Legality of drugs and other substances
Should drugs be legal?
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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas, and submit new ideas.All drugs should be legal because people have a right to do what they want, as long as it isn’t violating the rights of others.
People on drugs violate the rights of others way more often.
If they violate rights they should be punished by the law, that applies regardless of if they take drugs or not.
Getting someone hooked on an addictive substance to get repeat business is predatory. It’s not an honest way to do business. Even if consuming drugs was legal, maybe the selling of drugs should still be illegal.
The purpose of the law isn’t to minimise negatives and maximise positives. The purpose of the law is to uphold the rights of people.
Legalising drugs will bring lawful competition to cartels and gangs, breaking geographical monopolies that perpetuate other (actual) criminal activity.
Drugs are a net negative for society.
(This branch of the conversation has been moved to #4137)
Those who advocate making most/all drugs illegal tend to think alcohol should remain legal, despite alcohol having many of the same problems as drugs.