Drugs should not be legalized, and drug dealers should be punished greatly to save lives.

You are spewing lies now. I will rebut you, as I should have done more completely earlier. Each paragraph I write corresponds with the paragraphs you wrote. The constitution says, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", not "government approved life, liberty from freedom, and the pursuit of society approved forms of happiness". You seem to forget that people do drugs because they like the high, or in other words, they use drugs to pursue a form happiness. And as far as the general welfare is concerned, the best thing for society at large is to make 49% a slave to the 51%. But it is for the general welfare, no? Where did I say crimes would go unpunished? Did anyone, anywhere, ever hear me say that!? Have you ever heard of a DUI?! I'm calling for legalized drugs, not legalized crime. If crime bumps up, three things will happen. One, crime will go down. Non-violent drug users are currently thrown in jail. The numbers will go down from that. Two, dangerous people will always do dangerous things. Drugs won't help them remain in control of themselves, but what do you think alcohol does? Three, have you ever heard of this thing called the drug war? Yeah, over. Cartels will lose much of their power, and only legal drugs will be necessary. Crime will go down. You won't respond to my answer because you don't know what you would do. Are you also calling for the banning of alcohol? Should we get rid of video games next? Why don't we just go ahead and turn our media over to the government so that we don't have to see scary news. I mean, news makes you angry. Actually, speaking of anger, why don't we just get rid of it as well. I mean, do you know how many people are angry, and how much violence angry people commit? I know everyone is capable of anger, but that will change once we make it illegal. You only want to control people's happiness. That's much more preferable than letting them live their own lives. Yes, please tell people what they can like doing, because everyone should be just like you. That isn't totalitarian at all. Sure people may do harmful things, but, everyone should trust your judgement. Oh wait, that's stupid. I forgot that the government is inept, that you don't run my life, and that I have this magical thing called freedom. Here things actually get kind of funny. First, it's libertarian, not liberal. Second, you do realize that opening the drugs to the free market will take power away from the government, right? Right? If drugs are open to the market, producers will control drugs, not the government. And it's not even just one producer that will control the drug either. It's all of the producers sharing it evenly. Now, I've run out of space. Here is my summary. Bringing in government to protect people from their own choices is stupid. If we did it every time something bad came out, we would be called communists. Drugs harm only the user. The user may harm others, but they can and should be punished. You want to protect people from themselves, because you "know" better than them. I want to let people have pleasure or pain according to their desires. As long as they don't end up hurting others, I'm alright. Once they do harm another person, then please do intervene. Now, I realize that drugs do harm. The source that you gave is right as far as I'm concerned. People die from using drugs. But they choose to do it. I allow people to make that choice. You don't. I let people live their own lives. You don't. I have too much more to talk about. I should have given you more earlier. I'm sorry. So I'm challenging you to a new debate, specifically about marijuana. I hope that it will be clearer than this one. Message me if you accept P.S. Drugs have been illegal for a while now. Please tell me how it has been better than what is happening now in Colorado? The drug war alone has cost about 51 billion dollars, and Mexico has lost 70,000 lives due to it. http://matadornetwork.com...