All drugs should be legalized for both medical and recreational use.

1) so what your saying is the child who's parents introduce him to Krokodil are only perusing their own happiness? Krokodil causes people to ROT alive, their skin falls off their body as it melts. I don't know about you, but my persuit to happiness doesn't include watching people melt, infact it involves some form of happiness. Infact Krokodil causes dipression and not happiness, the DEA stated "Pharmacology studies on laboratory animals with desomorphine demonstrated that desomorphine was generally more potent than morphine in all tested activities including: 1) toxicity in white mice and young rabbits, 2) analgesic action in cats, 3) respiratory effects in rabbits, 4) general depression in rabbits, and 5) gastrointestinal motility in rabbits." [http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov...] so they aren't pursuing happiness they are killing themselves and causing depression, all because we legalized an addictive substance. 2) So are you saying minors don't ever drink, smoke, or chew tobacco? adults buy it and give it to their kids, and yes, i know several people 2 children, 5 adults, that broke limbs and were administered morphine. But because it is so addictive they became addicted to it. 3A) How does that make any sense? if its more accessible people will be more likely to use it, and if they are likely to use it then they die, or rot away. 3B) That's the point, a funeral is more expenceive than regulated drugs, so people can go broke buying drugs. That means the govt. pays 7 to 10 thousand dollars, and since deaths are higher we pay millions. [http://www.learnvest.com...] in 2012, 222,738 prisoners were sentenced to time for drug use/possession. so lets do some math; 222,738 drug users *$10,000 = $2,227,380,000 for deaths of drug users per YEAR, and this doesn't account for the growth due to accessibility [http://www.drugwarfacts.org...] That is too high, and we are causing deaths. 3C) we have cigarettes now and people die, do they have the ability to talk to doctors, counselors, and other people who can help? Yes. But they still die/suffer. 3D)children as i stated above are exposed to these drugs, is it ok that their lives are being risked? Overdosing has nothing to do with purity, is has to do with the amount we intake, and setting it up for recreational use means NO DOSAGES, its use at your own risk. while crime may go down we spend more and more on deaths, and a families may break over prisons or death HOWEVER there will be an influx in death, that means more deaths than prisoners, which leads to more broken families. 3E) I don't know what world your from but drugs, alchol, and cigarettes are used by teens. "40 per cent of 12 to 13-year-olds " and that rose to "60 per cent among 14 to 15-year-olds", that doesn't sound like a decrease that's working. but it gets worse "Twenty-two per cent of 14 to 15-year-old girls and around 6 per cent of 12 to 13-year-old girls report smoking regularly. Smoking during teenage years increases the risk of lung cancer, even if the smoker stops. Girls and women who smoke are particularly at risk of breast cancer and osteoporosis." If your programs were working why is there an increase as children get older? [http://www.dailymail.co.uk...]