>I'll add a second view where.
>All drugs should be legal is you are of voting age. If you want to smoke crack its up to you.
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>Back in the late 1980's, National Review magazine (William F. Buckley) ran a series of articles, acknowleding that the war on drugs was losing tons of money and was not working. There are certainly well-known "voices of conservatism" who have come out and said to legalize drugs.
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>My 2 cents is these advocates have a point - but until we actually would "get" to the stage the advocates describe (i.e. loss of economic incentive), things would get MUCH worse before getting better. It is the youth in particular I worry about.


It makes sense and it's proven that it works.
Dutch rates of drug use are lower than U.S. rates in EVERY category and all drugs are legal there. http://www.drugpolicy.org/global/drugpolicyby/westerneurop/thenetherlan/

Imagine the benefits to the American people if all these wasted resources spent on an impossible to win war on drugs was spent on public health and education. Picture our jails full of criminals that actually steal something or hurt someone. Nearly 5.1 million adults were on probation or parole at yearend 2008—the equivalent of about 1 in every 45 adults in the United States, and most of them for drugs!!! That, my fellow foxpro'ers, is NUTS!

John Harvey's belief that drug usage will go up if drugs were legalized is simply unfounded - and as matter of FACT the opposite has been PROVEN. Frankly I tend to think the only reason anyone would argue is because their job involves keeping an eye on those 1 in 45 Americans that were nailed for these victimless offenses.