Originally Posted by
nain rouge
I think legalizing many street drugs would be a bold step, and really, worth trying. Right now, it's too easy for impoverished people that view the odds as stacked against them to turn to selling drugs. With just a modicum of actual work, you're suddenly making good money.
If we legalized drugs, what would change? Would we suddenly become a nation of addicts? Somehow, I doubt it. And I think legalizing drugs would actually make it harder for teenagers to get ahold of such substances. I know that in high school, it was way easier to get marijuana [[for example) than alcohol. I mean, you could eventually get alcohol if you really wanted it, but you had to pull a lot more strings.
Ending prohibition took the bite out of the mafia. Could legalizing drugs take the bite out of street gangs?