let it be resolved that all drugs should be legal

I don't accept that PRO should have BOP. The BOP is on those who are claiming that we should lock up people who use and sell drugs for life. The BOP is on those who want to use the power of the state to take away someone's freedom for the rest of their life (as current draconian drug laws allow) - if you want to do this to someone, if you want to make the very cruel and inhumane punishment of locking someone up for the rest of their life you better have a pretty good reason why you want to do it. All drugs should be legal. The war on drugs has provided great injury to our civil liberties. Every day the police spy on us, tap our phones and violate due process with warantless searches. This is a war that has turned brother against brother and son against father as people inform on each other to curry favour with the state or to punish an enemy. Prohibition of controlled substances has created a blossoming black market in the sale of illegal substances. Since those who participate in this market are by definition criminals it is no surprise to find that crime and fraud are rampant. Well meaning drug consumers are taken advantage of at every turn. Often drug dealers cut their highly expensive illegal products with other goods, in order to obtain even further profits fraudulently - if drugs were legal this would never happen. Nor would they be as expensive. The price of these drugs includes an incredible risk premium charged by the drug dealer, as well as all the extra costs associated with hiding the drug from the authorities and the extreme difficulties in shipping across borders and of course the theft of great amounts of the product by authorities. If we legalized drugs they would cost pennies on the dollar and be widely available. Pharmacists would be able to experiment freely and create newer and even cooler hallucinogens. There is simply no telling how fucked up we'd be able to get. Drugs can be used as an aid in the creation of the art. They can also be used for many medicinal purposes. For example ketamine, currently a schedule i controlled substance in my country (akin to heroin or methamphetamine), has medical uses as an anti-depressant. Yet it is a crime, punishable up to 9 years in prison to possess it. A drug that makes you happy can lend you nine years in prison. Marijuana stimulates hunger and suppresses nausea in cancer patients. Illegal. Heroin is a very effective pain killer. Illegal. Amphetamines are illegal and yet doctors prescribe them to children in the form of Adderal. It's all very contradictory and paradoxical. The war on drugs is ran at a tremendous cost at the taxpayer, all to keep people from buying things they want. It is not the state's decision if I or anyone else choose to use drugs. That is my decision and my decision alone. It is my body. Who are you, or anyone else, to tell me what I can and cannot put in my body? Ultimately if you argue this you are arguing that it is not my body, but the governments body, that I am a slave to the state and that I must take care of their body for them. If it is true that the state can regulate my consumption of drugs, then surely it must be true that the state can regulate what you eat and drink and how much exercise you get. You are conceding the moral premise of totalitarianism that virtually everything we do should be regulated by the state.