"It's hypocritical to want a natural, safe, plant legalised but not lethal man made drugs?"

Yes, it is. It is hypocritical for you to say your buzz is ok, but anothers is not. I haven't died from my use of said drugs. You act as if every one that does anything other then weed is going to die on the spot. Cigs kill hundreds of thousands a year. Do you wish to make laws criminalizing that also? Tobacco is lethal. Will you save us from it with laws?

"And there's "loads of legal" medicines that can kill, I'm not aware of any single sitting lethal recreational drugs other than alcohol that are legal."

Nice try, but i wasn't talking about just recreational. Since they are illegal and unregulated, the quality is corrupted and can account for quite a few of the overdoeses. Lots of legal drugs can kill just as easy as illegal ones without the controls on quality and doesage. Get a load of this, the people that died due to overdose, died even though there were laws against using the drugs.

"The non-violent drug users in prison are the cannabis users"

Your kidding right? You think just because someone is in for coke or something, that they are violent, and all the people in for weed are non-violent? What a warped way of thinking that is. So if I was minding my own biz and doing a few lines, and got busted, would you think I was violent because of that? Prohibition is what creates the violence. End prohibition and you will end the violence.

"A tax on cannabis, which will happen when it's legalised, would pay for these and many more national benefits."

A tax on weed is why it is illegal in the first place. Sales tax from a distributer I don't mind. But if your talking tax stamp to grow, then I am against it 100%. I don't like over regulating things. Your tax the weed plan would more then likely do just that.

"Convincing a politician to legalise a plant, as a separate issue to class 'A' drugs, is far more likely than your legalise everything stance will ever be."

It's not the politicians that need convincing, it's the voters. I won't settle for doing away with only part of the drug war just because it seems a more likely win. There is no reason to continue the drug war. It has failed, and failed in a big way. What is the reason you want to keep trying a failed program? Oh yeah, people can OD and die. The drug war kills also. It's leathal to innocent people that don't even do drugs, and even to whole country sides in far off places. The crime, corruption and violence is a direct result of prohibition and the artificial prices it produces. If you like those things, then continue your drug war, and that is what you will continue to get.

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Libertarian Toker Reviewed by Libertarian Toker on . Should We Re-Legalize Drugs? Should We Re-Legalize Drugs? http://www.lp.org/issues/relegalize.html Libertarians, like most Americans, demand to be safe at home and on the streets. Libertarians would like all Americans to be healthy and free of drug dependence. But drug laws don't help, they make things worse. The professional politicians scramble to make names for themselves as tough anti-drug warriors, while the experts agree that the "war on drugs" has been lost, and could never be won. The tragic victims of Rating: 5