Drug Prohibition

Drugs should be legal.  Prohibition does not prevent use or abuse, so why should we continue to pour our tax dollars and law enforcement resources into a losing battle? 

There is no sense in prosecuting victimless crimes.  Who has the right to tell another person what they can or can't consume?  

Prohibition leads to higher prices which creates a profit incentive.  This will always lead to someone getting into the business.  By making it illegal we have taken a legitimate business and handed it over to gangs and cartels.  Actual crime usually follows.

Then we've made the average user into your average criminal.  Now that we've got a criminal instead of a citizen we have a burden.

These are just a few quick thoughts off the top of my head to get the ball rolling.  I hope we can all engage in a reasonable discussion on this subject and expand on these points and many more.  Since many people on this site are in favor of smaller government and lower taxes I would think alot of people would agree with this position, but we'll see.