Originally Posted By: canvasback
....Tell me how effective overall and cost effective specifically banning pot and other recreational drugs have been. Seems to me we've wasted a bunch of money, anyone who wanted to do them does them and we have created, by allowing the black market to exist, the richest, most powerful criminal organizations in history.

Yeah, that's been real good policy. LOL

I'd agree, it's a laugher. But, not at all because of the banning itself, but the will to enforce the ban. Everyone, or nearly, speeds, but there're no serious calls to throw out speed limits. While it may not seem so, a speed limit sign is a deterrent and nothing says oh crap like seeing blue lights in the rear view mirror. Like I mentioned, I can completely understand the libertarian point of view, but the real lol is that this recreational drug use is victimless.