Pot in America

[Taem]

But thats where we already are, except you remove a small handful of drugs from the list of evil ones.

Look at something like crystal meth. Its bad, it messes people up. However, since its illegal to make, the ones making it are people who failed high school chemistry, so they poison the neighbors with the fumes, dispose of a variety of harmful chemicals in inappropriate ways, and in a lot of cases blow up or burn down their house/trailer/apartment. There needs to be a way to reduce the collateral damage.

I totally agree with what you are saying. I incorrectly kept part of my post I meant to delete, which of course is the part everyone is commenting on, so please check out my revision. As to what you are saying, I have mixed feelings on this. Like I said in my edit, I think chemically refined drugs need to be monitored so the government can step in and potentially stop them completely if they prove to be too disruptive to society as a whole. But on the other hand, if everything seems to go smoothly, then the government can set up regulations to make sure there is no to less collateral damage, and that legitimate businesses (who pay taxes) instead of violent, underground mafia enforcers run the drug market.