Response to Becker-Posner Blog on--The Failure of the War on Drugs!!

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well the first thing i'd like to say is that there is significant difference between the ideologies of people in countries where drugs has become a major problem and where it still is not one of the big pains.
lets take for example my country India . what oi find here is that the few guys who are into drugs are not at all given respect and considered losers. so even before starting it one has to have a serious thought on what if his parents come to know about it??
what will they think about him??
and so on??
this what if factors are the prime reasons most of the guys who are offered , turn them down. now this comes into picture due to the tradition of joint famioly sytem in india, due to which there is close bonding between parents and their children at all points of time.
here is where the west really loses and the guys who are offered put their friends(those who offer)
above family and they just succumb to it.
If this habit has to be eradicated the most impoprtant thing will be to develop the close bonding between son and parents(even when they are old). so that the son thinks about what if ?? factors before taking drugs.

now i don't agree at all with you guys saying that
drug production and distribution be made legal. sir you seem to be taking sides with the drug consumption and you are treating as something good.
what you need to change is your paradigm on this topic.Just think about the future that once you make drugs production legal big companies will get into it (might be some marlboros will jump in). now they will market it furiously like what they do with cigarettes. now seriously do you think cigarette smoking is a good or decent habit. teen do that to look macho. same will happen with drugs and it will come out as the biggest problem humanity wil face in its history.
wbat you advice will just reduce or remove the so called drug lords from the scene and will bring american companies into the scene.
and once they come into picture it will become really easy to acquire drugs for normal people, and restraing its use will a big pain for the government. drug companies will make all kinds of drugs available to everybody in may be registered franchises but how will you limit the carrying capacity of single person. a man can then purchase 1 months drug requirement at a time from one shop or from different ones and end up consuming them in 3 days .
what do you say on that????