Though am what would be considered a conservative literal-grammatical-historical interpreter of God's Autobiography (the Bible), I have to agree with Dr. Adaljah's well-written stance on the legalization of drugs. Though I think he defended his position quite well, I would like to add a very lucid demonstration of criminal organizations forming and then having to move into other non-legal means of gaining money and that is the mafia before prohibition and the mafia after prohibition.

Before prohibition, they mainly were local thugs who extorted money out of local store owners et. al., but after prohibition, the mafia was far more organized and also on a national level. By outlawing alcohol, "murder incorporated" found a new itch to scratch as there was no way people were going to quit drinking and likewise, there is no way one person can force another to make a moral decision about drugs! When prohibition was repealed, the mafia turned to making money from drugs and much more than they could from running alcohol!

Now the street gangs have by the hundreds, have turned into monstrous mafias and the last thing they would want, is for a drug use/abuser to be able to walk into a state controlled store and purchase the drugs they charge for much! There is no one bit of doubt, that if you had state controlled outlets for user/abusers of drugs, that these multiple mafias would have no source of income and even the street gangs would decrease to almost nothing!

It is something to think seriously about as no-one can legislate morality, but we can at least have an effect on what the gangs alone now control and that is drugs!