In addition to our fourth argument: Decriminilisation of drugs will diminish organised crime

The fourth counterargument of the opposition is also not very convincing. It shows their incompetence when talking of government affairs. So, we say that legalization of the drug trade will diminish the organized crime and the black market to very small levels. And you say that after paying all the taxes and other costs operation the drug dealers will still remain on the market. Ok, and what is wrong with that? Since they pay their taxes they will be regular taxpayers with legal business. They will no longer be part of the organized crimes and the black market. The opposition has misunderstood our words about blackmail and theft. We say that they surround the current illegal business. This may happen in different ways – drug dealers can blackmail drug addicts for more money; drug addicts can blackmail other people to give them money for drugs; drug addicts can steal expensive objects, money or something else that is valuable in order to pay for the expensive drugs on the illegal market. However, if drug trading becomes legal theft and blackmail will fall to very low levels or will almost disappear. Since drug trading will be legal there will be fixed prices for every kind of drug. These prices will be significantly lower compared to the current fluctuating prices on the black market. Now drugs are illegal. Therefore, they are expensive. When drugs become legal they will be easily acquired because they are produced easily and cheaply and they will be found in the shops. The opposition also depicted a very interesting scheme concerning the drug pushing. Fortunately, it works for our case. We do not think that currently there is any alcohol pushing. Everybody can buy alcohol whenever he/she likes. The discounts that the opposition is talking about only contribute to the developing of a better competitive market. And exactly this will happen with drugs. When there is better competitive market prices will be lower, the quality of drugs will also be better and therefore the will be no drug pushing. The opposition actually states that when something is on discount one will buy it at all cost. That is ridiculous. When you see a magazine of a big supermarket with many special offers and discounts do you buy all the products on discount or do you buy only things you need? A person who wants to buy a drug will buy it and another who is not interested in it will not buy it only because of the discount. The opposition also gave a very interesting explanation about the usage of the drugs in the USA and the Netherlands. According to them just because US citizens have higher incomes than the Dutch they use more drugs. In this train of thought we may assume that in Luxemburg where the living standards are highest in the world there are a great number of drug addicts. We were also accused of not offering evidence and statistics about the use of drugs in the USA and the Netherlands We here they are! ‘[[http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/67]]’ These statistics show that in the Netherlands there is the lowest number of drug addicts in Europe! Undoubtedly that is possible because of their tolerance towards the trade and use of drugs. In the end of their fourth counterargument the opposition writes the following: ‘they (the proposition) have to show the direct correlation between these two factors (legalization of drugs and the use of them)’. As far as I can understand what the opposition says they imply that there is no direct correlation between legalization of drugs and the use of them. So they actually agree with us that if we legalize drug trade that will not increase the current consumption of drugs. That very much makes the debate pointless as they agree with us but still we will refute their other arguments.