How about legalizing now illegal drugs?

Question by [email protected]: How about legalizing now illegal drugs?
What are the negative or positive effects of drug legalization?
Doesn’t this compare with the legal use of alcohol, considering the disaster that prohibition was? How about the underground economy caused by the illegal funds changing hands and not taxed. (“The Fair Tax” would address the problem of untaxed income from illegal sales of drugs).

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Answer by mspriveye
The mob and the crooked cops that work with them would lose a fortune, it would totally screw up the economy. Who would fill up all those nasty empty jails?

Answer by mike
Obviously you cannot legalize hardcore drugs like crack, meth, and other highly addictive drugs, but why not marijuana all it is is a high just like alchohal. It would take a lot of people out of our prisons for dumb drugs that don’t do anything worse than things that u can buy at a bar.

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