Right, criminal organizations control the black market drug flow...legalize drugs and there goes most of their funding.
dude, the guy who would do heroin would get addicted, then spend all his money in it, then die. it would cost so much money in desintoxication centers, etc. plus, ppl are too irrresponsable. why do u think heroin became illegal in 1923 in USA? too many ppl died, and were addicted.
Not everyone who does H is addicted to it. Legal or prescirbed pharmaceutical grade diamorphine would be much safer than anything comming from the streets. Users of heroin could support themselves in the same way people who use tobacco or alcohol products do.
It doesn't matter if people are irresponsible, any irresponsible individual who wanted to do any drug could do so even with drugs illegal. This is the main point I try to convey, drugs are illegal...irresonsible people and kids are still doing them and there is no reason to believe upon legalization anymore would.
By the way, I think opiates became illegal to spite chinese immigrants. If you're wondering why there were so many opiate addicts back then it just may well have been because the shit was in a variety of over the counter products and medications (even for children) and heroin was introduced by Bayer pharmaceuticals to be a non-addictive substitute for morphine. Boy they must have been surprised.