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the three illicit drugs discussed here, combined. Even the pharmaceutical product, Oxycontin, claims more lives than do the other illicit substances. Therefore, it must be that our lawmakers are using another system on which to classify a substance as a legal or illegal drug. Practical deduction should lead most to believe that someone isn't being honest with us on this topic.

So, back to the question at hand, how do we solve the problem of drug trafficking? It doesn't take an Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking to observe that the classification system for drugs is not only absurd, it's fallacious and irrational, begging to be readdressed and rationalized. Since evidence plainly shows the dangers of various drugs, while at the same time those statistics obviously do not correspond to their categorization, there has to be some other factor contributing to this discrepancy. Whatever that may be, proposing a solution to the problem is more useful than speculating on reasons for the discrepancy, and therefore I will venture to infer that the problem of drug trafficking can be resolved overnight, no longer an issue. All that needs to be done is legalize and incorporate all drugs into the same market of production as say tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals (the dangerous drugs). All drugs would then be regulated and there would be no more need for a black market. Arrest rates as such would plummet and we could begin to invest in drug and health education instead of squandering more taxpayer dollars on unwanted and utterly dysfunctional prisons since roughly half of the prison population is incarcerated on some sort of drug charge it is truly a sick system in need of urgent intervention. People are going to use drugs regardless of its legality status; history has shown that to be accurate. I would assert that most adults with common sense, even if they had legal access to purchase drugs like cocaine or heroin which were produced under strict quality control measures like the legal ones already mentioned, still wouldn't begin to use them. But, as the once admirable comic Dennis Miller always stated at the end of his monologue, that's just my opinion, I may be wrong.

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