Originally posted by sigma:
Okay, those statistics are all well and good, I know them quite well, but they do nothing to prove the point that I was contesting -- that legalizing drugs will make them cheaper and drive dealers out of the business.


I wasn't talking about legalizing, I was talking about de-criminalizing. There is a difference. Leagalizing is like you can go to your local drug store and pick up some heroin and weed. De-criminalizing is lessening the sentences and harshness of being caught with these drugs. For example, a man gets caught with heroin. Instead of throwing him in prison which won't help anyway, we put him in a treatment program. We try to make them better. Locking these people up isn't going to do anything.

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