Drugs should be legalized.

First I would like to state that since he did not answer my rebuttals and only my contentions, pull the rebuttal arguments through in favor of my side. Moving on to my opponents rebuttals First, lets address what you say about addicts getting support. Addicts, at any time, can go to a rehabilitation center on their own free will and get help without fear of legal repercussions. Otherwise, Lindsay Lohan would be serving multiple sentences for the x number of times she's visited. Most states won't even arrest you for admitting you do drugs if you do not have drugs on you or in your system because its nigh impossible to prove you actually do drugs. It is not illegal to go to rehab. Essentially that argument fails, because anyone, of any race, gender, ethnicity, financial status, or dug addiction can go to rehabilitation. Also you say "One of the main problems, is that because the drug market is underground" While that's true, there will always be an underground drug market, I pointed this out in my Rebuttal 2 where I talk about how we can't eradicate the cartels influence even if we legalize currently illegal substances. Also, there will always be an illegal market, children, that will have to go underground to get drugs.Next he talks about my economics argument. First before I move on to talking about the argument, I want to indict the source of that study. Jeffrey A. Miron, while being a Harvard economist, is hardly a credible source. Nearly every public policy position he stands on is motivated by libertarian thinking, and he's a senior fellow at the CATO institute (a libertarian think tank). For all intents and purposes he's really a lobbyist, and I don't find his study credible. Mr. Miron also opposes anti bribery laws which are a pretty good thing.Now, on to the argument. First those are estimates in how much the government would make, not solid numbers. In fact I have no idea where he got those numbers because those numbers would change according to a couple variables.In order for that to be in any way accurate we would have to know 1.) The cost of the drugs in a free market2.) The tax rate of the drug AND sales tax for the individual state3.) The rate of drug consumptionWithout knowing the true variables behind those three variables, which can not be accurately predicted, where in the hell did he get his number? Either way, the study could be very seriously wrong if any of those variables changed. Also I assume his number come from if all people paid taxes on it. Because there would still be an illegal drug market, this would still be an inaccurate number.You also have to take into account the costs on society. Health care will exponentially increase do to the fact that it will cost more to treat all the people with addictions. In fact, it's safe to say that all insurances will go up whether it be medical, auto, or life insurance because drugs can adversely effect all of these. Drug treatment costs, hospitalization for long-term drug-related diseases, and treatment of family violence would also place additional demands on our already overburdened health system. Also my opponent fails to mention that part of that 44.1 billion that goes to law enforcement, isn't all spent on Law enforcement. Some of it is spent on prevention and education and some is spent on rehabilitation. [1] Legalization of drug usage means we'd have lower worker productivity and creates a safety issue in the work place. Would you want someone legally high to operate a bulldozer on your construction site? In fact employees who abuse drugs are five times more likely than other workers to injure themselves or co workers and they cause 40% of all industrial fatalities. [2] Not to mention the cost of drug related accidents, fines, and enforcement that would have to go with it.Basically the net costs outweigh the net benefits and therefore legalizing drugs should not be preferred.Lastly, your environment argument doesn't stand because they could grow something else other than coca on that land. But more than that even if we legalized our drug market there would still be an illegal drug market in the US and more than that Globally. They would still have to produce Coca and just because the united states legalized drugs doesn't mean we'd stop our global drug war such as the eradication of the poppy fields in Afghanistan and spraying herbicides on Colombian coca fields.[1] http://www.justice.gov...[2] http://partners2.basd.k12.wi.us...