Legalize all drugs, tax, regulate them.

Thank you for accepting. I will start with the first topic you mentioned you'd like covered: criminal organizations. By this, I can only believe you mean drug cartels. Yes, the drug cartel is a problem costing citizen's lives. One effect of legalizing drugs and regulating them will have is the opening of shops across all of America. This is going to cut drugs sold on the streets by an enormous degree, therefore limiting the power of the drug cartel as far less smuggling will be happening and more importing and planting will (add tariffs and the government makes money from that as well.) We must recognize the difference between drug trafficking and drug retailing. With your mentioning of petty arrests, I can assume you agree with me at least to a degree that arrests over drug possession are unnecessary. If not, I'll deliver my point. Someone is arrested in America every 25 seconds for simply drug possession which also goes to show that the government obviously can't fully get rid of drugs because people will always have them in one way or another (either mainstream or alternatives which might be incredibly harmful like bath salts or just simple ones like salvia which should be a mint normally.) If the government doesn't work for getting rid of something and it's something that doesn't inflict upon the rights of others, it shouldn't be a crime. No victim, no crime. I think medical use and recreational use are both okay. Sometimes recreational use even helps with medical issues like anxiety, depression, or insomnia. That also goes along with that there is a fine line because medical marijuana isn't always made available for people who could genuinely use it and make it more effective than another prescription drug. The act of prohibition in the past mainly includes alcohol. First of all I think this path of prohibition with drugs is taking the same path as the act with alcohol. A) Certain states aren't enforcing it, though it is a federal law. B) Alcohol prohibition ended slowly by starting with medical use which is prevalent with medical marijuana and certain drugs like LSD have also proved to be medically advantageous. C) Thousands of people died from drinking tainted liquor whilst prohibition was in effect. This relates to the issue of alternatives being used. In 2011, 6.5 million people were sent to the ER due to abuse of bath salts. Remember pop star Prince? He died because he used heroin laced with a drug 10,000 times as powerful as morphine (morphine is incredibly strong, given to people who are likely to be amputated; imagine 10,000 times that.) If we legalize and regulate drugs, then people won't be pushed into the place taking these drugs, whether alternatives like bath salts, or incredibly powerful and uncontrolled heroin. They will be able to have access to the drugs that they want to use in a regulated and reasonable matter. I'm once again going to go back to the "no victim, no crime" statement from before to conclude my argument for this round. It isn't the government's business what drugs anyone decides to take and what they choose to do with their bodies and lives. Only in the case, that someone's genuine rights are being inflicted upon, is it the government's business. You have rights over your autonomy and should be allowed to use those rights as you choose. https://elevationshealth.com... (money argument from before) http://www.drugpolicy.org... http://www.history.com... https://consumer.healthday.com... http://www.cnn.com...