Drug legalization would be good thing on developed countries. Lets say you have a chance on Asian countries to legaliza drugs, can you imagine the whole process?
Many of the developed nations have already legalized soft drugs. It has been hugely beneficial, by cutting down the drug-related crime, increasing the tax revenue, and creating more jobs. The developing countries (especially those in Asia) can also try the same. Not just drugs, but prostitution also must be legalized.
Euh... No?
I mean maybe we don't have the same definition of "many" but what countries did that?
There is... Netherlands ok, few states in USA... Spain maybe?
And that's all folks, whole Europe is more or less opposed to legalization anyway...
Don't mistake the leaders with the whole Europe. We as people don't have much influence despite democracy flag that each country uses to cover their actions.
To give you an example I would vote for a party that would openly state they want to legalize drugs and give people more freedom, but there are no such parties. People are so afraid of the conservative majority that they don't even say such things before the elections or they'd get laughed at by their opponents.
Once in a few years someone comes up with a smart idea like making guns more available, not putting addicts in jail for drug possession, but usually it wakes up fear mongers and their media campaigns screaming "you go easy on drug addicts they'll come to your schools and stab your children with needles, there will be an aids everywhere and if you allow people to have guns they will start shooting each other in the streets and giving guns to their children to play with."
First of all, before adopting such dangerous laws, one must think whether this will be useful for your children.