Think of the junkie who breaks into your house to steal your stuff to pay for the next hit or the person who puts a gun to your head while your at the ATM to get money to feed their addiction, or the person who is under the influence and causes a car accident that kills somebody. If people got high at home and stayed there it would be one thing but they don't
These are all crimes, and they happen regardless of drugs being legal or illegal.
The difference is, when you make drugs illegal, you invite even more crime because criminals take over the drug market.
By making drugs illegal, you also create a "gateway effect" because criminals control the soft drugs and the hard drugs. So instead of Jimmy going to a dispensary and buying weed like he would liquor, he goes to a drug dealer who also has cocaine, heroin, and meth.
You also invite criminals who don't care about quality and safety into the market. So the next time your daughter or your friends daughter takes Molly at a concert, she's ingesting a lot worse than just Molly.
The fact of the matter is that a majority of people do drugs, whether they drink alcohol, smoke weed, take molly, or smoke cigarettes. The majority of people doing drugs do it responsibly. But people like you choose to ignore that fact and point to minority of people who don't do drugs responsibly as the reason drugs should be illegal.
Why not ban cars? A minority of people don't drive responsibly.
Why not ban fast food and junk food? Some people can't eat responsibly.
No, no one brings that up because it's a bullshit argument. And it's just a bullshit to say drugs should be illegal because a few people can't control themselves and turn into junkies and alcoholics.
