re: Should all drugs be legal?

It’s not getting any worse is it?

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Alcohol is regulated and manufacturing, distribution and consumption is controlled.

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Only for businesses. You can cook up for home consumption all you want.

And it's legal.

Alcohol is way overregulated which is why I hate the "tax and regulate" argument.

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It’s not getting any worse is it?

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not getting any better either despite spending 1.5 trillion

Maybe reallocate that money to treatment and I bet that would start to decrease. And by treatment, I mean actual treatment of the problem, the issue with most treatment centers is that they only treat the symptom of the problem which is the drug use, they never actually treat the actual problem. Thats why so many people relapse.

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but not cocaine, meth or heroin.

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If coke were legal or you could get legal amphetamines like Adderall OTC, meth use would plummet.

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The majority of people in jail for drug charges(real time not a few weeks) are drug dealers, not users. Most drug dealers aren’t addicts

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The majority of inmates in prison are drug addicts.

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In 1980 there were 40,900 people incarcerated for drug offenses; by 2013, this number increased to 489,000. Considering that the vast majority of drug arrests are for possession, the criminal justice system is left to address high levels of substance abuse and addiction. Approximately half of prison and jail inmates meet DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse or dependence, and significant percentages of state and federal prisoners committed the act they are incarcerated for while under the influence of drugs. Data from a national study in five major American cities shows that at the time of arrest, 63% to 83% of arrestees had drugs in their system, with marijuana and cocaine being the most common. Between 2000 and 2013, the percentage of arrestees with opiates in their system increased, with a couple of cities seeing significant increases in opiate presence, as well as methamphetamines. Substance abuse and addiction have other significant public health implications; CDC data estimates that 7.6% of new HIV diagnoses between 2008 and 2011 involved transmission via injection drug use, and sharing needles and other equipment used to inject drugs is the most common form of Hepatitis C transmission. Substance abuse may be compounded by co-occurring mental illness, and many begin to use substances to cope with mental illness or physical pain.

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1) Let me ask a question. Why do grown people want to legislate what other grown people do when it doesn’t affect them personally?

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Because eventually it does effect everyone personally. Mental illness creates homeless people, drugs can exacerbate the number of homeless people, homeless people exist in public spaces.

Are you trying to say we shouldn't care what happens in public spaces?

Should we care if people are shooting up drugs on the sidewalk and leaving their needles behind?

We have to draw a line somewhere.

Legalizing more drugs....yes...all drugs? Not practical

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Should we also allow people to make pipe bombs or pressure cooker bombs since all those materials exist?

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Strawman. Try again.

Unless you want to try and argue that pipe bombs can be used recreationally. I'd like to see that

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Let me ask a question. Why do grown people want to legislate what other grown people do when it doesn’t affect them personally?

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Maybe because we dont want to pay for your frick ups.

To me that is the biggest issue. If your drug use doesnt affect me go for it....but when it leads to other criminal acts or spending tax payer money for your problem....then it becomes our problem.

It is idiotic that we put people in jail for ingesting a substance in the comfort of their own home.