All drugs of all classifications should be legal.

I'll number by quotes you're refuting. 1.No it's not. The role of government is to create infrastructure such as roads, schools, banks, public transport, and other things. NOT to regulate our bodies. You should be shocked by the concept. The founders wanted government OUT. The English were smothering us with unfair taxation and unfair representation. We had no say on our daily lives at all. The framers wanted the government to be left out of everything. I'm a political science major. Don't even ATTEMPT to debate this with me. 99% of political scientists will tell you it's against the framers intent. The constitution itself is written on hemp. Drugs were legal until the 20th century until they became "immoral". 2. My personal hates of a drug do not make it moral or immoral. Further, it's not my place to tell people what they can or can't do. I have my personal feelings as do you. But I'd never restrict someone from using a drug unless they planned to do something stupid like murder. 3.Marijuana alone would bring in at least 10 billion dollars per year. If not more. There is such huge demand for a drug that causes no hangover and has not caused a single death in the history of its usage. There is marketability. There is already a large quantity in the unites states, it wouldn't be hard to tax them as is and drug use is already rampant. The police don't catch everyone, and most high schoolers these days admit to trying at least one drug. I'm not advocating heavy use, I'm advocating the education of the populace about the affects of all drugs, when they turn 18, let them make their own decision. Let them use drugs in the privacy of their own home. Punish them for driving under the influence and selling to minors very harshly. Drugs are capable of being used positively with the right education. Tring Ecstasy once won't kill you. But continual use will eventually catch up to you. Let people weigh these decisions themselves. With proper drug education from an early age it's more than possible. Use the increased taxation to pay for health care. (I don't want to get into our economics and health care system that is already messed up enough and a completely different topic) The price of drugs won't go up. The reason they are the price they are now is because of the illegal means they have to go through. When you buy pot, you're paying the dealers for the risk of jail time that they take. 100$ of marijuana in South Africa will buy you a pound (about 3000$ in the NW united states). Because it's not illegal there. Making something illegal drives prices up. Examine also the prohibition of alcohol, prices sky rocketed, but people still got booze at speakeasys. For your point 8. What? 10. According to? 11. According to? 12.Understandable, but if an employee of mine comes to work under the influence of drugs I would issue a reprimand and immediately fire him. People need to learn personal responsibility. 4.Quote me studies that drugs are "causing harm" and a "negative" influence on society. Wait. Don't bother. Examine Europe. They are superior to us in almost every regard and most of them have decriminalized marijuana possession. Some have even legalized. The people are happy, more intelligent than us, have more social services, and better quality of life. 5.So why spend money on a drug war that doesn't work? We could have improved our schools, created free health care, free college education, and stopped the spread of aids WORLD WIDE with the money leftover from the drug war from the last 30-40 years. I'm advocating educating the populace of the risks. I'm advocating the idea that drugs are to be used responsibly. I am advocating that people be smart about using them. Don't DUI. Don't go to school/work high. If they do, they suffer the consequences. This is a basic concept. I have no idea why you have so little faith in it. People will fail at life if they don't learn responsibility, and the people that keep fucking up? They deserve to be thrown out on the streets. It's called survival of the fittest. But again, getting off point. Erowid is consistent. It links to studies that are not on .org sites. Which is a stupid argument. A .org is no more reputable than a .com or a .gov. Read the content and JUDGE it on what it says, not what it looks like. 6.You've never taken psychology. Oh look, the newyork times. Read. http://query.nytimes.com... 7.2/3 of prison offenders, especially drug users re offend. Rehabilitation doesn't work. Want to know how I know that? I just took a Criminal Justice class from a PROFESSOR WHO HAS BEEN STUDYING CRIMINOLOGY FOR 20 YEARS! Are you smarter than a professor of criminology of 20 years? I think not. Quote me a study that shows that drugs = you are lazy and don't do any work. You won't find one. I'm not saying the state has a right to rehabilitate drug users. But what choice do they have? Do it and get out of jail early! They shouldn't be there in the first place. If they have addiction issues outside of jail they GO TO REHAB! WILLINGLY not through force from the fed. 8. That entire paragraph just explained and advocated psychological addiction. Thanks. 9."One large study" NAMES DATES AND SOURCES. "A respectable scientist..." 10. No idea what you're talking about. 11.Drug users are people too and are affected the same way. Also, they use double blind studies to insure that there is no placebo affect. 12.I'd rather buy the cheap stuff from 7/11 that I know will get me high, and I get a guaranteed price. Besides, marijuana "stores" would open (similar to medical marijuana shops) and would sell all varieties of marijuana goods. Eventually they would conglomerate and become corporations and cater to the whole nation. Let's use your pirated movies example for something else. Tomatoes are legal. People still grow them at home for fun, or for a unique taste. My point is that all they would need is the seeds and they could grow at home. They wouldn't have to import it. You still have failed to quote anything, you use vague terms and your logic is so utterly flawed that I don't understand why I spent time typing this. I again refer you to the quality of life in Europe, and the decriminalized use of marijuana (and let's face it, they don't care about ANYTHING else either, I lived there.) They are happier, smarter, and more well off than us. We on the other hand have more people in jail per capita and in raw numbers than any other nation in the history of the world. Most of them non offenders. My closing remark is that if you remove the illegal tag from an illegal drug, it is no longer immoral. It can be treated when used maliciously or an addiction is formed. It can be taxed and sold within the united states and it would. The infrastructure already exists within the tobacco industry, and I guarantee if it was legalized they would begin selling it. Unless, they don't want to make money....how likely is that?