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Originally Posted by peter12
Here's an article he wrote back in 2000 for Slate.com.
Hard to summarize, but basically a reasoned analysis of the social costs being greater than the legalization savings. Increased addicts, decreased production, spread of disease (such as HIV) facilitated by hard drugs etc...
Pretty damning quote here...
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Great article. I tend to agree, a world where these drugs are legal seems to open society up to many more problems, even worse than the crime we are dealing with now.
I'm still not sure about the marijuana debate either. Pretty tame drug, sure. But do we really want a society full of people getting high a lot? What are the repercussions of that? Not so sure it would be positive.
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