Legalize pot and generate tax revenue from it.

Other harder drugs, IMO the emphasis should be on rehabbing those addicted rather than punishing them.

In general I think huge jail sentences for people using drugs needs to go. Jail should be for violent criminals who physically have assaulted other people and are a danger to society, not for some guy who got caught carrying a couple of grams of weed.

Making drugs illegal has done nothing but fill up prisons. It never stopped me from smoking weed.

Yes, of course we should end this "war" on drugs! Our prisons are overpopulated and one of the big reasons for that is the illegal usage/selling of drugs. If we legalize it we can then utilize smart regulation tactics to help users more easily overcome their addiction and promote a healthier lifestyle for them. In the meantime we can make money off it through the legal selling and taxing of it. This would help the incarceration rate as well as making the livelihoods of those that use a lot better and safer, they won't have to revert to shady means in order to get their next fix and possibly overdose as well as use drugs that could be laced with something potentially more dangerous. It helps the economy, them, and the incarceration rates.

"All research on successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased
and law enforcement decreased, while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences."

S.O.A.D.

The legislation created five Schedules (classifications), with varying qualifications for a substance to be included in each. Two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, determine which substances are added to or removed from the various schedules, although the statute passed by Congress created the initial listing. Congress has sometimes scheduled other substances through legislation such as the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Prevention Act of 2000, which placed gamma hydroxybutyrate in Schedule I. Classification decisions are required to be made on criteria including potential for abuse (an undefined term),[2][3] currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and international treaties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act

So it would be the DEA, FDA and Congress.

Just like the iraq war, trillion's of dollars spend for nothing. I'm not a fan of weed, but the cost of trying to keep it off the street is just far too much for it to be worth. It being legalized could save 10s of billions of dollars every year. Though then again, I'm not american, so...

In fact, it could do the exact opposite, as it's clearly started doing in Washington and Colorado.  The potential tax windfall could fund education and prevention programs if it's legalized countrywide.  I can appreciate your view, and I basically look at it the same way I do cigarettes or alcohol.  Neither are particularly useful to society but trying to ban them is a fools errand, and far more expensive in just about every way.

What do you mean? I'm supportive of legalizing it. For what its worth, better for someone to be taking weed than taking heroin. And like I said, the billions of dollars that could be saved from it. That money could be used to reduce the deficit, or be put back in other parts of the economy.