I tend to think the answer is "yes," but I also think that the benefits of legalization would outweigh the increased number of addicts.

Natural selection, yo.

So you are saying if alcohol was illegal there would be less alcoholics?

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles I tend to think the answer is "yes," but I also think that the benefits of legalization would outweigh the increased number of addicts.

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Originally posted by nchs09 So you are saying if alcohol was illegal there would be less alcoholics?

No, not necessarily.

But this is a somewhat different question, because alcohol has long been considered socially acceptable, part of normal rituals of relaxation and celebration, and was still considered to be such by huge numbers of people during Prohibition; this is not the case for most drugs that are currently illegal.

If drugs were legal, would there be more addicts?

LOL YES

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I might be wrong but don't the Dutch have less of a drug problem than we do in the US?

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The real question is whether or not those addictions are more or less problematic once drugs are legalized.

Case in point, there have been at least a few instances where doctors and/or others who have regular access to opiates and are physically addicted where literally no one knew until after the individual had either died or decided to dry out of their own volition.

Also, the Netherlands is a good example of what happens in a population once marijuana is legalized - a dramatic decrease in those who use marijuana (especially compared to the U.S. - the number is something like ~25% American adults have smoked marijuana while ~10% of the Dutch population has).

In general, I think all signs point to legalization as a better way to control drug use than something that will have everyone instantly dropping everything to get high.

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Not if all that wasted 'drug war' money was reinvested in education.

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Well i dont think there would be more addcits. If heroin was legal, i wouldnt go out and buy some just because it is legal. I would imagine most people would not either.

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All I know is, if it's legal to buy Bacardi 151, MDMA, Mushrooms, Acid, Weed, Coke should all be legal as well.

I want those 8 hours of my life back from my 18th birthday.

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Originally posted by Zild I might be wrong but don't the Dutch have less of a drug problem than we do in the US?

Well, it is true that marijuana is more or less de facto "legal" in the Netherlands, but pot rarely becomes a "problem drug" for anyone, at least not to the extent that things like cocaine and heroin do.

I was thinking mostly of substances that are more physically addicting. I have no knowledge of the extent of heroin or cocaine addiction in the Netherlands or how it compares to the U.S.