United States: Should we end the war on Drugs?

[mornelithe]

barneystinson69 said:

mornelithe said:

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.

???  I wasn't saying you weren't supportive of it.  I meant not only would it save billions, it'd probably create billions more in taxable revenue, well, it's not probable, it actually would just going by Colorado and Washingtons data.  Sorry wasn't arguing with you :)