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Originally Posted by rubecube
The logic produced by the anti-legalization crowd, which basically comes down to "well it won't remove every problem, so we shouldn't do it" is assinine. The goal of government and society should be to reduce harm and increase quality of life in as many areas as possible. If legalizing cocaine and heroin results in a 30% decrease in gang violence, and a 20% decrease in incarceration rates, how is that a bad thing?
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Where is there any proof those would be the effects? Increased access to addictive highly drugs could result in a huge surge in other problems. Not only do you have to look at the potential crime produced by these new addicts, you also have to look at the inefficiency created by their increased medical costs and decreased working ability.
We have all sorts of people campaigning against smoking, yet we should just flood the market with cocaine, meth, and heroin?
The only way to cut out the black market is to make it readily available to everyone.