Your argument is horrible.
First, don't try to gain sympathy for a cause dealing with drugs such as weed, and then look down on other drugs like heroine or coke.
You want us to give you sympathy but, you look down on other drugs, it is disgusting.
Second, if coke and heroine were legal they would not cause as many problems as they do.
If you remember prohibition, alcohol was illegal and *MORE* people did it. The problem escalated, crime escalated and it was horrible.
If heroine was legalized, it would be far safer than even alcohol.
Right now, heroine ruins lives for the following reasons.
A. Addicts are looked down upon.
B. Drugs are more expensive because, they are illegal.
C. There is no standard for purity, you can't tell how much what has been cut and re cut.
Right now because heroine is illegal, there is very low supply meaning prices are way higher than they would ever be if it was legal. If it was legalized, companies could sell heroine legally which means companies are going to compete. Competition drives down prices.
If heroine was affordable people would not go bankrupt paying for it and could lead normal lives. They would not have to worry about lapsing into withdrawl because they can't afford it, or when and where to get their next hit.
You would be surprised how much time is spent just trying to make sure you have enough to prevent withdrawls.
Next, Everyone has an addiction, most are legal. Some people are addicted to video games, others are addicted to work. People literaly ruin their lives with legal addictions. Most people however, balance life out just fine.
However, no don't get on a soap box for your cause and your cause alone. If you want to get on a soap box, you can't complain about being judged, and then judge other people. That is not the way to go about it.
Alcohol was illegal at one point in time too. Look at how that ended. Crime escalated exponentially.
The one difference between illegal drugs now and alcohol, is enough people did alcohol so it became legal again.
If we really want to stop the illegal drug trade, only option is to legalize it.
Think about *how* much money is wasted on swat teams/paramilitary forces.
Honestly we go on about how free speech is our most basic right.
I disagree, Control over our bodies is the most basic right.
I should have the ability to ingest whatever I want but, legally I don't have the rights to my own body anymore :/.
And don't give me any line of crap about how people "endanger others" on drugs. Alcohol brings out more raw emotions than any other drug out there. People are more dangerous on alcohol than heroine.(assuming the same conditions). And alcohol is legal. If people endanger others, handle it on a case by case basis don't make all drugs illegal.
Final note. Drug dealers want drugs to be illegal. As long as drugs are illegal, there is a very low supply and a very high demand. So they can charge whatever they want.
Should we really vote with the drug dealers?
If people can live respectable lives on alcohol, there is no reason anyone should be judged for any other drug they do.
I'm tired of how our entire mind set is to descriminate against "drug addicts" alcohol IS a drug. But, we call them "alcoholics" not "addicts".