Ok... I don't think strong armed robbery is a good comparison... You're TAKING from someone by force.
Alcohol IS a drug... you're right... AND it's legal.
Other drugs will cause no more harm than alcohol and in most cases LESS harm than the laws used to "enforce" it's crime.... Money to cartels and the wars on the borders for instance.
The numbers on Alcholo related car crashes are TOTALLY inflated and that's common knowledge... So using that as a basis doesn't really bring much to the table unless you're a proponent of MADD.
Would meth heads be dead if meth were illegal? Sure... but guess what... More people die from legal prescription drugs and no one says a thing.
The fact is, people who choose to use drugs do not care what the legality is... They just use them.
None of this factors in the cost of tax dollars being wasted to enforce these laws and incarcerate people for violating these drug laws which have no direct impact on society as a whole.
If your fried dies or ruins his life, that sucks, but my life doesn't change... If your friend gets incarcerated, then my tax dollar has to pay for him.
I see a difference in social impact and interpersonal impact.
Fact is, drug laws don't stop anything and only cost more money.
I'm much like Chaos... I rarely drink and I don't use any other drug except for the occasional excedrine for a headache. So drug laws in general don't affect me, but that doesn't mean I'm blind to the hypocrisy, nor the expense that comes out of my pocket to incarcerate people who will do me no harm.
My analogies are correct. It is fact that no law will prevent any crime from being committed. It is personable responsibility born of good character that does so. People want to do what they want to do and if there is a law against said behavior, then the irresponsible people out there will do their best to circumvent (read: ignore) that law.
Too bad that many people only feel responsible (but rarely personally so) if they're caught and even then that is rare. The ubiquitous "everyone's doing it", or the race card/abused child/mentally challenged defenses comes to mind...
Thanks.
