Quote Originally Posted by bumclot
If there's no demand for hard drugs then there won't be any.
Sorry, but that's just entirely false. You're right that total legalization would free up money for other programs, but it certainly would not solve America's drug problem by ending demand.

I'm not sure if you know many people who are addicted to any of the real dangerous chemicals...but, if you did, you'd understand that they most definitely would not abstain from their drug of choice just because there's plenty of it around. That's not the way addiction works, unfortunately.