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

I realize that I might not explained myself well enough. While I think all drugs should be legal, I still think there should be regulation. For example, only adults should be able to 1) It doesn't matter if you would allow thousands to kill themselves, the governments job is to protect its citizens (EA: police, Military, Fire department, ect.) You cannot claim its protecting its citizens if people are melting from drugs. Children are effected by their parents melting, and lots of times even innocent children are introduced into drugs by friends and family, not all of them go into it thinking, oh this will melt me. All of this is protecting people who weren't intentionally trying to die. They are protecting their right to happiness. Letting people kill themselves is part of the pursuit of happiness. (This seems to be turning into a debate about the right to kill yourself.) 2) Smoking and drinking are not nearly as addictive as morphine, morphine is also used medically, so people who are given medical morphine and become addicted will be fueled by recreational use. and remember even children are administered morphine in hospitals. So you are for legalizing MASS addiction and then feeding it. I wanted to legalize it, not making it so there won't be any regulation. Only adults would be allowed to buy drugs. Have you ever heard of people getting morphine in a hospital and becoming addicted? 3A) Children in situations worse than you are exposed to drugs more often than you, so those parents who die will expose their children who initially could have avoided it. The same parents could have got them from the black market. I think that increased regulation would mean that less people will die, even if drugs are easier to get. 3B) A funeral is more expensive than a life in prison or in every drug users case, a year or two. Who pays for the funeral? The individual. If they don't have money for a funeral, they don't have money for drugs. Perhaps make a law that people that die from suicide/intentionally harming don't get their funeral covered by the government/anyone that uses drugs for non medical use forfeits government paying for their funeral? As I said, regulations and laws will have to address this. 3C)no that's the point you're causing a continuous cycle of increased potency of addiction. If people have pure drugs, and can freely talk to their doctors, counselors, and other people who can help, won't that mean that they'll be less likely to be addicted to the point that it harms them then if they had to get their drugs on the black market, with no regulation ? 3D) there is a massive amount of harm, people dead, melting, ODing, broken families, Equal crime, all for a "possible benefit." Only people that are willing to risk their lives thus will die. Overdosing becomes less likely because people have pure drugs and proper directions on how to use them. Families are definitely broken if someone goes to jail. As I said, there is one less illegal activity available, so there will be less crime. 3E)Yea and we see how that works out, its legal, so they don't care. It's working pretty well. "...the anti-smoking "Truth" campaign has been highly successful. The ads don't talk down to teens or even tell them not to smoke. They basically say smoke if you want to, but it's stupid. And you'll have bad breath. And you won't to be able to run without gasping for breath. That's effective. Cornell University's anti-binge-drinking "smart woman" campaign is also promising. It avoids paternalistic messages not to drink and teaches students how to use good judgment and avoid high-risk drinking behavior." (2) (2) http://www2.potsdam.edu...