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Past experiences with widespread drug availability and addiction suggest social cohesion is lost as people become dependent on the next fix. Look up the histor

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• armitron 10y ago
  This is far from an objective point of view and extremely misleading. Opium war in china had nothing to do with social cohesion, but trade and geopolitics. Same for the war in Afghanistan. You don't need to go that far in order to come up with dubious examples (that few are familiar with) however. The early 1900s in the good old USA, where morphine and later heroin were sold over the counter should provide plenty of evidence that you're spewing garbage.
• adrusi 10y ago
  In the Opium Wars, opium was illegal. It wasn't much of a risk to smokers, but it drove the cost up and drove the trade underground. Social cohesion is lost when addicts can't go through socially acceptable avennues to get the next fix they're dependent on. If you can just pick up your fix from the corner store like alcoholics can, then you won't expect social cohesion to be affected any more than it is by alcoholics, especially since many of the people who might become addicts after legalization were likely to become alcoholics anyway.