So we are taxing drugs to go into medical care, which will be increased from all of the health-reltated problems due to increased drug use? If all drugs are legalized, drug testing should be mandatory for medical coverge/insurance. If you test positive, your rates are increased accordingly.
Before any of this happens, we ned to have tort reform. You can't sue a company for getting addicted or dying from the now legal drugs that they sell.It has been known for 50 years that smoking causes dancer, yet people still use the it, bad, cigarette companies.
In New York, they have had soda bans and in most parts of the country, there is a sin tax on cigaretts. Why are we so worried about these, yet even more addictive drugs re now going to be legalalized an fine?
In a now more health conscience society, the logic doesn't make sense. Hell, people here have even called McDonalds evil for selling fatty foods. Somehow selling heroin is a-ok.
You have some very strange and unfounded beliefs on all this.
There is no evidence to suggest medical costs will increase as a result of legalisation. In every instance of drug legalisation or decriminalisation recorded, drug use has spiked in the short term and then fallen back down to either pre-change levels, or actually seen a long-term drop. Deaths and serious illnesses will decrease massively as a result of increased ability to provide care and safe usage conditions for drug users, as well as controlling drug quality and dosage.
You'll get a whole bunch of people out of the overcrowded and SUPREMELY expensive prison system. It's not just the cells and food while they're there, it's the lost productivity from that person while they're in prison, and it's the exorbitant administrative cost of arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning a citizen.
Why would medicare providers test you for legal drug use when healthcare costs do not scale for soft drink consumption, obesity, smoking, exercise, or any one of a thousand legal things that could affect your health? Should office workers pay more for medical care considering the adverse health effects of their living conditions?
I can't respond to any of the rest of your post because I didn't really understand it. That might be my fault, I apologise that I failed to comprehend it. I took a look at some of your other posts on this matter and it doesn't look like a once off so we may be coming at this from fundamentally incommunicable positions.
Before any of this happens, we ned to have tort reform. You can't sue a company for getting addicted or dying from the now legal drugs that they sell.It has been known for 50 years that smoking causes dancer, yet people still use the it, bad, cigarette companies.
In New York, they have had soda bans and in most parts of the country, there is a sin tax on cigaretts. Why are we so worried about these, yet even more addictive drugs re now going to be legalalized an fine?
In a now more health conscience society, the logic doesn't make sense. Hell, people here have even called McDonalds evil for selling fatty foods. Somehow selling heroin is a-ok.