Should the US legalize drugs?

[bardicverse]

Nirvana_Nut85 said:

bardicverse said:
My brief thoughts, but before that, I will say that drug addicts are a waste of society - not targeting the stoners, but the cokeheads, heroin addicts etc. Absolutely useless people through and through -Ive dealt with a lot of people in this category.

Now - Legalize weed, but make it adult only, like alcohol, since the effects are pretty much like booze and smoking combined.

Everything else should stay illegal as it ruins lives. Send police task forces to kill off drug dealers, keeping the trash away from kids and keeping the projects in ruins.

 

 I completely agree with most of your post, except that I believe all drugs should be decriminalized. I don't believe that any government has a right to tell someone what he or she can or can't do to their body despite the effects that will happen.

Also, all the war on drugs has done for most countries is caused even more crime than anything. Plus were wasting ridiculous amounts of are hard earned taxes to send people to jail for petty crimes like possession which is absolutely stupid.

The issue here is that besides weed, drugs can make people do things to other people. Ive known people assaulted and forcibly injected by heroin addicts, had a student who was mugged by a coke addict for money. The harder stuff should be kept away. Weed only destroys the individual if they let it, but things like coke and heroin destroy socities.