Death by all drugs? This is wrong!?

Question

Here are some annual figures of deaths from drugs in the uk.
solvents 47
ecstasy 50
herion 5000
alcohol 50000
tobacco 114000

The two legal drugs are the worst!

These figures also take into consideration related issues such accidents due to being under the influence. Its very hard to get a spectrum of different drugs as no one collects data on every drug?
My question is why can all drugs not be legal and the government tax them taking funds from crime organisations and putting the cash back into funding rehabilitation for dependant drug users?

Answer 1

The number of deaths may not look so bad if you provided information on deaths per 1000 users as more people drink and smoke than take the other drugs on your list.

Legalise it all, let it be governed and taxed.

Answer 2

By ending prohibition and regulating these substances, we can fix these problems. Street dealers would be put out of business by consumer choice: no drug user will choose expensive, unregulated street drugs over licensed, quality-assured brands. Law enforcement efforts can also be concentrated on preventing what unregulated sales still exist. Heroin addicts would still be addicts, but they would be safer from overdose and dangerous impurities, just as repeal of alcohol prohibition saved alcoholics from the blindness caused by methanol impurities.

The lesson of history is clear. Alcohol prohibition in the 1920's caused an explosion of crime and violence by heavily-armed gangs of bootleggers. Sending Al Capone to prison didn't stop bootlegging - it just created job opportunities for other gangsters. The same is true today. Our prisons are jammed with "drug war" prisoners - but the streets are more violent than ever.
After repeal of alcohol prohibition, murders and shootings declined for ten years in a row, because the bootleggers were out of business. We must repeal drug prohibition. As in the twenties, it does not stop the behavior it's meant to stop -- and causes many more additional problems. Anybody can understand that the way to put gangsters out of business is to take business away from the gangs. The most logical first step towards a safer society is to repeal drug prohibition -- and it is the essential reform, without which all others will fail.

Answer 3

Quite simply, you're wrong: the deaths of users gives no indication of the percentage of those using the drugs. Yes, alcohol-related deaths are now at a terrifying level, and the government should take action to restrict its use, not make it ever-more-available. Nevertheless the idea of allowing some crackhead to use his stuff then him going on a killing spree when he hallucinates is plain stupid. Please think for yourself when you consider statistics like these.

Answer 4

What a great idea. It would help the economy out and people will be taking clean drugs because of health and safety. But no, the government wouldn't do that. The majorities perception of drugs is a scourge that destroys people. (while their drinking there scotch and smoking there cigar)

Answer 5

and Marijuana isn't even on the list, but if you get caught with over an ounce in USA you are excluded from most decent paying jobs for the rest of your life and refused the right to vote, I don't think they should legalize drugs, but they should make alcohol and tobacco illegal

Answer 6

Legalization of prohibited drugs will mean more deaths.

Answer 7

so by that i got to stop smoking and do solvents ..don't like the sound of that much

Answer 8

yes it's wrong