Should all drugs be legalized?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should all drugs be legalized?". Your opponent's style: Bill Hicks

Not in the slightest. If we were to legalize all drugs, and make them purchaseable, our country would end up with a system even more unstable than what we had prior. As so many people would be damaging themselves and their lives by smoking things like weed constantly.

Your argument conveniently ignores that drug legalization demonstrably increases drug use and addiction, regardless of your fears about an "unstable system." What good is stability if it means more people are trapped in addiction, straining healthcare and reducing overall productivity?[1][2][3] Do you truly believe that the current black market is somehow *more* stable and less damaging than a regulated one with increased consumption?

Well, then we exterminate the black market! Like what Rodrigo Duterte did in the Phillipines, but less extreme.

Your solution is to embrace authoritarianism and human rights abuses? Duterte's "war on drugs" led to thousands of extrajudicial killings and was riddled with human rights violations, not a blueprint for a stable society.[1][2][3][4][5] Do you genuinely believe state-sanctioned murder is a viable path to eradicating drug use without destroying civil liberties?

No, I never mentioned that. If we subtly started arresting the people that run the black market by implementing spies that work for the government to rat senior and (to an extent minor) people in the black market organisation. They get arrested, and with high taxation for the rich, the government can fund services to treat these people with that tax money.

Infiltrating cartels is incredibly difficult and often leads to increased violence, not eradication.[1] History shows that focusing solely on kingpins often creates power vacuums filled by more ruthless factions.[1] Furthermore, relying on "high taxation for the rich" to fund universal treatment is a vague fiscal fantasy. How many cartels must fall and how high must taxes be to cover the estimated $740 billion annual cost of addiction in the US?[2][3] Your plan lacks both realistic enforcement and a credible funding mechanism.