make all drugs legal, and make people take personal responsibility for their actions. Legalizing drugs would rid the country of all drug related crime. People wouldn't buy from dealers cause they could get it at CVS for much cheaper, and it would free space in prisons for people who have done real crimes. If a person wants to shoot up crack, let him. Don't make american taxpayers pay for his rehab in prison.

There are so many legal drugs available...why would you need illegal drugs?

As long as there are buyers out there and huge money to be made, drug trafficking can not be stopped. The only way to solve the problem is through education. People should be taught as early as the grade school about the dangers of illegal drugs. Drug traffic will dry up if there's no buyer.

I'm going to start this response with a side note: I do not believe the American Gov. has been successful in the war on drugs. I also believe that as long as there are politicians and other persons of high rank that dabble in illegal backroom deals, our doors will always be wide open for drugs to come in and flourish. I think we should tighten the regulations on drugs so tight that drugs can no longer breathe and die. That's just me, as I think there is nothing positive to be gained from illegal drugs. Drug destroy lives, families, kill, drive people to despicable acts, and leave a path of destruction behind them that often cannot be remedied or remediated. That's just my stance on illegal drugs. Now, as for prescription drugs, i.e. painkillers, tranquilizers, opiates of all varieties, I think the gov. needs to restrict those even more than they do now. It's a damned shame when you've got a viable human being become addicted to pain killers and become the victim of a pain clinic or methadone clinic. The bottom line is, as long as humans have been on earth, they have been finding substances to alter their experience. One could say, "well legalize and just let folks ruin their own lives", but the sad truth is that the destruction of drugs never just touches the person who ingests them. The families often suffer from abuse and neglect. The community suffers through higher health care costs, more people on disability, and public safety issues. Knowing that drugs can destroy the very essence of a human being and negatively impact all those that come in contact with ther person, why on earth wouldn't we want to try to make things safer for all.

tighten them. Illegal drugs have destroyed some many lives and wasted so much potiential. Just think of all the millions of people who have become addicted to illegal drugs, alot of them don't have jobs. If nobody had done drugs, think of how many more scientists, firefighters, school teachers, ect... there might be. Drugs just don't affect the user obviously. Think of all the kids whose parents aren't there for them all the time because they are too busy getting high. Drugs kill too many people for us to just let them roam free.

Loosen. We've spent billions upon billions of dollars on this so-called "War on Drugs",and they're readily available. Just like Prohibition. There will always be folks who want to get High. Make them available to the idiots who want them, starve Black Marketeers, and tax the damned things. Less money being spent, and money going into the coffers. But those who continue to make money off of the "War" will fight such tooth and nail.