> Most people probably want a drug policy that leads to a) fewer dead people and b) fewer addicts and c) reduced crime. It's entirely unclear if full legalisat

> Most people probably want a drug policy that leads to a) fewer dead people and b) fewer addicts and c) reduced crime. It's entirely unclear if full legalisation full will have that effect. Maybe it will, or maybe it will have disastrous effects. It's going to be one hell of an experiment. You casually dismiss people as "clutching pearls", but that's far too easy, especially when a number of limited experiments have made things worse rather than better. "If we move in this direction it first gets worse and then gets better" is possible, but is going to need a (much) deeper analysis to be convincing. But no one really knows what will happen. We can guess, but that's all they are: guesses.