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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3302484" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Which would go away if people took personal responsibility and didn't do drugs.  But they're going to do them anyways.  So if you remove prohibition you'll still have people doing drugs that are not only harmful to themselves but to others too, as well as the overall costs of lost productivity.  Making it tough to get also limits it's spread.  How many more people are you willing to sacrifice to easily obtained drugs in order to have the freedom to do whatever you want?  You may eliminate the cartels but you'll still have people committing crime to get the money.  Hard drug addicts aren't going to hold down a steady job for long, they'll still need their fix.  It's not our job to supply that to them.  If that's your solution you're saying the drug addict has more rights than the taxpayer.</p></blockquote><p></p>