Heroin now officially more deadly than guns

[JustWinBaby]

(12-10-2016, 10:49 AM)xxlt Wrote: All the evidence points to legalization reducing crime, costs, and deaths related to drug use.

I don't disagree, but is it really valid comparisons?  I don't think we can just assume that how things play out in, say Portugal, is how things would play out here.  You have to consider both the culture and geography of the US - Eastern and Western Europe both drink more, and start younger, than the US...yet I believe Eastern Europe has a higher rate of alcoholism but Western Europe does not.

And we have issues with sex, which is comparatively very taboo here.  Or we could talk nation-building - think we've learned Democracy is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

So I'd be extremely cautious in assuming legalization here plays out in a positive way as it did in Portugal.  I favor decriminilzation but stop short of legalization.