By making drugs more available and more accessible, legalization would do nothing to reduce drug use and its adverse consequences. We know from our experience with legal substances such as alcohol and tobacco that any potential tax revenue would come nowhere close to offsetting the costs to society. And there is no evidence that legalizing drugs would cause criminal organizations to abandon their illicit activities.

Read more

Further reading:

Legalizing weed won’t happen under Harper’s watch

Leave a Reply