There are good arguments on both sides pf this issue.
One thing you learn in some of the addiction counselling courses I'm taking is the percentage of addicts is primarily steady. The only increases and decreases you see are in good and bad economic times. (However, we now have legal prescription drugs for any ailment you can dream of and websites offering you sales of percocets, darvocets, vicadin, oxys, anything you want or need with no prescription necessary. (Maybe Limbaugh should have dealt with them instead of Dr. shopping and his cleaning staff.)
So legalizing probably won't affect the rates of addiction. It could however affect trafiic and work place accidents. But so can percs and darvs and vikes and all are "legal". The only difference between legal and illegal drugs is that legal drugs have BIG BIG Corporations behind them (Parke-Davis, Merck, Bayer, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer and so on.). While illegal drugs the profits mainly benefit underground groups that will push drugs to kids and buy and sell guns with the profits. Ask the Bloods and Crips.
Personally, it is a matter of choice. Being an addict (compulsive gambler five years clean march 20th), I can honestly say I didn't become one because gambling was legal. I became one because just like 95.5% of all addicts I wanted an escape and to be numb. Until we can figure out how we can get people to be able to deal with life, there will always be drugs and there will always be addiction. Therefore you may as well legalize it and put the money into government and out of theunderworld.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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