Drug Legalization in North America

I'll explain mine is greater detail: Legalizing drugs will make nations more in debt. You are saying that the government is going to make millions or even billions if we legalize drugs. Will that be enough to pay for the damage people who use drugs make? They usually don't have a job, cause traffic accidents, live off of welfare, increase domestic violence, and countless other things that would hurt our economy and make our government in even more debt. There would be more deaths if drugs got legalized. This would be bad. So you are saying that people who are useless to society would be better off dead? Almost everybody on welfare isn't helping the world in some way or another. But they don't help the world by dying. Who knows? What if someday in the future they become the person to think up some genius idea that saves thousands of lives? And it wouldn't just be drug users dying. What if someone who was high gets in a car and crashes and kills the people in the other car he hit? They don't deserve to die, but they did. They died because drugs got legalized, causing someone to use them without getting stopped and making a bad decision because their mind wasn't thinking clearly. "There is the Denver man who, hours after buying a package of marijuana-infused Karma Kandy from one of Colorado"s new recreational marijuana shops, began raving about the end of the world and then pulled a handgun from the family safe and killed his wife, the authorities say."[1] Innocent people don't deserve to die, and more of them would die if drugs got legalized. Police would be burdened by having to check on harder drug users and would have to be focused on them instead of other crimes that need attending. I'd rather have cops stopping robberies than checking on some heroine addicts to make sure they aren't taking too much. They shouldn't have to make routine checks on people. Plus, just think of how much more work it would be to keep track of every single person who has bought a drug. I'm sure there would be a few forgotten somewhere. Drugs are bad for you. But I'd rather not have people destroy their own bodies. I wouldn't want my neighbors to do drugs, legal or illegal. I want neighbors who I can call if I want to chat, get some help or advice from, and just have there for me. Also, meth labs are dangerous. I wouldn't want explosions to happen in the yard next to mine. "Cocaine can kill the brain cells that allow users to get 'high' on the drug, say scientists." [2] I don't want a lot of people with low brain cells that are high voting in the next election. I don't think a lot of other people do either. I will explain my thoughts on some of yours now: About 100,000 people are sentenced to prison yearly for drug related charges, which is approximately half of all inmates. There would still be lots of people going to jail that broke the laws like driving under the influence of drugs, being in public under the influence, and giving drugs to minors and people will a bad history for examples. The murder rate would lower substantially, considering at least 1,100 people are killed in the drug war yearly. Maybe the drug war deaths would cease to exist, but there would be and even greater number of people killed because of bad decisions druggies would choose when they aren't thinking clearly due to drugs. We could possibly cut down on taxes, considering a large amount of taxes go toward fighting the war on drugs. But then taxes would go up to pay for the damages drug users do to the economy. When you are high, there is no telling what you would do. Politicians wouldn't run for office to extort people for currently-illegal drug related ideas. We might get some politicians who are drug users, if that would be legal. Who knows what horrible decisions they would make for our countries? [1] http://www.nytimes.com... [2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk... I don't know how to bold and italicize text yet, so sorry if it is a little jumbled together. This is only my second debate.