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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
I'm sorry but you're opening up a huge can of worms by legalizing addictive drugs. It'd be like the tobacco industry but a hundred times worse. Can you imagine companies legally able to produce and sell crack. Money would be poured into making it as addictive as possible in order to get people hooked and dependent on it. And all the while, the government will basically be supporting it.
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Great point. I think you'd be basically be giving the profit motive to another group of thugs, but this time they wear suits and work in fancy offices.
Its nice to think that somehow legalization of hard drugs would solve problems, but it makes little to no sense at all. Some of these drugs are extremely damaging, and damaging to society as a whole. Why would you actively put something like that into the marketplace?
Just because the war on drugs isn't over and costs money doesn't mean its not worth fighting. There's no quick fix but I hardly think giving everyone easy legal access to these brutal substances is a good way to go.