Enticement

There's a lot of talk going on about the legalization of marijuana. One of the argument is that the laws don't reduce use. By criminalizing it you create and dangerous black market and the lure of a forbiden fruit. I've heard the same dribble about prostitution, porn, and long list of other vices. The arguments are all the same "you can't make it go away and try to do so just makes it worse," So why not embrace it and get some tax revenue out of it.

Our drug problems have nothing to due with their legality. This country has drug problems because it's a nation of pot heads. The problems are social not legal. We can't seem to stop murder, maybe we should legalize it with a heavy tax. How about Child pornography. No one seems to be saying we should legalize heroine or Meth. Why shouldn't people have the choice to destroy their lives with the drugs on their choice?

Because that isn't the country we want to be.

There will be drugs in this county so long as people want to use them. If we stop the cocaine people will make meth. The rule of supply and demand suggests the only way to solve these problems is the remove the demand. Just because society is starting to accept things like recreational marijuana use, doesn't make it a good idea. Our society has problems, and giving up and embracing them will not help us, but realizing the source of the problem and staying with our moral anchor will.