[ATLian]

Is it worth spending the billions of dollars on drug war?

Absolutely not. They can be better spent on more urgent areas. Why spend $150,000 to imprison for 6 months a man who was smoking some weed by himself in his house. How was anyone harmed by that?



Let's say alcohol trade was legalized. A jamaa can walk into any convenient store, show ID and walk out with some alcohol. Eventually, this jamaa gets addicted to alcohol. Alcohol begins to take a toll on his body and then his productivity at jobo reduces. He eventually gets fired. Now with no source of income, he relies on his buddies to satisfy his dangerous addiction. Eventually his buddies will kataa. (Now if his buddies are also alcohol addicts, that even compounds the problem). What happens next? The probable option is to resort to criminal activity. He'll either try to break into the convenient stores to steal alcohol ama steal money to buy alcohol. He eventually ends up in jail.

I've replaced drugs and heroine in your above post with alcohol.

In the prohibition era, the argument you used above is the same that was used by those against legalizing alcohol.

Fast forward to today, and see how things are. of course there are some people who are messed up coz of alcohol, but they are a tiny minority. It's a fact that most people do what they are meant to do - go to work, school, etc - despite alcohol being legal and available all over.

See where your argument fails.

BTW the people who are most opposed to the legalizing of the drug trade are - surprise - the dealers. They know that a legalized drug trade would slash their profit margins from huko 13,000% for cocaine to nothing.


One last question since you're very against legalizing of drugs. Assume kesho when chilling in your backyard, you realize that licking the bark of the tree in your yard can make you as high as a kite. Are you then suggesting that you would be OK with the government immediately making licking of those trees illegal?