land of the free" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> (Wikipedia).



And the US taxpayer footing the bill for it all.

So don't make any drug illegal (you'd have to seriously consider banning cafeine, sugar, chocolate, and fats then too...). Instead educate people on their proper uses, effects, and dangers. Just like you teach your kids how to cross the street and generally negotiate traffic. After a couple years they'll do it unsupervised anyway. So they had better bloody well know how to deal with that. You can't be around forever to watch out for them.
Same with people and drugs. All drugs!

Oh, do control minors' access to drugs! Just like we do with alcohol now. But a little more effectively please.
But once they turn 18 they're on their own. Like with alcohol, sex, and credit cards now. So they had better be prepared to deal with it.

Addiction research and government reports for the last 100 years have exonerated pot and cleared it’s reputation as the safest and most forgiving alternative for psychotropic drug use.

The last vote in California for or against the legalization of pot was defeated because of funding by the tobacco and alcohol lobby. In real terms, they were buying permission to kill the maximum number of humans with government collusion.

How much money per human life did alcohol and tobacco pay our government officials?

Is it time to do the moral thing and save the lives we can by making the less harmful psychotropic drugs legal?

What is "less harmful"? There you go slippin' and slidin' again. And who's to decide what is what?

A century ago cocaine was freely sold at druggists to fight tooth aches! Your own great-grandparents probably used it! All 8 of them!
In the twenties all that stuff was criminalized. Including alcohol. Prohibition.
Organised crime has been with us ever since.

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And now I light my blunt again!