Talk politics.

And sidewalk potato chip vendors. The humanity.

Yup - people will kill, steal, lose their teeth, their families and their dignity for their addictions.

And that's just for Big Macs!

And because my 4) analogy probably wasn't too clear, I constantly hear people saying "see a corrupt cop made some money off of drug sales! Oh oh mah gawd oh we need to legalize everything. Its the only thing to do"

As I recall, the arms deal with Iran was also about getting hostages from Iran, and that the CIA had another operation to get money for its Nicaragua operations by selling drugs in America.

^What a_new_machine said.

Wha?

Prohibition of alcohol led to the creation of exceptionally powerful criminal organisations who still have an impact on our society today. Given that there is no evidence to suggest that legalisation would increase drug use, and some evidence to suggest that it will decrease drug use, essentially what you're arguing is that you would rather a world of drug cartels to one of corporations. Now, I'm no fan of corporations, but they are better than a drug cartel. To suggest that legalising drugs would bring more problems completely ignores all the evidence and research that surrounds this issue. It is, quite simply, an argument that can only be supported by vested interests or those who wish to legislate other peoples' morality. It's like prostitution; legalise it and the vast majority of problems associated with it go away. Our hookers are unionised and work in safe, secure surrounds, do you think they have the problems with pimps that illegal hookers have? Also, given that our hookers tend to be in brothels and not on the streets, who do you think has the worse social problems?