re: 40 years of history Show legalizing drugs will only make it worse

None of that shows that legalizing drugs will make it worse. It shows that legalizing drugs will not solve all the world's problems. No one ever said it would like you claim they did in your post. In order for you to say that it will make things worse, you need to compare it to current numbers to see what the effect would be. Here I'll help you with this very basic task that you should have done yourself if you were being honest.

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Fighting the illicit drug market now costs the Netherlands roughly $1 billion a year. If the dollar figure were adjusted to reflect the US population, it would be $19 billion — roughly equivalent to NASA's annual budget.

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The U.S. federal government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $500 per second. State and local governments spent at least another 25 billion dollars. Source: Jeffrey A. Miron & Kathrine Waldock: "The Budgetary Impact of Drug Prohibition," 2010.

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So if these projections and numbers are accurate, what you are saying is that saving $21 billion is making things worse.


And that's just the beginning of your ridiculous, baseless, argument that at no point makes a worthwhile point. It isn't worth my time to address the rest.