Tyler: Legalise Drugs Now!

To start with, I (say) that I don't consume any kind of drugs. It's just not my cup of tea, so to speak. I have friends who smoke pot, but while I (want) any of them to get into trouble about it, I wave away the spliffs they sometimes offer me. I just (stomach) pot, to tell the truth. I've tried it, and it makes me depressive.
Still, I do think it (be) legal. I mean, fully and completely legal, with shops selling it openly over the counter. And I'm not only talking about weed, in fact. I think all drugs (be) legalised, all the way to heroin and even crack cocaine. You (wonder) why I (think) so, so let me explain.
The damage done by drugs is obvious. I know people my age who (spend) time in hospital because they OD'd. One classmate of mine even died because he'd swallowed too much extasy. A pill too many, and after hyperthermia came the organ failure. He blacked out, and that was it. It was prime Mandy, too. In fact, he (still, be) alive if it hadn't been -apparently the pills were stronger than he thought. But that's just my point: without quality control, how you be sure what you're buying? And while it's illegal, how there be a decent quality control?
Just a few weeks ago, a boy I didn't know was shot to death a few blocks down the street. The guy who did it was arrested soon after. His defence? "He (invade) my crew's territory." The victim was selling cocaine in the wrong place. something like this have happened in a legal market? I don't think so.
My point is, prohibition doesn't work. I'd even say it can't work. Right now my little sister -she's 14- (get) Mandy, coke, heroin or whatever more easily than a pint of beer. Why? There's no age control, and why (there, be) in a market that's illegal anyway? Plus, prosecuting drug offenders (cost) a mint. we rather invest the money in prevention? I'd say we .

Lisa: Don't Do Drugs!

If you ask me if drugs (legalise), there's only one thing I (say): No way! I think you've already talked to my mate Tyler, who is of a rather different opinion. How he? With all the things both of us see around us every day, my conclusion (be) this: drugs do people in, and we (do) something about them. We absolutely (ban) all kinds of drugs, and we (do) so more decisively than we have so far.
Pro-legalisation people such as Tyler often argue that prohibition doesn't work. My answer is, how do they know? Yes, the proportion of heroin addicts (indeed, stay) fairly constant over the last few decades. OK. So what? Society has become much more complicated, more conflictive and less equal since, say, 1970. Taking this into account, I think we (expect) the numbers to have gone up quite considerably. They haven't, and that (be) because of prohibition. What else the reason be? We aren't winning this war, that much is true. But we (win) it. We (win) it: we (afford) not to. Legalising drugs would be giving up, and I refuse to do so. Legalisation well mean increasing consumption, with all that entails.
I conclude repeating what I said before: we (legalise) those terrible poisons, under any circumstance whatsoever. Quite the opposite, in fact: we (intensify) the fight. Stay clean -it's the only way.