Two former Baltimore City police officers write a column in the Washington Post calling for the legalization of drugs.
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Large areas of our cities have been largely abandoned as a result of the disastrous and unwinnable war on drugs. It's not the drugs themselves, it is the black market, the piles of cash, and the violence that comes with it, that has caused a lot of the problem. The writers of the editorials don't call for legalization across the board, but rather propose to let communities decide for themselves how to regulate drugs. We regulate the sale of alcohol and tobacco as it is. If the states could also manage the sale of narcotics and psychedelics, the results would not be perfect, but would be much better than what we have now. Entire criminal cartels would be out of business over night. There would be far less gun violence, because the criminals would no longer have anything to protect.
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