All drugs of all classifications should be legal.

First of all. Your entire argument is already null with one statement. It's not the job of the federal government to monitor what I do with my body. That having been said, there are some merits and safety issues I should address to be fair. "has a duty to care for it's citizens" Sure. I agree with that. But my governments concerns should be my right to happiness as long as I don't infringe upon the rights of others. The principle on which our country was founded. "seat belt laws"-If I want to not wear a seat belt, it's my PERSONAL decision, I don't hurt anyone by not wearing one. Now then onto meth. I hate meth. I think it's a terrible drug that destroys families and lives and it was one of the drugs I was NOT referring to when I said "most". That having been said, if one legalizes it, make medical help for it available, people will stop making it in trailers and dying from chemical inhalation. Again, it's the right of the government to inhibit what I use. Meth is bad I'm not disagreeing with you. But it's the RIGHT of a free citizen to use it if he wants. Educate people about it's dangers and treat addicts and not criminals, maybe they will stop using, maybe they won't. But it doesn't affect me. Onto my points that you think you refuted. 1.http://www.taxpolicycenter.org... That's the taxation income for cigarettes. That's billions of dollars. For 1 ADDICTING drug. Legalizing all other drugs would triple or quadruple that income and that is a substantial amount of money. You can't even begin to argue that. I would gladly pay 0-20% tax on a pack of marijuana joints. 2.Quote me studies. You are generalizing. To say all drugs are bad is stupid. Long term use of many drugs is going to have some consequences, such as weight gain from the munchies. But if you EDUCATE THE PEOPLE in what doses are healthy, which drugs are addictive, and how to quit if addiction should occur then it's fine. Besides, I'm living proof. I have been a daily (sometimes up to 5 times a day) smoker of Marijuana for 10 months. I just stopped last week because I put on weight. I don't even miss it. Also, back to my idea of personal liberty, it's not the government's job or within their power to regulate my body and what goes in. 3. "Despite intensive eradication efforts domestic marijuana production has increased ten fold over the last 25 years from 1,000 metric tons (2.2 million pounds) in 1981 to 10,000 metric tons (22 million pounds) in 2006, according to federal government estimates" (Marijuana Production in the United States (2006) By Jon Gettman, Ph.D.) Here is a counter for the War on Drugs spending for THIS YEAR. Imagine that multiplied by 30-40 years ever since it began. http://www.drugsense.org... And what has it shown? I can have marijuana, ecstasy, acid, coke, within 5 minutes because of my connections. For very cheap too. The war hasn't stopped anything it's just created a market that's in high demand and raises the cost of drugs. As long as their is a demand, there will be drugs. You can't eliminate the demand, so you can't eliminate the market. So let's stop wasting money on it. 4.Like I said, I just quit pot after heavy use for 9 months. QED. My friends invited me out to smoke. I turn them down. Some people have addictive personalities, they can't stop eating chocolate, they can't stop playing video games, they can't stop drinking.. (should we outlaw alcohol? Oh wait, we did, look how well that turned out) Granted some drugs like Heroin and Cocaine can be addicting, but there are plenty of casual users who don't get addicted. Even so, how does sending them to jail help? It just punishes them and then they repeat again because they are treated as criminals and not as patients who NEED help quitting. Besides, examine the chemical makeup of drugs, very few have a chemical that will cause a physical addiction. 5.Google "cancer marijuana" THC has been shown to attack cancer cells, combined with the coughing associated with marijuana that it is theorized shakes loose all tar from your lungs unlike cigarettes. I'm not saying he is, I'm saying that he buys into some of the hype surrounding drugs without any evidence. Myths are myths. I'm talking about STUDIES. Even so, the federal government (and much of the world whom have the capacity to) will not allow studies to pass very easily because it requires use of the drugs. This means that hard conclusive evidence on drug use is hard to come by. For what information there is, I would read the drug portal www.erowid.org. He quotes independent studies and admits when a drug is dangerous. But again, why should anyone interfere with my own personal liberties? Right, they shouldn't. As long as I don't hurt anyone. Such as DUI. If you are driving under the influence of drugs, you should be arrested and tried. That is directly endangering the lives of others and cannot go unpunished. 6. No. If drugs were legalized tomorrow. 400 companies would spring into action providing a cheap legal way to buy it LOCALLY and without being imported from other countries. If you take away the illegal market, the cartels disappear. We get cleaner drugs that aren't cut with unknown substances, quality can be regulated, and prices will go down. Cartels will no longer have a market to sell to, so they will just go legit or die out. If big corporations compete with each other (in a country like the United States where we COMPETE among businesses) then the competition will be with money, not guns. All of my points are very "mute" or did you mean moot? You just lost a huge amount of credibility for not being educated enough to know the difference. QED I win. ps. READ what I wrote back to you. Don't just spew out your opinions.