Should the US legalize drugs?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

@everybody saying "what good would come from legalizing heroin?":

Heroin would be cheaper. This is good for addicts. They will be less likely to run out of every cent they have and start mugging people. This reduces drug-related violent crime. That's good for everybody.

Heroin will be cleaner and with consistent purity. This is good for addicts because the majority of overdoses comes from switching dosages, which comes from switching dealers (who had shit with different purity levels), which comes from one dealer getting arrested, because heroin is illegal. The illegality of it is what kills people. No heroin addict just wakes up one day and decides "Hey, today I feel like doubling my dosage, even though I know it will kill me." There will be less heroin-related deaths. That's good for everybody.

Fewer people in jail, less red tape clogging up our court systems, no need for drug dealers or drug cartels, less crime, fewer deaths, lower taxes, and higher tax revenue for education/rehab/whatever.

@bardicverse, I'm not saying we should give legal jobs to drugdealers. We would make drugdealers obsolete and replace them with legal dispensaries, the same way we have marijuana clinics/dispensaries/cafes/whatever. If anybody still tried to deal drugs, we'd throw them in jail. We would make the idea of somebody in an alley selling heroin just as stupid as somebody in an alley selling milk or beer or candy. You'd assume they put something weird in it, alert the police, and buy whatever you want at a legal dispensary instead. And no, not at Wal-Mart.

And I wasn't trying to pull a "but the kids" move with my cars statement. I also said "or old ladies." I was just trying to say they run over everybody at random. I didn't mean to sidetrack us there.


@everybody, watch the video Jackson50 posted. I watched it when he posted it in an old thread, and it's really great.