Can anyone here give me a single reason that drugs should be illegal?

Question

"they are bad 4 u" is not what I am looking for here.

For those of you who bother to answer, will you take the very large social costs of making drugs illegal into consideration?

Are we better off with the drug war funneling billions of dollars to crime organizations and terrorists in the middle east?

Is it good for us to have all the gang wars over drug sales?

Is it good that the price of drugs is so elevated by its illegal status that drug users need to commit crime to support their habits?

Is it good for the United States that drugs are easier for kids to get than alcohol because drugs are not regulated and sold in stores the way drugs are?

Are we better off spending billions of dollars fighting drug laws than with billions of revenue from drug taxes?

Is it good that we have millions of people in jail who would otherwise not be?

But most of all, are drugs any harder to get than if they were legal? They aren't. How does making them illegal prevent these imaginary social problems then?

How is it specious to point out that the only problems that drugs cause for non-users stem from the fact that they are illegal?

Are kidnapping and murder victimless crimes?

How is it specious to point out that the only problems that drugs cause for non-users stem from the fact that they are illegal?

Are kidnapping and murder victimless crimes?

How is it specious to point out that the only problems that drugs cause for non-users stem from the fact that they are illegal?

Are kidnapping and murder victimless crimes?

Answer 1

Some, like pot, make no sense compared to what is legal. But some, like meth should stay illegal. I say meth, because it not only screws up the person taking it, but many people can be hurt or killed when they explode.

Answer 2

Yes I can. Certain substances have so many harmful effects and so few (if any) benefits that their use is a detriment to society at large.

Personally I don't care if you want to do things that are bad for you, but often the things you do while stoned are harmful to me and my dear ones. So, as a society, we're not going to let people get as out of control as they might like to get, and we're not letting them use every chemical it might occur to them to use to get that way.
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That's a bit of a specious argument you threw on there as an afterthought, isn't it? Drugs shouldn't be illegal because of the costs of dealing with illegal drugs? You could just as easily say kidnapping or murder shouldn't be illegal.
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>>How is it specious to point out that the only problems that drugs cause for non-users stem from the fact that they are illegal?<<

Your assertion is false.