re: Casualty in the War on Drugs

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so you don't know the cons to legalizing drugs or are you saying there won't be any?

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There have been probably a dozen links justifying ending drug prohibition posted. I'll just repost (again) the main one.

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It’s costing us way too much money trying to enforce prohibition. One of the main reasons Prohibition was repealed was because it was an unenforceable policy. Today, half of what we spend on law enforcement and the criminal justice system is for drug law enforcement. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. And despite all these efforts, drugs are cheaper and purer than ever before. Instead of wasting money on incarceration and a bloated prison industrial complex, we should invest in treatment and rehabilitation, which costs far less than imprisonment and actually attempts to help people. We need to find the best policy that reduces the harms of drug use.

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We've spent trillions in hard earned tax dollars to stop it, people are still using drugs at the same rate, or higher, and that money can be better spent on something that actually works.

No one actually believes the drug war is working. The advantage to you is you dont' have to support nearly as many non violent offenders in prison, their dependents while they are in prison, and when they get out...because they have a record.

Ending the drug war also promotes individual liberty and scales down the power of law enforcement. Big gov types may not care about liberty and small govt though..