Originally Posted by ismokeblunts

you're relying on people who are already addicted though. you're not going to talk the average man into working 12 hour days for pay in crack cocaine. it's not like you're going to build a useful workforce out of crackheads and junkies. do you really want to hire a bunch of fucking crackheads to work for you for rocks? or would you sooner hire a clean man for the same cost who just wants a paycheck? that's a flawed argument against legalization. legalizing the drugs will not make the drug problem any worse off than it is already. anyone who wants to do some drugs is going to do them, and it isn't hard to find them if you want them.

the key is in prevention and rehabilitation. if a problem has no direct solution which can be achieved by fighting it, the best option is to control the result of the problem. so why is this not the stance taken towards the drug problem? illegalizing substances creates a massive underground industry, the majority of criminal activity and violent crimes committed worldwide is centered around this underground.

it's like trying to topple the tube problem. how do you do it? you eliminate the income stream. but in both cases, no one is prepared to do that, because someone with a certain degree of power over the situation is still profiting from the current state of it.

regulate the use of these drugs and their abuse just the same way you would with alcohol. deal with the result of the problem with more force, and save the energy, manpower, and taxpayer's money that is being sunk into this never ending pit known as the drug war and you will see better results as a whole.