If drugs remain illegal - this is what you get (WARNING: Extremely graphic pic)

[FrodosPet]

22. So, if Krokodil is legal it will be safe?

Or is it that if heroin were not only legal, but affordable, people would leave krokodil alone?

And who exactly would produce and distribute legal heroin, meth, crack cocaine, etc.? Private industry or a government agency? Would the government still be going after black marketers, or would the price be so cheap and readily available, perhaps even subsidized by public funds, that there would be no underground market?

And what do we do about the people earning their living in the illegal drugs trade? Do we offer them a level of unemployment compensation high enough that they are not tempted to go into other criminal activities, such as robbery, kidnapping, gun running, etc? I might be wrong, but I would think there are not many people making $500 to $1000 a day for sitting around Playstation, collecting money, and handing a few baggies out the window would be enthused about sweating or freezing their ass off while risking their lives on the side of a busy road shoveling gravel and sand until they are bone tired and sore. If they have any kind of moral compass and honest pride, they may do it, but many others will find some other source of easy money.