Resolved: All drugs should be legalized for recreationial use.

For legal reasons I must state that I have never used any illegal mind altering substances.CrimeWhile at the moment drugs and other crime are very integrated they do not necessary have to be and there is past precedent that they don't have to be (well unless you count bombing the Chinese as a crime). In fact this connection is one of the main reasons why it can be argued that drugs should be legalised as this would cut out at least some of the criminals and force many others to reform their practices.EconomyAs I showed in the last round legalisation is usually linked with positive effects for the economy [1]. When a drug is legalised addicts will more often come forward and those that do will come forward and seek treatment more quickly this would lower healthcare costs rather than increase them. Furthermore the ability to treat an rehabilitate many more drug addicts would create a considerable amount of new workers who would increase economic productivity as a whole.Furthermore more research into the medical uses of many currently prohibited drugs could save untold millions even billions in medical expenses as these relatively inexpensive drugs might be able to replace vastly more expensive laboratory produced ones.Is Human Nature Really Evil?If we look at societies that function without the threat of government force (anarchist societies) we usually don't see a breakdown of morality (there are a number of examples of these [2] [3]). But regardless surly you can accept that an unnecessary authoritarian government is a bad thing.AddictionMy opponent has sited a source which claims that 37 people died on the first day of legalisation in Colorado. I thought this was a bit suspicious as previous to this no one has ever been recorded to have died from an overdose of cannabis [4]. And so I tracked down his claim to a "daily current" claiming that the "Rocky Mountain News" first published the story. The "Rocky Mountain News" turns out to be a tabloid that ran from 1859 to 2009 [5] [6] (?). Now this seemed odd to me as well and then I found the real explanation: On the about section of the "Daily Current's" website it lists a question and that question is "Are your news stories real?" the answer provided was: "No. Our stories are purely fictional. However they are meant to address real-world issues through satire and often refer and link to real events happening in the world" [7].The main claim of your other source (which was an un-sited blog) was that children would find it easier to get hold of drugs. I don't know about you but from personal experience drugs are much more offered to me (as an under age person) than alcohol and I suspect that if drugs were legalised then this would no longer be the case.A Few Words on the Insane DrugsI never said that drugs were safe or that under any circumstances you should take them.[1] https://mises.org...[2] Schmidt, Michael (2013). Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism[3] http://en.wikipedia.org...[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com...[5] http://dailycurrant.com... ("According to a report in the Rocky Mountain News").[6] http://en.wikipedia.org...[7] http://dailycurrant.com...Post Script: I am not an American (I'm Scottish) and as such arguments relating to the US constitution don't really have any meaning to me (and more or less every other non-US-citizen) I understand the importance of the US constitution to Americans but it has no significant meaning to me.