Legalization would also reduce the problem of gangs – many of which finance their activities with drug sales, and battle each other to gain monopolies over geographic areas. Innocent people get shot in the crossfire and in drive-by shootings. It’s the Prohibition era all over again.
Would legalization and lower prices lead to more drug users? Possibly. But those who did use drugs would probably have fewer problems than drug users do today, because the drug companies would have to compete on the basis of safety – just as the makers of cars and airplanes do now.
Drug warriors point to crack babies, or celebrity drug victims, or to some other tragedy caused by drugs. These events are very real. But they weren’t caused by drug legalization; they occurred with drugs outlawed. So they shouldn’t be considered warnings against legalization unless there’s evidence that these events would increase if drugs were legalized. And I’ve seen no such evidence.
If you want to stop drug use – and reduce the problems that come with drugs – there has to be a better way than asking the government to do it. This country may not be able to survive another 35 years of the War on Drugs.
What We Can Do About the Drug Problem continued...
    
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