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By: Kirk Muse

Kirk Muse — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:32:24 +0000

If all types of recreational drugs were re-legalized and sold in regulated, controlled and taxed business establishments for pennies per
dose, our overall crime rate would decline dramatically and our public safety would increase substantially.

And, I believe, that our overall drug usage rates would decline substantially. That’s because drug dealers as we know them today would disappear for economic reasons.

The first time almost all drug users use a particular drug, they don’t buy it — either a friend or drug dealer gives it to them.

Most retail drug dealers of hard drugs are addicts themselves. They sell drugs to finance their own drug habit and recruit new users by offering free samples to potential customers. With the end of drug prohibition this practice would end.

By: AT QB

AT QB — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:15:16 +0000

Doug,
Not that I disagree with your point, but the posession and dealing of class C drugs is still punishable as a criminal offense in the UK according to this website.

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/drugs/drugs-law/Class-a-b-c/

Therefore, this statement over-states your point:
“Well, if Britain’s experience with the decriminalization is any indication, they’ve got it completely wrong:”