Yew. Making it legal and highly regulated, would greatly reduce overdoses and inadvertent poisonings from the crap the y cut the drugs with. People would know what they are buying is actually what the seller says it is, and well regulated also means they will get an accurate dosage.

well, let's face it a shit load needs to change more than drug dealing. anyway when things are legal people can still be drug dealers like in chemists. when its illegal no one apart from maybe the last seller gives a fuck. you're never going to please everyone. people sell booze with no health warning or laws apart from age. I just finished a book about a Victorian hangman called Berry. he never hung a criminal that was not a drinker. look at the shit booze causes or guns in America.

I think legalization would only make things better if drugs are highly regulated and taxed. Regulated to insure safety and known dosage. Taxed to help pay for the costs of rehab.

I think if drugs were legal, then the government shoudl encourage the development of recreational drugs which are not (at least physically) addictive. I do not believe psycholigcal addictions could be avoided.

It's a complicated issue. I expect a vast difference in ideas and views, which may help some readers get a slightly better handle on all the issues involved by beign introduced to new ideas.

I was last in Lisboa and Coimbra University back in college. Back then they smoked weed and hashish-no coke. 40 yrs ago LOL.

In the U.S., whether or nto peopel realize it, our policies are always geared towards making profits more than they are geared towards improving life quality of dealing with problems. When thee is a problem the American right wing doesn't want to solve the problem so much as figure out how they can make money off of the problem, and keep the problem in place so they keep making money off of it.

The "war on drugs" was not really geared to stop drug traffic, so much as it was to be sure that the privatized prison system made huge profits. End the drug problem and those profits go away. So, the fiht wing has no interest in really actually ending he drug problem. Private prisons are big political contributors to the right wing.