THE SPREAD OF AIDS

If all recreational drugs were re-legalised and sold in regulated
business establishments for pennies per dose, crime would decline dramatically.

And I believe that our overall hard drug usage rates would decline
substantially. Drug dealers as we know them today would disappear for
economic reasons. The first time almost all drug users use a
particular drug, they don't buy it; either a friend or dealer gives
it to them. Most retail drug dealers are addicts themselves. They
sell drugs to finance their own habit and recruit new users by
offering free samples. With the end of prohibition, this practice would end.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Arizona, USA