Prohibition never works. Your proposal would have the opposite effect. Making drugs more difficult and dangerous to obtain increases the price. Higher prices means losers with no education or morals will be incentivized to get involved. The allure of money outweighs the potential consequence of prison time (free food and shelter). If drugs were legalized and controlled along the lines of alcohol and tobacco, then the related crimes would pretty much disappear. When was the last time someone was killed over a pack of cigarettes or burglariesd for beer money? Locking people up over drugs just creates a job opening for another thug.

A pack of cigarrettes is in no comparison to crack-cocaine and drugs. When I speak of "crack" I mean any type of mind altering, body dependent drug. Your brain becomes chemically dependent on it the first few times of using it. You steal for it because your body HAS TO HAVE IT to function. You're absolutely right, you never hear of someone getting shot over a pack of cigarrettes, unless they're on drugs. Last month, in Fairmont a woman was selling her son's body and for what, it wasn't cigs or beer, it was drugs. Could you imagine sitting at a dinner table and your mom or dad sitting across the table smoking a crack pipe or snorting a line at sunday dinner? The future generations would all be stoners and burnouts. It would be a sad, sad world. But like I said, it's just my opinion. You don't know what it's like till you've seen it yourself.

Nicotine and alcohol are addictive substances. They are drugs. They are legal.

Study the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920's. Did it stop people from drinking? No. Did the cost of alcohol, crime, and violence increase? Yes. The mob got involved with bootlegging alcohol because prohibition made it a profitable business (booze wasn't cheap because the supply had diminished). Gangsters killed each other for control of the underground alcohol market.

Replace the word 'alcohol' above with any drug, and the results are the same. People kill and steal over drugs not just because they are craving a fix. It's because they are craving a fix and the drugs cost more money than they have. Drug dealers kill each other because they can't use the legal system to settle disputes. Legalizing drugs would increase the supply and availability, and the price would come down. They would be as affordable as tobacco and alcohol, and people wouldn't have to steal and kill to get them. Distributors wouldn't be some shady guy on the corner, but legitimate registered businesses. Courts could settle disputes instead of weapons. There should still be restrictions as with alcohol such as being over 21 to purchase and laws against driving or being in public while intoxicated.

Prohibition doesn't work. You will never get rid of what you are trying to restrict, and you'll only create more problems by trying.

Well sorry to burst all you all save the world/all races are equal individual's bubble.. When Grant was arrested by LPD... He was not on "his or their" side of town and he was in a vehicle with 43 other individuals which was not his kind of people. You better call the Calvary... Then again...I'm pretty sure there is explanation such as he was the chauffeur..NO she was driving... Maybe he is the yard guy/maintenance man... NO I am not believing that neither since he is a drug dealer. .oh yeah.."he kidnapped us, you found the gun, he used...be we would never be with people from their side of town". NO ... Because they filed a report on being robbed together... I give up... Maybe he should just stay away from those people from the other side of town because they ALL are such bad people... This is how the posts are starting to sound every day...

Correction should be 3 other individuals... Not 43...

This comment and rule's comment are typical ideologies that continues to destroy this county. My job has allowed to me see this entire county. Blacks are not responsible for the majority of the crimes in this county... There are just as many drug dealelrs and violent criminals from other races. All blacks does not have illegitimate children who receive government assistance. You fail to look a man in the eye because you don't want them to see the real you. I often read Percikution comments about look at the eyes... I agree with him because the eye is the way to the inner person. As a saved, self reliant, intelligent, and educated black man which does need government assistance or your reluctance to look me in the eye... I do consider your comments ludicrous. Every article that is posted the same individuals throw the race card post without the article having anything to do with race. It is obvious that he is a black male. But he is not the poster child for every black man! The sad part is people like you make these comment but are the same who have children in secret relationship with blacks... This article or your post does not anger me... It actually fuels me to discredit your idiotic views of blacks. All blacks are not supporters of the NAACP/black caucus and their cause. That like me saying all whites are KKK members or supporters of the lumber tribal committee... Which is totally false. I have White and Indian friends, (not 5, 6, or a specific count) whic are GREAT individuals. I would never judge them based on others actions. Have a blessed life.