Should drugs be banned in United States

Thats unfortunate. I was looking forward to this round, hearing constructive solutions to the issues we named, the most. I suppose I'll keep it short then and state what positions that Con presented that i'd be willing to concede on given the proper culture was in place to handle it. 1) The supply and demand thing: Basically this is unavoidable. The only way I see problems raised by streamlining the drug trade going away is by continuing pressure on foreign imports of the substances while also making campaigns on public opinion to help educate people about the risks of these drugs. I think we've become far to comfortable with their use in our society, so much so that people have begun to lose the sense of danger associated with addictive drugs. In much the same way cigarettes are becoming increasingly unpopular for the harm they do, we need to be cultivating a people free from the desire to even use drugs in a recreational manner. 2) Constitutionality: Being that we want people to have the freedom to make this choice by themselves, while at the same time people making the correct choice not to use them, we require that culture from above. If we were truly holding people who decided to use accountable for their lifes circumstance and their consequent crimes on the rest of us ... then I would say all is well, give them the chance to make the right choice. As it stands in areas where we have legalized these types of drugs in the past (Marijuana and Alcohol being my prime examples) we have no reason to believe that a more dangerous drug would be treated with any control that would protect the citizens who chose not to use from the damages the drug would cause them. Drunk drivers take the lives of innocents everyday and get off with manslaughter. Their conscious choice ends up getting glazed over by the fact that they are unaware of what they do in their intoxicated state. Until this type of injustice goes away ... I wouldn't condone increasing that risk any further than where it sits right now. 3) Drug rehab: I agree that we should give people a chance to atone for their mistake, if they are willing. But with chances to go into remission being so extremely high with these things we need to be prioritizing the rest of society and not spend as much time and money into fixing outliers. Jail is for this purpose. I don't understand why everyone thinks of them solely as a rehab center. They are there to isolate the bad. Rehabilitation comes from within. If they want to be clean bad enough, they will. If they don't, the jail serves its second purpose of keeping these people away from damaging others or propagating whatever sent them there in the first place. We don't need to be making good by them. Our focus should be making good to the community and allowing criminals the time and freedom of choice to make good with themselves. In conclusion, bring controls to the proper level to handle these new drugs first. Build containment for the animal youre about to bring into the country before it gets here. Don't legalize it first and try to play catch up. We will never win like that. Also, create a culture that doesn't lean towards drug use. People will use it and there will be many that take it too far. We can cut that number down now by not popularizing the harmlessness of these things and instead educate people so they are better equipped to make proper decisions for themselves when the time comes. Then drugs will handle themselves in a Roe Effect fashion. Having an uneducated population is what will truly foster the will to use these drugs anyways. As that increases, so does drug use. They work in conjunction.