Is it fair to say that with the Illegal drug trade being a trillion dollar a year worldwide industry?

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that making it disappear/War on Drugs is pure bureaucratic fantasy?

Why isn't legalization a viable choice? Take out the 'criminal' element, tax it, whatever.

Just seems like an excuse to throw good people in jail.

Put aside reefer madness notions of drug dealers and users. There are good and bad people everywhere.

Answer 1

Hey. You're preaching to the choir. Legalize it, regulate it and tax it. You'd still get a better deal than buying it off the streets.

Besides, if you get rid of the war on drugs, you could pretty much buy down the national debt.

Answer 2

The only viable way to curd drug problems in America, is to work on supply not demand. We rallied for legalization of many drugs in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Though many of us came thru the era fine, we lost many peaceful people due to the drugs we rallied to legalize.
Legalizing liquor again after pohibition, took out the gangster, but Alcoholsm is the numer 3 killer in the U.S. behind Cancer and Heart disease. I would bet a large part of that is caused by drugs and alchol.
One out of 5 visits to Emergency Rooms in America is for legal drugs (Alcohol, Oxy, Vicodin, Xanax. Valium. ect.). So taking the criminal out of it, does not stop the problem. We found that out in the 60's and 70's.
We have to take the "Being Cool" out of dope. And it is not the Gov. or the schools sole task. They are a part, but so is home, peers, and the fact thatif there is no "Demand, Suply goes away". How to do this??? I wish I knew. But just because we have not found the solution, we can't give up.
I know each generation thinks they have the answer, and legalization seems like a good one. Remember I came from the true "Drug Culture" of the 60's. I believed 100% what I rallied for then, but if I could go back, and change the drug culture and see where it is today, I would...

Answer 3

The problem is that you will not legalize all drug this is not practical at all.

You would legalize heroin? There is no safe way to take it...essentially everyone on it becomes a junkie and is completely unproductive...So the idea is when we make it legal we limit its consumption...well you can't stop a crack, cocaine, or heroin junkie from getting their fix...alas the criminal element is still in business and now that they have a limited supply...their prices go up...the junkies get more desperiate...and they will kill more and steal more to get it.

The only way to stop drugs to to effectively hit the organizations at the top and we don't allow our law enforcement officers to do this based on our laws and international laws...not to mention the nations who produce it where the drug is the only source of their economy.

The way to end it...we would have to go to the nations who produce these drugs and destroy the fields and organizations there. Then we come here and eradicate all organizations who remain. This would not work obviously because it would be an international crisis to just destroy property of another soverign nation but as you see we will never win the war.

Answer 4

Quite frankly, the best way to END the illegal drug industry would be to legalize it. Not only could taxes be collected on it (in the billions of dollars each year) but the drugs produced would be much safer for consumption. Also, the price would plummet like a rock over the side of a cliff. This would pretty much kill any possible way of making a living selling drugs, etc.