Drawing a line on what kind of drugs to legalize will invariably highlight the damage hard drugs cause. The counter argument is the sheer number of deaths cause

Drawing a line on what kind of drugs to legalize will invariably highlight the damage hard drugs cause. The counter argument is the sheer number of deaths caused by the high profit margins of drug trading: 50,000 in 6 years in Mexico alone.[1] When you add the financial cost of the war on drugs to this kind of death toll, it is entirely possible that the death toll from legalized drug consumption (and the violence that sometimes accompanies it) may be far less. [1] http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/mexicos-drug-war-50-000-dead-in-6-years/100299/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/mexicos-drug-war-...