Also, the national parks within the United States will no longer be cut down to plant hemp by the Mexican drug cartels. Also, the state and federal governments will benefit a lot, in terms of tax money.
If they legalized Marijuana and Cocaine, the cartels would be out of business.
Legalize cocaine? Yeah , I just want to see the country where this will become legal.
Pure curiosity , would you want to live there?
Why is it considered hard and why is it horrible? Because people abuse it?
Cocaine has been used medicinally, ceremonially, and recreationally since the pre-Columbian era. Pope Leo XIII carried around a flask of cocaine-laced wine called Vin Mariani. The 1886 recipe for Coca-Cola included coca leaves. Sigmund Freud even wrote about its use for exhilaration and lasting euphoria. It wasn't until 1903 that the American Journal of Pharmacy wrote about its ability for abuse by "degenerates".
The point of decriminalization is to get help for abusers instead of jail time and to take money out of the pockets of illegal gangs/cartels that profit from it. Most of the time through extreme violence. Any government that doesn't seriously consider decriminalization is just crazy.
This logic is ridiculous.
What about prescription drug abuse that is so rampant in this country? Are those considered hard drugs because they are easy to get and are extremely addictive?
People break their own legs/arms so that they can get these prescription drugs.
The idea that the criminal aspect will make people not try something is completely laughable. Illegality contributes to black market sales which contain chemically unsafe products and many of these drug deals end in violence.