... drugs that have been arbitrarily made illegal. How can you justify that a person with 200 pounds of a plant is the same in the eyes of the law as a person that has killed someone? You then put this person in our "correctional" system wasting thousands of dollars (of your and my money) per inmate? This surely seems irrational. Drugs are very expensive because they are, simply, illegal. Their procurement through the use of the underground economy fuels crime and violence, which could be largely eliminated if organized crime did not have a monopoly and the free enterprise system, could control the market. Potency regulated by licensed drug companies would prevent unusually pure substances from causing accidental overdose. There is an epidemic of unnecessary deaths from this cause. This problem is exacerbated by the fear users and bystanders have of seeking a highly effective antidote for drug poisoning that ...

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