[tivodan1116]

Thus the best reason for legalization. Unlike illegal drugs, with legal drugs (prescriptions, alcohol, tobacco) there are legitimate businesses involved and so they have more motivation, as law-abiding businesses, to "do the right thing" and not sell drugs to underage people.

Coming from the perspective of the criminal justice system, it is oftentimes easier for children to get illegal drugs then tobacco or alcohol. Legal drugs are sold in stores with cameras and largely law-abiding employees and business licenses that can be revoked and liquor licenses and modern computers checking ID and so on, not to mention dozens of people around observing the transactions (other customers and such). Illegal drugs are sold in back alleys and street corners, by cash businesses that are unlicensed and unregulated. Drug dealers have no incentive whatsoever to only sell to adults, because the punishment is the same no matter who winds up the end user.

Also, the "predatory sales tactics" you speak of are largely fictional, invented by foaming-mouth drug warriors to portray drug dealers as assaultive aggressive "pushers" when in reality their product is much to expensive and in too high a demand to be either giving it away or pushing it on people that don't really want it. In short -- This isn't last year's fashions they're selling, there's no need for them to have a "fire sale" to move merchandise.