Why then don;t they start giving stiff convictions to drug users to make them think the cost is too high to commit the supposedly "victemless crime" they are committing. I feel that if you chose to buy illegal drugs, you are kowingly committing accessory to murder by knwoing what the drug kingpins, and on down the line to the sellers in the stereet have to do to be able to supply you with your ill begotten booty! You all here know that every druggie in the world knows what those who sell them the drugs are capable of and therefore accesories to the crimes committed byt the sellers of said drugs.
The same could be said of those who drank alcohol in spite of Prohibition -- that they were responsible for fueling the violence committed by people like Al Capone. Of course, now that alcohol is legal, there are no longer gigantic profits to be made from its sale on the black market. So the violence and corruption associated with alcohol prohibition have become nonexistent. However, some damage was done to our rights because of Prohibition that lasts to this day: namely, the NFA of 1934.
Now we have a slightly different kind of prohibition: drug prohibition. The substances are different, but the problems the laws cause are exactly the same: violence, loss of civil/gun rights, criminals getting rich, children getting stuff pushed on them in order to get them hooked.
It's not the fault of the druggies. Though they are wasting their lives and their health (as are alcoholics), they have every right to do so, since it is
their lives and
their health to waste. The fault of all the violence, corruption, etc., lies with those who make and enforce anti-drug laws. The only such laws that should be on the books are those that make it illegal to sell to minors.
Until drugs are legalized for adult use, the violence caused by the Drug War will fuel calls for new gun control and give politicians an excuse to enact it, just as the violence caused by alcohol prohibition led to the 1934 NFA.