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Originally Posted by bELyVIS
You are talking about drug trafficking. Legalize it and there would be no more violence involved (did you see any Al Capone shootouts after Prohibition was revoked?) . As for a gateway drug, alcohol is the biggest. Almost all illegal drug users drank before using. A cop told me that all heroin and meth users all smoked tobacco and almost none used Marijuana after getting hooked.
The point is that drug abuse is lessened after it is legalized and treated as a health problem instead of a crime. Japan and all the countries need to learn this and figure out that making something illegal will never stop it. Japan will follow America's lead and legalize it after America does, this is close to happening here in the US.
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In another thread on this topic, I cited government and medical studies linking the use of marijuana to schizophrenia and psychosis. Once again, marijuana is not harmless.
As for what the "cop" told you, I was a cop myself, and I know otherwise. Japan will not follow "America's lead" and legalize marijuana should America ever legalize it. You are right that making something illegal doesn't stop people from doing it; rape and murder are quite illegal, but they happen every day.
Believe it or not, people do stupid things, and society has put in place rules to limit what things people can and cannot do for the greater good of the people. A drugged society is not a free society, it is chemically enslaved. Those who enjoy marijuana so much that they risk arrest and imprisonment for it's possession are either stupid, or are chemically enslaved to it. They would argue otherwise, saying "I can quit anytime", but I've heard alcoholics say the same words countless times.