What are you smoking?

If you walk into a gas station or a supermarket and you feel the need for a cigarette you may one of any number of cigarette brands. (Marlboro, Camel, etc...) You may even possibly buy some sort of cigar, whatever it is however will be just an ordinary cigarette. What if that could change? What if you could walk into a gas station and ask for a pack of marijuana cigarettes? For that matter, what if you could go and purchase any illicit drug at no risk of being imprisoned? The legalization of the now illegal drugs has been discussed again and again and I just had to stop and think about it myself. Think about what it would mean if you could buy drugs publicly. It would mean an end to blackmarket sales of these items, less people working on the streets trying to sell their products, they could just start their own drug convenient store, but is it right to legalize something so terrible. There have positives and negatives used to support each side. The negatives are pretty self-explanatory, these drugs hurt people, not only do the people who use these drugs to serious harm to themselves but they also have a higher likelihood to harm someone else. When using drugs the user has very little control over his or her actions. Now the positives of legalizing drugs would be that there would be much less crime. People wouldn't have to hide in the shadows to buy and sell drugs. Stealing other people's drugs, or the gang wars that take place over drugs and drug trafficking would all but disappear because everything would be out in the eye of the public. The government would be able to tax the product which would both discourage buyers and sellers, at least in a minor way, from handling the drugs. The site that I have linked to this post gives various statistics about drugs and drug use and it shows information gathered about which drugs are the most popular and number of drug related arrests. What do you think? Should drugs be legalized? Are there certain drugs that should be legalized and other kept illegal? How can we decide whether these drugs should be legalized or not? Is there a better way to control the drug situation? I ask the questions, you give the answers (or at least you opinion and input).