Hear Me Out Please - Drugs

Subject:  All drugs should be legal. 

Preface points.

• Recreational Drugs are not a good thing. They can be life destroyers.  I've seen some destroyed lives.
• People who are apt to do drugs are going to do them regardless if they're legal or illegal.
• There is evidence more people will do more drugs if they're illegal.
• All drugs were legal pre-1920's America and the country did not explode.  It found many ways to prosper. 
•  Portugal decriminalized all drugs in the 1990's and drug use and number of addicts has Declined considerably.
• People who I know who have worked the 'war on drugs' have stated that we could assign every addict a chaperone and save a lot of money. 
• The goal of the war on drugs  has been to reduce drug use especially with children.
• The longer the war of drugs has existed the worse the problem has gotten.
• We can no more eliminate drug use than we can eliminate:
•  alcohol use
• prosttution
• abortion
• a wide variety of extremely dangerous (and legal) activities performed by people on a continual bass.

My additional thoughts:

The fact that illegal drug cartels are supplying people in America with drugs means that the people doing the drugs are getting product of questionable quality all the way to product that will kill them instantly.

Having drugs manufactured by government sponsored and monitored companies would improve that greaty.

Having drugs available at state sponsored distribution/purchase points would:

1. improve the quality of the drugs on the street
2. remove the Drug Pushers
3. by removing the drug pushers - FAR FEWER YOUNG KIDS WOULD BE DOING DRUGS
1. This is the most important point. You know that if dealers were selling alcohol on the street a lot more young kids would be doing alcohol.  This is not a major problem.  Young kid drug use IS a major problem. Remove the street dealers and it is Much Harder for young kids to get or be motivated to drugs.
4. drugs could be handled, in all aspects of society, just like alcohol. There are people who have problems with it and people who don't. Once American manufacturers are the main suppliers of product, all sorts of positive things could evolve:
1. designer drugs could be manufactured to provide the same or better effect with less damage to the individual
2. they could be made less addictive (maybe not)
3. they'd be cheap enough, all of the related drug cartel crime would disappear in America
4. chemical markers could be included to allow identification of drivers on the highway
5. tons of law enforcement money would be saved and tons of money would be created as tax revenue - an unintended positive consequence.
5.  The war on drugs is counter-productive and getting more so by the minute
6. I Don't Care About Drug Users.  People destroy their lives (many drug users Actually Don't destroy their lives)  in many ways that are not only legal, but that as a society - We Celebrate !
1.  Boxing. Race Driving. Football. Skiing. etc,etc, 'to infinity and beyond' etc.
2. Come on folks.  Do you care about drug users to the point you want to save them form themselves ?  How about people who jump off the tops of mountains in flying squirrel suits then - why aren't you passionate about saving Them.  Far more of those people, by percentage per capita get killed than do drug users.

Main point: With street dealers eliminated through cheap supply to adults, the number of kids getting and using drugs will go down Massively. And that's what we're after right?

1. I'll appreciate your thoughts and won't give you a hard time if you disagree.  I expect everyone to disagree.
2. Nothing like this will Ever happen.  So it's all academic anyway.
3. obama is such a dweeb.