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No, legalize all drugs instead

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 @9G35DZN  from Texas  agreed…3yrs3Y

Legalization doesn’t mean no regulations are rules. Alcohol has always, does, and will continue to kill and cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands a year, but look what happened during the Prohibition.

If alcohol is allowed, so should all drugs.

And all drugs, like alcohol, need to be federally regulated, and nobody under 21 should be allowed access, same age for cigarettes and alcohol.

 @9F6TBF7 from New York  disagreed…3yrs3Y

Even if we were to legalize all drugs, that would not stop the cartels. We need to deal with them by force

 @9FL54FZ from Washington  agreed…3yrs3Y

Several countries (most notably Portugal) have had significant reductions in drug overdoses and harms to society when responsibly decriminalizing hard drugs. By continuing our counter-productive war on drugs, we harm our own people and give huge piles of money to the worst international criminals and terrorists.

 @9F73S7BRepublican from Michigan  disagreed…3yrs3Y

From the borders being open in some spots that are abling illegal immigrants to cross our borders and sell their methamphetamines to people here in our country.

 @9F9H53W from Florida  disagreed…3yrs3Y

It is a stupid belief as the legalization of drugs will create worse conditions and bring the death toll higher.

 @9F8V6WH from Colorado  disagreed…3yrs3Y

legalizing drugs will allow anyone of age to use hard drugs and have their lives ruined by them. drugs are immoral and their use should NEVER be tolerated

 @9FLXV42Forward from Texas  disagreed…3yrs3Y

While I would agree in other parts of the world, the US doesn't have the infrastructure and services to support the legalization of all drugs, as shown in Oregon. Due to the fact that we cannot support a full decriminalization, we must first improve our infrastructure before legalizing it everywhere.

 @9SW6YJWLibertarian from Texas  agreed…2yrs2Y

As seen in the Prohibition era, re-legalizing alcohol helped reduce the power of the various mafias and bootlegger operations, thus this same logic can be applied to the legalization of drugs in order to cripple the power of the drug cartels.

 @B7V3WW8 from New Jersey  disagreed…8mos8MO

Drugs ruin peoples lives and drive there mental and physical health to the ground completely ruining them as a whole.

 @9FF647K from Pennsylvania  disagreed…3yrs3Y

These drugs mainly damage low income communities and plauge our country. these cartels should be treated like terrorists.

 @9FT9HDX from Arizona  agreed…3yrs3Y

Legalizing drugs makes them legitimate and allows corporations to crop up around them - just like alcohol. Remember the violence around prohibition? Seems our politicians don't. If we legalized today and let the market do it's thing, cartels would collapse.

 @9FNHZQG from North Carolina  disagreed…3yrs3Y

i think drugs should not be legal because it wouldn't benefit anyone, it would just make things worse.

 @9F8XNZ5 from California  disagreed…3yrs3Y

Fentanyl is a deadly drug which kills many people by simply touching it. We cannot have any risk of it coming near us.

 @9FDCSJP from Washington  disagreed…3yrs3Y

Legalizing all drugs would only make it easier for more people to get addicted to severe drugs, making our homeless population grow more than it already has.

 @9F5PNRW from Washington  disagreed…3yrs3Y

Legalization of drugs will turn our great country into a war zone impacting the lives of not just us but future generations to come. People are animals and once free range drugs become a thing the violence will soon follow making it unsafe for citizens to live their lives

 @9GL2RKPGreen from California  agreed…3yrs3Y

Mexico's Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels. Violence continues to rage more than a decade after the Mexican government launched a war.

 @9F5MN5L from Washington  disagreed…3yrs3Y

Don’t legalize drugs it will turn into a third world country and could potentially risk the next generation of kids and expose them to a life of crime and violence and unnecessary suffering.

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