Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years
In these kinds of discussions about marijuana I often see people supporting the legalization of all drugs (see current top post in this thread). As someone who disagrees with this stance (but has very little personal experience with drugs and is probably misinformed about some of these things), could someone give counter-arguments for my concerns? I&#x27;d like to better understand the point of view that all drugs should be legal instead of a very specific subset of &quot;safe&quot; drugs. (I do think that marijuana should be legalized)<p>1. It&#x27;s been medically shown that some drugs cause aggressive and violent behavior. Why should we allow an increase in that kind of behavior if it could be largely prevented as it is now?<p>2. If all drugs become legalized, what&#x27;s to prevent addiction to certain drugs sweeping across an entire population and devastating productivity? If drugs are more accessible it seems likely that more people would experiment with and become addicted to more debilitating drugs.<p>3. It seems like whether drugs are legal or not, if you get addicted to some types of drugs you become effectively unable to earn an income. Even if legalizing drugs reduces the prices, aren&#x27;t the people addicted to them still going to commit crimes to make the money they need since they still can&#x27;t work normal jobs?