If illegal drugs were made legal, how will we get enough people to fill our prisons?Think of all the job loss!

Question

The drug war creates so many jobs and keeps so many poor people off the streets by locking them up. --creates lots of money....So, what would we do with all our prisons and the government job loss if we can't lock up millions of people for non-violent drug offenses?

Selling drugs creates jobs for the poor that the country can't provide, catching them doing it creates jobs for government.

Answer 1

Your right it isnt about crime its about money and all political .The police exaggerate the problems and dangers from it to keep it ilegal and to keep those dollars coming in .Not to mention all the money and property they steal from our citizens in the name of justice .Then the state or feds rob them for anything they have left .Then the states recieve money from feds for every prisoner that walks through the door .Then the prisoners do labor for the state and federal government .Who sells much of the work for normal prices and pays the workers 30 cents an hour(legalized slavery) .Of course rent ,restitution and payment on fines comes off the top of that money .Then of course they get the rest to buy stuff to live on ( After taxes of course ).Make phone calls home, at inflated prices about 4 times the normal rate .I dont know where that one post said free education .Any one who is a felon cant even get a loan for schooling because of a government law .Then the costs of keeping a person in prison $30,000 to $80,000 surely that cant be inflated .Since you never here about how much they make off prisoners labor .All the clothes are made by prisom industries they get fed deer meat and grow their own vegetables .You can enrole in the best universities for $10,000 a year . Seems like a university should cost more than a prison .If it is such a financial loss ,why would all these private companies be wanting to open them .Then you have the drug war .80 percent of the fatalities many young kids are from unqualified people trying to make it .Never knowing the proper dosage ,because every one that sells its differant .Never knowing what your buying or what is it .I cant understand why there would be fatalities under those conditions That makes alot more sense than letting people who are going to do it anyway .By it from a pharmacy so it hasnt got all the cut impurities and who knows what else in it to harm people ,and you could monitor how much some one was doing to know when it was at unsafe level .Plus if it was made and sold by a pharmacy I dont think people would buy junk drugs off the street for unreal prices that werent safe to do .That would probably illiminate all the big money feeding the gangs and violence asociated with it .If they couldnt even give it away .If you take the food from a mean dog it doesnt take long for him to get weak and die .It hasn't anything too do with public health or safety its about money and politics
Many police are now publicly saying its wrong and makes victims out of our citizens .They have an organization called L.E.A.P (Law enforcement against prohibition) I'm sure you can look it up on the net

Answer 2

Prostitution is banned because the law wants to enforce good morals. It's still generally believed that promiscuity is bad, though prostitution is well known as the world's oldest profession. I think it would be best to regulate the sex trade and ensure that prostitutes are STD free and not controlled and beaten by pimps. But there'd always be a problem with a black-market of cheaper sex with unregistered whores, so the same problem may exist in the future that exists today. Regarding drugs, marijuana is the only thing that should be legalized. It's a natural herb, sure it has intoxicating effects and is slightly addictive, but no more so than alcohol. It could be regulated and majorly taxed. The other drugs like coke, heroin, meth, those should all stay illegal. They are super addictive, and kills people when they OD. At the very least, mandatory sentencing rules on drugs should be reconsidered. You have child molesters and murderers getting out before people on their first drug conviction...that doesn't seem right. And is a huge reason why the jails are so overcrowded now.

Answer 3

If illegal drugs were made legal, the same folks would sell them. Cops would go back to catching the criminals we all agree ARE criminals, including more than a few drug users who happen to commit real crimes. I don't think we'd lose too many prisons, we'd just spread the prisoners out to the space-per-prisoner ratio they were supposed to have in the first place.
I am not in favor of legalized drugs. I think that this issue, as with several others, the Western nations simply need to be reminded why they were made illegal in the first place.

Answer 4

The Prison system is really just welfare with prison bars. Prisoner get free food, free shelter, free health care, free dental, jobs, free education, free clothes, and more. Heck prison for poor prisoners is a lot better than living in the projects or the street so even if drugs became legal they'd probably find a new crime to get themselves back into jail which is the most secure thing they've ever had in their lives. Solve the poverty in the US, not the drug problems, and you'll have a lot less criminals in jail.

Answer 5

We'd save billions in taxes and those losing jobs would find better ones. We'd still need prisons for murderers and rapists. Any government job losses would also be a plus to the economy.

The money we save could be used for helping addicts rather than for imprisoning them.

Answer 6

If marijuana was decrimalized, the prison capacity would drop. And the US would be saving millions of tax dollars to prevent marijuana drug usage. So Then the Us could spend the tax dollars they didnt spend(around 25,000$) per prisoner on other things that need to be delt with. Go to www.norml.org

Answer 7

Check out this site. It cost $10-$14BILLION dollars a year to fight marijuana prohibition.
Think of all the jobs it would create in the farming, harvesting, manufactoring, transporting and selling. Plus hemp can be used for so many more things than just to smoke. Google the word HEMP.

Answer 8

That's right, and one of the biggest lobby's against legalazation is the prison guard union.
You know....more criminals, more prisons, more guards.
Check out this link. It's an ex-police chief who formed a movement to legalize drugs: http://www.leap.cc/

Answer 9

lolz sweetie an average prisoner costs around $80,000 a year to the government and all that money is comming from tax payer pockets. So it would be good for us if there r less prisoners in prisons. :)

Answer 10

well think of what illegal drugs causes to. lets break it down. causes people to steal from their families, kills them, and makes them kill others. thats the highlights of the illegal drug useage. many more to list, however, the prisons are so full now that its impossible to keep them all in for this and that. i think that ilegal drugs should stay just that. illegal. not just a moral thing, it is also a human things. changes them so much for the worse.