I dunno. What point are you trying to make here?
Correct. That's why they should be legalized.
Wrong.
First rule: if you treat someone, anyone, like a criminal, they will become a criminal. It's called
labeling theory.
Drug-related crime is more prevalent than alcohol or tobacco-related crime because drugs are a scarce resource. It's not as common as alcohol or tobacco and you're not supposed to have them in the first place, hence, the associated value for drugs is very high and owners will do what they have to buy and protect them, some will go as far as stealing and murder.
Ya, legalizing will make drugs more accessible but that doesn't mean there will be more users, as there are people who choose not to drink or smoke. And, even if there are more users, they're less likely to turn out to be bad apples because they won't have to worry how, when and where their next fix is coming from and won't have to guess on the quality of product. It's the stress from all of this that makes them go nuts, not the heroin, that just makes them sleepy. It's true, the bad apple users exist only because it's so difficult to get a fix.
This is basic micro-economics.
You have no idea what a vice is. Gambling is a vice, smoking is a vice, drinking is a vice, sex can be a vice, spending too much time on AMHD is a vice. . . a vice is something someone does
for himself for fun, but sometimes he goes overboard with it. What you listed are sicknesses that affect other people. A rapist doesn't rape for kicks, he rapes out of anger and hatred.
Your arguments would be much more solid if you knew what you were talking about.
