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Originally Posted by peter12
Read "The Moral Sense" by James Q. Wilson. The guy makes a devastating critique of legalization of hard, addictive drugs.
I am a pretty libertarian person, I used to believe in the legalization of all drugs. This book totally changed my opinion, except in the case of marijuana and some hallucinogens. Wilson does not revert to moralizing but makes an explicit cost/benefit argument against legalization. Read it!
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Can you give us a quick idea of what he argues?
I don't think there's any case that hard drugs, legal or illegal, are good for anyone. Maybe that's just me but working near East Hastings and seeing daily a reminder of how these drugs disintegrate human life, has made me a strong opponent of ever making that stuff easy to come by.
Maybe the war on drugs, despite the difficulties, is worth fighting.