The gang violence exists precisely because these drugs are black market substances, making your argument that this is a good reason for their continued illegali

The gang violence exists precisely because these drugs are black market substances, making your argument that this is a good reason for their continued illegality as absurd as it's always been when put forth by lawmakers. Also: >but for heroin and meth I think stopping production and importation is an important step to fixing things. Yes, exactly what authorities worldwide have invested untold billions in doing since decades ago to such effective, violence-reducing, harm reducing results... The drug wars are an unmitigated idiocy and always have been, for ALL drugs. Worse things than these are legal and though not perfectly managed or free of harm, much less harmful than the entire shitshow that anti-drug crusades have produced. How can people not see this after 50 years of drug war disasters and immense financial, social and legal losses?