| You could have a point, but I think that we tend to look at a lot of things with the attitude that the evil that we know is better than the evil that we don't. You could be absolutely correct in your assertions about the legalization and control of certain drugs, however, that action may cause other issues that we couldn't forsee.
Something interesting to note here is the idea of what "illegal drugs" are. For most people, they think of things like marijuana, cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, etc - street drugs. What most people don't tend to think as much about are things like Valium, cough syrup with codine, percocet, HGH (human growth hormone) and other muscle building "suppliments" aka steroids, and various other controlled pain killers like like morphine and other opiates. Most of these things are prescribed by doctors for treatment of various ailments, but that doesn't stop the BIG under the counter business in the trade and selling of prescription drugs.
Just thought I would toss that out there with the idea that even legalizing and controlling certain street drugs really isn't going to hurt the illegal drug business too much.
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