How many drug addict do you really know? I can't help notice you are again using what you have been told. Told to you by more people that have little first hand info. Like it or not people that want to do drugs will, if they are legal or not. So, basicly you think that we should continue to give the hardcore drug dealers a way to ply their trade. Organized crime and the multi-billion dollar drug smuggling industry would be shut down if drugs were legal. Holland has legal everything and the crime rate dropped big time since they went legal. I don't do any heavy drugs so don't start calling names again. I just think that alot more is involved than what you have considered. I repeat- drug addicts will do drugs no matter if they are legal or not. By legalizing it would bring the price down(like in Amsterdam) and it would enable the already addicted people to get drugs cheaper. Do you realize this would take away thier need to commit crimes against innocent people(like Amsterdam), stop the real criminals from selling it, and get the US out of debt? Proper education is the key to stopping future generations from doing drugs. Legalizing would only enable educators to be honest about all of the drugs. Some people try drugs for the thrill of doing something illegal. Eventually people would see how messed up the addicts are, and drug use would go down.
Also, some drug addicts do want treatment. There would not be such a high population of addicts in volunteer rehabs if what you said were true.
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http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/reinarman.dutch.html

U.S. drug warriors tend to lump all illicit drugs together, as if all were equally dangerous and addictive. Dutch drug policy makes pragmatic distinctions based on relative risks. When U.S. officials are confronted by scientific evidence showing marijuana to be among the least risky drugs, they fall back on the claim that it is a "stepping stone" to hard drugs. But here, too, the evidence from Dutch surveys is heresy: despite lawful availability, the majority of Dutch people never try marijuana, and most who do try it don't continue to use even marijuana very often, much less harder drugs.

In short, the Dutch facts destroy the Drug Czar's core claims. Those who have built their careers in the U.S. drug control complex fear Dutch drug policy like the Catholic Church feared Gallileo: they must believe the Dutch model is a disaster, for if it is not their whole cosmology shatters.

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I doubt you will take the time to go check out this link muchless educate yourself by reading the whole thing, so to summarize, Legal drugs lead to less drug addicts, and the country would have less crime. If drug addict are going to do drugs anyway, what would be wrong with legalization?