Originally Posted by crockett

Of course there were less cars, I'm meaning percentage of course. I'd suspect there were far less people gunned down in the streets than what die in DUI related wrecks each year.

Example in 2010 there were roughly 10,000 DUI related deaths. This of course is only deaths related to driving a car after consuming alcohol. No other alcohol related deaths counted.

The same year there were roughly 9,300 murders committed with a gun. Now of course every murder that was committed in 2010 with a gun wasn't drug related. I'm sure not every illegal drug death that comes by means of violence was not always done with a gun but I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that illegal drug related violence accounts for fewer deaths than simply driving while drinking.

This means that legalizing it while it does fix some problems it also creates other problems that might be worse. This is why I say just decriminalization of drugs it isn't a simple solution as it will undoubtedly create other problems that could be potentially bigger.

The problem with the drug war in the US, is that we aren't educating people properly and there is no longer a social stigma related to drugs. Added to this we don't do enough to get people off them, once they are addicted.

While I'm not against legalizing Marijuana exclusively, I just don't think that it's a real solution in the long run, when it comes to drug problems in the US.