Would legalization of drugs help America?

Question

Knowing that if America legalize drugs, all the druglords pockets would be empty or at least have a dent in them. Would it also be safer for those who are addicted to the drugs.

Answer 1

Great now people want this country to become a bunch of pot smoking , cocaine sniffing, heroin shooting , meth scientist.. Have you seen a user ?? up close and personal? Now imagine most of the country in the same boat.. Have you ever heard the saying "locks keep honest people honest"? Same thing legalize drugs and people who wouldn't normally try drugs will. What this country doesn't need is more addicts.

Answer 2

I actually think it might. Current policy is to mess with drug supply and demand in what I believe is the wrong way. They attempt to seize so much of the drug that supply is lower, and therefore the price is pushed up. There are two problems with this approach.

1. They never manage to seize as big a portion of the supply as they believe they have. No matter how many tons the DEA grabs, there's always more out there than anyone imagined.

2. Pushing the price up only makes those higher on the "drug food chain" richer. That is, if people are going to do drugs, they will beg, borrow, and steal ANYTHING to gain the means to do so. Price is not a consideration for a junkie.

It is my (admittedly amateur) opinion that the opposite approach might work better. Let the stuff flood the market, do everything possible to push the price DOWN, thereby not making the small amount of profit worth the risk for those higher up in the process. I think it's possibly that legalization and price ceilings like we have for grain might help accomplish this. Yes, that does sound very socialist.

In addition, legalization, low price ceilings, combined with very high taxes (much the way we treat cigarettes) would:

1. Lower profits for dealers and cartells
2. Keep the prices more prohibitively high (with the caveat mentioned above.
and
3. Put taxes on it to help in a USEFUL way...like instead of locking up some kid who likes to smoke weed.

Just my $0.02.

Answer 3

The government has their hand in it too, because poor people don't have planes, cargo ships and large fields to grow and harbor drugs on, the police only catch the little man while the big man is in the white house. So to answer your question YES but it's much bigger than that.

Answer 4

I'm not for the legalization of drugs. To expensive to regulate the tax dollars. Plus commercialize drug selling will innundate the already innudated American with another product to consume.

It's easier to let the police regulate and those who are smart, will get their drugs with no one knowing.

I do not want Phillip Morris profiting from legalized marijuana.

Answer 5

Absolutely. Look at other Countries that have legalized some narcotics and how they are doing in regards to crime, aids, and other social issues. Once the US can overcome it's "Moral Issues" then maybe it will learn and be a better place.

Answer 6

the authorities has their hand in it too, because undesirable people do not have planes, shipment ships and great fields to toughen and harbor drugs on, the police surely seize the little guy even as the large guy is contained in the white homestead. with the intention to respond to your question convinced besides the undeniable fact that that's a lot higher than that.

Answer 7

Legalizing Mary Jane would greatly help the economy with a fresh new influx of tax money.

Answer 8

Absolutely Not! It would just give the message to our young people that drug use is OK, hasn't this country
gone down the tubes far enough???

Answer 9

Well at least the $$ would be going back to the people.

Answer 10

i think it would cause America to have a different society. instead of civilized hard working americans living here. it would be crack heads and crazy people like me.