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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 307821, member: 722"]
The ability to find crack or coke or heroin or prescription drugs is all pretty easy.  Any person can ask around and find a dealer.  Weed is even easier.  If you were an alien and walked into a room, and didn't know any euphemism for marijuana, you could still find it in a few minutes of work.  Such a culturally acceptable drug is still illegal in most places...?!  So, the "war on drugs" has failed terribly.  Everyone can see it.  That you are using prescription drugs as a way of arguing the point actually makes it worse...
 
Why do we have OUR DEA operating in the wrong country?  Similarly difficult to regulate drugs are being crafted in street labs instead of major companies we can control... AND TAX!
 
I think the US could use tax money that is currently used to pay through illegal channels money to foreign entities.  Money that is currently flowing out for drugs that are currently illegal.   If the US had a system of controlling drugs like (name seven), instead of illegalizing them, we as a people could benefit from control of dosage, distribution and taxation. 
 
Right now, the biggest profit tax free income in this country is drugs.  The "war on drugs" is among our most expensive government expenses.
 
With one tremendous swipe of the government pen, we could get all those very effective and skilled DEA cops out there fighting things like real crime and terrorism, AND we could get all those people making money selling illegal drugs into legitimate businesses or at least into welfare.
 
The income from legalizing drugs and then regulating and taxing them instead of "fighting" them ineffectually would fund a great deal of services instead of this current misguided effort.
 
Yikes, sorry about the social rant.
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