Drugs must be made legal

"Heroin can kill an average person quicker than Alcohol and certainly Tobacco and it would be ridiculous to make such Drugs legal."Since when does the speed at which something can kill you matter? I will again use my reckless sport analogy: The risk of hitting the ground from a mile above ground when skydiving is almost certainly more dangerous than heroin, and probably faster. I will elaborate on this more later on."The main reason why less people have died is because less people have broken the law so to have drugs."I think this is debatable, too. Anyone who wants to do heroin is going to find a way to do heroin. Just because it's now legalized doesn't mean that more people are going to do it. Mary Cleveland, a professor at Columbia University, has made similar findings: "Most people choose not to use illicit drugs even when they have cheap and easy access to them. Enforcement can have some effect on light users; regular and problem users will get their drugs even in prison (1).""It was thought to have alcohol banned in America in 1920 to 1933 and that was one of the main causes of the mafia bosses and the corruption in America started. This was because alcohol was used for dinner parties and personal entertainment."Are you implying that drugs aren't/weren't used recreationally? Either way, this does not change the fact that alcohol is still a potentially dangerous substance. A substance's legal status shouldn't hinge on how many people participate in its use-- this is a backwards way of thinking. If everyone started shooting up heroin, by this logic, it stands to reason it would be legalized. We both know this isn't true, though; it would still be condemned. Since alcohol, a potentially dangerous substance and totally comparable to drugs of any sort, is legal, illicit drugs should be as well."I am aware of the fact that there are many bad things happening in America but why pay no attention to drugs?Some dishonest people who are very likely to break the law, for their own sake would not take drugs fearing for it to kill them."I'm sorry, but I fail to see how this relates to any point you're trying to make. Otherwise, I would provide a response. I suppose my best one would be that there are plenty of decent people who do drugs who can control themselves."(A)s for such people who take dangerous risks such as mountain climbing, skyjumping , diving and so on... with most of them doing it for charity and them all doing it with protective suit on (some of them for sport)"By that logic, if people started doing drugs for sport or charity, they would be more acceptable. This clearly does not make any sense. Sky-diving, mountain/cliff climbing and bungee jumping are all insanely dangerous activities, and when done by people who don't know what they're doing, they can be fatal. They can be fatal to those who are experienced. When these activities are not illegal in any way and are just as dangerous as drugs, if not more so, it seems crazy that drugs are still condemned.___A point that I would like to introduce here is the fact that we should have the right to put whatever we want into our bodies. Just as we have the right to eat candy all day if we want, or eat McDonald's, smoke cigarettes, drink till we have kidney failure, or use medicine at all, we should have the right to use drugs recreationally. As senior fellow of the Cato Institute Doug Bandow puts it: "One of the freedoms that should be treated as a legal right is drug use. Making this argument is not to encourage drug use. Rather, it is to hold that government may not properly criminalize drug use... Adults are entitled to ingest substances even if a majority views that decision as foolish... Thus, any analysis of liberty should include protection of the freedom to take drugs. Such a freedom need not be treated as absolute, given the negative impact of drug abuse. However, a free society should affirm and protect individuals who choose to ingest substances which alter their mental and physical states." - (2)I also extend all of my points that went unrefuted. These include, but are not limited to: The fact that drugs are just as dangerous and addictive as many risky activities that are legal (abortion included), the lack of harm that legalizing drugs would result in, and its moral standing.1. http://www.mcleveland.org...2. http://object.cato.org...