Sure, why not? I can see some good reasons for legalizing at least a bit of it. Maybe it would help prevent people from screwing around with the reeeally scary shite like Krokodil, and I would think legalizing it would make treatment and counseling programs easier/less stigmatized to get access to for people that need it. Also, Colorado is making a killing off the cannabis industry, so it seems like just a matter of time before other states follow suit, and other policymakers decide to take this little experiment a step further, for that reason alone.

And what would it do to organized crime? The cartels in Mexico make money hand over fist selling drugs in the US, so I'd imagine that legalizing drugs would either undermine them and take away their main revenue source, or just drive them to make their money by selling even more dangerous drugs, or turning to even more nefarious industries (human trafficking being the main one). I don't have a crystal ball or really know enough to know what would happen in that regard, but it's worth considering!

And then there's just the simple fact that our drug policy as it stands right now is accomplishing very little, and MAY be doing more harm than good. Outlawing these drugs and imprisoning people for it hasn't stopped people from doing the shite, and so a lot of neighborhoods are very unsafe thanks to a black market industry that has mushroomed from it all. I don't really know what the answers are, but I'm fairly certain that the status quo isn't working.

This post was edited on 8/14/14 at 1:05 am