Yes. Legalize everything. Remove the restrictions.
Once the initial die-off is over, things will settle down.
The herd needs thinning anyway.

Well, I heard Portugal is giving it a try.

Legalize and regulate all drugs.

Addendum: Everyone has probably heard that marijuana is legal in Colorado, but what you probably haven’t heard about is how the crime rates in that state have sharply increased, how child protective services has been swamped with cases and how graduation rates have plummeted.

You haven’t heard about those things because they didn’t happen.

Marijuana would be the only one. Don't know if any medicinal benefits for Hashish. Coke and heroin can damage your heart-no.

Yes, tax them. Turn the taxed money around help those that want help. Give the money to schools help educate people more about addiction and the ramifications of drugs.

Yes they should

Look at Portugal. I know it's a much much much smaller country, but still, it's food for thought. [mic.com]

As an adult, I have liberty, meaning: I own myself. I can do to myself whatever I want. This includes taking drugs of any kind. Drug laws tell us that the government knows what is better for us than us. This comes straight from Judeo- Christian paternalism. All drug laws are morally suspect. If you sit on a jury in a drug case that does not involve minors, consider jury nullification. Google it.

Make it all legal, easily available with same restrictions as tobacco and alcohol and supplied by manufacturers with guaranteed purity.

There will be an initial die off of Darwin Award candidates and then the rest will stop as it is no longer trendy. All the crime related to gaining money for next hit will be gone. All those shitty little bastard dealers destroying everyones neighbourhood will be gone. All the hellish places around the world controlled by viscious cartels will become better places to live.

Addicted people can be helped a lot easier.

Better life for those of us not stupid and a better life for the stupid.

Yes. The most destructive drug by far is alcohol. We know how prohibition worked out. It turned the Mafia into the giant it became. It is the same with drug cartels. We have a way of creating much more crime with our archaic drug laws, and it costs the tax payers a whole lot more money than if we handled it ad a health issue for people who find themselves addicted.

Yes.

Legalize, tax, and regulate.

I guess legalize it. Most people won't use it as much if it is legal.

If we are actually free individuals yes. We are not, not even close.

There is a way to legalise it So, that in 2 generation there will be no users.

My quick answer is yes to all drugs that can be foraged, grown or transformed easily at home. When you really think about it, mind altering drugs are only expensive because of the underground illegal trade of it. Most source plants for drugs are as cheap as growing your own fruits and vegetables even cheaper when the material can be foraged. I would agree that the practice of chewing coca leaves or steeping it as tea should be legal but not a meth-lab for example. According to OP examples above canabis can be legal but not pure cocaine or heroin according to the logic I propose. Opium would be legal in it's raw resin form though.

Yes. Yes, they should. A lot of the crime that results because of drugs stem directly from their illegality. But it'll never happen because too many republicans hate black and brown people too much.

Yes, they should. Other countries that have done it have lower use. Y'all can Google it if you want to know more.

Yes. Legalize, tax, and regulate. This would drastically decrease the opioid epidemic, it would make the drug cartels almost powerless (since the end of prohibition finally crippled the influence of the mafia, which had risen to power in the 1920s as a result of prohibition), and we need to release and pardon all non-violent drug "offenders" (our prison population would dramatically decrease overnight, especially our minority prison population). Despite the fact that black people and white people use drugs at the same rate (with some studies indicating that white people use drugs at a slightly higher rate), black people are 40% more likely to be locked up for the same drug "crime".

In 2001, Portugal simply decriminalized all drugs, and their deaths from opioids have DRASTICALLY decreased, crime has gone down significantly, and the people who are addicted (I believe it's only about 10-15% of drug users who are actually addicts, according to neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart, who specializes in drug addiction) can receive medical treatment instead of harsh punishment.

We obviously need to legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana (a substance FAR less dangerous than alcoholic beverages), since that would be such a huge boost to our economy and would create so many jobs. For harder drugs, we need to legalize, tax, and regulate them so people will be able to know their limits with them, just like most people who drink know their alcohol limits. This also kills the black market for drugs, in which a lot of people don't know what they're doing when they make the drugs. With regulated drugs, these would be drugs made by chemists and other scientists (i.e., people who actually know what they're doing); for instance, we would make certain that heroin isn't laced with phentanyl (the stuff in unregulated heroin that causes so many users to overdose and die). We obviously wouldn't have the flesh-eating drug krokodil or crystal meth being available.

And for the people who ARE addicted, we should treat the addiction like a medical issue and treat those people with compassion instead of punishment. Switzerland did harm reduction during their heroin epidemic in the 80s. In the FREE harm-reduction centers, heroin addicts were given warm showers, nice beds, safe injection rooms, clean needles, were supplied with regulated heroin of the highest quality, made by people who actually knew what they were doing, and had 24/7 medical supervision to help them out in case anything bad happened; and social workers helped them find housing and deal with other problems.

The results? A sharp drop in drug-related crimes, HIV rates have dropped drastically, deaths from heroin drug overdoses have gone down by 50%, 2/3 of the people who have received medical treatment and compassion have been able to have regular jobs after treatment, since they can actually focus on getting better instead of financing their addictions, and drug-related street sex work has dramatically decreased.

We've wasted over 1 TRILLION DOLLARS on our useless, disastrous War on Drugs, and we've locked up way too many people (particularly minorities) for things that shouldn't be crimes. More people use drugs now than they did before the War on Drugs had begun. The aforementioned methods employed by Portugal and Switzerland, along with what I'd do, are far cheaper, would make us more money, they treat people who need help with compassion and dignity, and they actually work, rather than creating more problems. Instead of bulldozing human rights and causing abject misery, we should move on to something far better.

*THESE VIDEOS ON LEGALIZING/DECRIMINALIZING DRUGS ARE AMAZING AND HIGHLY INFORMATIVE

Not the addictive drugs.

Yes and addiction treated as a mental health issue . Real marijuana cocaine and opium should be available to those that need it . The DEA should be disbanded and disgraced for all the hardship they have caused across the world, as well pharmaceutical companies should be prosecuted for their complicity in this war on drugs [the poor and average people]

I think all drugs should be decriminalized, as they did in Portugal, with such positive results.

No.
Maybe safe ones decriminalised.
Heroin, meth and such, should we make it easier for people to get? Give the impression that it is not so bad?

We just have a world of screwed up people
that choose drugs. They choose to destroy themselves and others. So therefore make themselves mental. Have at it and destroy yourself.

I think the argument could be made that legalization would reduce the violence associated with the underground market. It would certainly reduce the number of prisoners incarcerated. Would be safer for users and lower the OD rate.Treatment for addicts would be more available and children would benefit most by having healthier more involved parents because use could be monitored by registry. Too many positives to discount this position