Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?

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My personal reason for being against legalization of drugs is because I don't want to live in a world with junkies. Imagine how bad poor neighborhoods are now. Now imagine them with everyone out of their mind on drugs. How scary would it be if we lived in a world with violent psychotic people with impaired cognitive ability?

So, in order and by color:

You are already living in a word with junkies. After 40+ years of this drug war shit it should be patently obvious that it creates junkies and does not prevent them.

You know, once you legalize this shit and remove the profit incentive for the smugglers the reverse may happen. The druggies are fine once they are doped up. The gunfire comes from the turf wars by the sellers not the users.

But only for "drugs" which the government has determined are illegal, eh? What about alcohol and prescription drugs? Do the negative impacts of those not count because Pfizer makes hefty campaign "contributions" (a/k/a bribes)?

You're coming across as very naive. In addition to the above you are failing to factor in the increase in police intrusion and the decimation of our civil rights for this so-called "drug war" which is a total flop in any case. Read through the "Fucking Cops" thread for example after example of what has really happened in this country.