it has long been my opinion that weed and the rest of them should all be made legal so that commerce in them can be regulated and taxed.
as it stands, the markets are controlled by criminals. you can see the resultant mayhem every day. what you don't see is the enormous revenue drain on the economy supporting the black marketeers on the one hand and the criminal justice system on the other.
there is no quality control over any of it. many people die from contaminated injectable drugs every year.
if these things were legal and sold through regulated venues, none of that would be a problem. the majority opinion says that legalizing is likely to cause a drop rather than an increase in the number of users. countries that have legalized hard drugs have reported reduced violent crime rates.
the other thing most people fail to notice is that in nearly every single country that our military has been deployed to over the past 50 years, their major agricultural product is one or more of those plants. all the libotards and the republithugs ever scream about is oil wars.
vietnam was an oil and dope war. afghanistan is about dope and minerals.
