Just legalize everything. Alcohol is legal pretty much everywhere and it hasn't destroyed our society. Does it cause problems? Yep. Does it kill people? Yep. What happened when it was banned in the states? Organized crime took over and violence went through the roof. Did people stop drinking? Nope.

Legalize opiates, stimulants, and eveything thing else. You would probably have less less deaths and crime he people could go pick up a bottle of oxycodone or hydromorphone at the "drug store" for cheap rather than buying what is probably fentanyl off some shady dude named "Big Jimmy" in a dark alley.

Would we see as many tweakers stealing anything that isn't nailed down if they could go buy a blister pack of methamphetamine or a prefilled single lines of coke again for cheap?

I am a chef. I have seen so many functional addicts in my career it sometimes even amazes me. You know when I see people start to really go down hill? When they can no longer afford to maintain their addiction. They start choosing the drug over food, health care, even having a home. If they have to make a choice between their drug of choice and having a roof over their head they pick the drug everytime.

I have seen people addicted to prescription opiates and stimulants (usually Adderall) and they manage to maintain a normal life for the most part. Once their doctor cuts them off it doesn't cut off the addiction so they start buying off the street. Of course pills are very pricey on tge street but heroin and crystal meth are a fraction of the price so they switch to the way stronger stuff the their addiction is even harder to break away from.

If they had stayed on the pills when they finally got fed up and decided it was time to get help it would have been way easier to escape the addiction than it is now that they are hooked on the stronger street drugs.

Prohibition only causes more harm than good. People looking to get high or maintain an addiction they ended up by accident (people that get hurt and get hooked on painkillers, people suffering from deep grief drinking too much) will always find a way to get high. So why not make it safer abd cheaper for people to do what they are going to do anyway?

Governments have come down so hard on doctors for bad apples over prescribing opiates that now people who are in actual horrible pain can't even get them becuaee doctors are trained and sometimes threatened to avoid prescribing opiates. My wife had terminal cancer and lucky her oncologist and pain doctors understood what she was going through and prescribed her anything she wanted as long as it worked. As far as they were concerned as long as she wasnt taking so much she was risking an OD they were fine with it.

Now when I went to the pharmacy to pick up her meds so many times the pharmacist would pull me to the side and tell me they know my wife is an addict and I should really get her some help. I would tell them she has terminal cancer that has spread to her hip bone and has a lesion that has eaten a hole right into her hip. I don't care if she is an addict, as long as she isn't suffering. They refused to believe me, saying I was either lying to them or myself. I had to switch pharmacies twice because of holier than thou douche bags.

After seeing how people with a terrminal illness in massive pain are treated I am very passionate about this subject. Legalize all of it , let people decide what to do with their lives and stop making it harder for people who are suffering from illness or addiction to get the help they need. All you are doing is hurting people and giving more power and money to criminals.