Least Favorite Law

Laws on drugs in America, where I live.

If the US government can salestax things like alcohol and cigarettes, which can be just as bad or worse than drugs, then that's stupid. The US needs to treat weed, cocaine, and heroine etc, all as alcohol in cigarettes.

Drugs are drugs. People obtain them, sell them, travel with them, and abuse them on a daily basis. Laws are not getting in their way, nor is it stopping drug abuse. Instead of wasting money by trying to stop it, let businesses sell drugs and just tax them, just like cigarettes or alcohol. People will be given the free right to buy and use drugs, the government will make boatloads of money in drug taxes, and everyone will be happy. It's the correct and democratic thing to do. It strengthens the economy, and would allow people freedom to do what they want.

The governments reasoning to not do this is that OD's would drastically increase, but this is not the case. All they need to do is put an insane tax on the sale of heroin and other drugs and that will prevent people from purchasing them; it's the reason marijuana isn't as big as it could be right now.