Sin? Really? Laws need to be based on reason, not dogma; sin is religious dogma and has no place in law. If that's your only argument against drugs, then you have no real argument against drugs.
> If you ask anyone involved in the anti-drug business, both directly and indirectly, they will tell you that drugs are serious problem in this country
Of course they will, their paychecks depend on it, that doesn't make it true and you shouldn't be looking to those who personally gain from the anti-drug business as a trusted authority on the drugs. They have incentive to lie to you; incentives matter, look to science, not business, for real answers.
> KEEP DREAMING! The legalization of marijuana in Colorado did not get marijuana dealers into legal territory.
It got marijuana users into legal territory, which is what's important.
If not you are a hypocrite. I have alcoholics in my family and I've also known users of other "hard" drugs, and alcohol is certainly as bad as cocaine or heroin.
statistically speaking alcohol isn't even in the same league as any other drug. it ruins and kills more people than any other drug period. it's highly hypocritical that we as a society are accepting of it (and glorify it), yet we shun e.g. marijuana. just look up the numbers they don't lie... (ftfy)
Since the subject is how good or bad the substance is, the relevant figure would be the number of people it ruins or kills, divided by some measure of how many people take it and how often they take it. The number of people who take alcohol is much greater than the number who take illegal recreational drugs, so we would expect many more alcohol deaths even if all drugs were biologically equivalent. I think that, on the correct metric, marijuana would beat alcohol hands down (that is, it is safer), but I'm less certain about heroin or cocaine. Do you happen to know those numbers?
(for the record, I am in favor of legalizing all drugs)
Stopping to re-evaluate the data leads to better outcomes. Such as the correlation between decriminalisation of canabis and a reduction in drug related crime. The same as we saw with the repeal of prohibition and the reduction in the need to bootleg for something society broadly decided was "fine". If the social contract between government and the governed breaks down so far that you have public wilful disobedience of a law, then it's unlikely that you can imprison enough people for breaking that law to ever stop the inevitable change to those laws.
[citation needed] because this is where you really go off the rails and I have a sense that it's part of your argument's foundation.
There is no such thing as sin, legally, and there's something to be said for letting people do what they want to do. If the government wants their taste to handle problems (and more, natch), then that comes as no surprise.
There are all kinds of things that do people varying degrees of "harm" and are legal. Jogging and sugar come to mind.
> Drugs are actually pretty safe
I do not believe for a moment this lie! If you ask anyone involved in the anti-drug business, both directly and indirectly, they will tell you that drugs are serious problem in this country. Likewise, if you ask EMTs about alcoholism, they will you alcohol is a significant problem in this country. They have even termed a person who has been drinking alcohol for many years as a "wet brain" because even when they are sober their minds don't function fully.
> And I'm looking forward when "harder" drugs like cocaine, meth and heroin are legalized or at least tolerated - no more drug turf wars, no more shadow states in Latin America, and especially far fewer deaths and medical issues from contaminated drugs.
KEEP DREAMING! The legalization of marijuana in Colorado did not get marijuana dealers into legal territory. They simply moved on to more horrific drugs. Legalization of all drugs will only invoke the dark side of street pharmacy, similar to "medicines made in Canada" bs.
> what makes them ... dangerous is the contamination
And I am sure that the drug itself poses no affects on the mind! Are you retarded?!
> Just look at the millions of dollars pot alone creates in tax revenue.
Yes! of course why not! Let's make all sin a legal thing and tax it like crazy! Money, after all,validates anything long-time wisdom deems to be a problem. Now if there was no money, maybe it should not be legalized then, shouldn't it?