text: should drugs be legalized? to qualify that a little more is that drugs are already legal.  you walk in any grocery stores and there are isles after isles of thousands of them.  you hear religions preach against drugs but never say anything about those in stores presently that are legal.  does legal equal moral?  should the remaining few and their variants be made legal that are not now?  do you feel it is true that the war on drugs can not be won? making certain drugs illegal just making criminals rich? are we spending money on law enforcement when we could be making money on sales tax? could money made of these drugs be used for medical help and education? would these drugs hype up for a while being legal but decline like cigarette smoking?  is it just a plain bad idea to legalize them and should we actually make all the rest illegal?  personally i am against drugs after seeing what they do to people however what is the right answer? if by legalized you mean de-criminalized and regulated by an administrative body, then i would say yes.  drugs are not a moral issue, but rather a health and safety issue, which is where we're confused in america.  it seems we'd be far better off if the $$$ from the "drug war" was redirected into rehabilitation and education.  currently illegal drugs could be taxed and regulated, which would produce revenue, as well as be more efficiently researched, along with the potential benefits of other derivative chemicals and drugs.  besides, the "war on drugs" is as much a retarded child of propaganda as the "war on terrorism."  these aren't nations or even ideals, but a pervasive problem that must be treated at the source, not fought.