Except in your case users and "traders or producers" would end up being the same people. If you can't buy x drug but can google how to make it, its not a short

Except in your case users and "traders or producers" would end up being the same people. If you can't buy x drug but can google how to make it, its not a short step to cooking the drug and selling your excess to others. When you're an addict you're probably not holding down a real job so selling becomes very tempting. I believe most dealers are users/addicts themselves now with our current policies, so going after the supply chain will only make this worse. >and that includes alcohol by the way We already tried making the production of alcohol illegal and it led to a lot of poisonings and blindness. I think my approach is still superior. If we legalize the LEAST harmful of illegal recreation drugs, then there will be a harm reduction option for people who would otherwise do harder drugs. You can hunt down meth in the ghetto or go to the store and get high on pot. I imagine most will do the latter. The serious drug users in my life actually never got off drugs. They just got on safer drugs like pot. The "legalize everything" crowd still makes no sense.