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Americans and their obsession with drugs is so strange. We're 5% of the population, yet we consume over 50% of all illegal drugs. Something tells me that this
by numair 18y ago
Americans and their obsession with drugs is so strange. We're 5% of the population, yet we consume over 50% of all illegal drugs. Something tells me that this cultural inclination for drug usage makes it much more difficult to justify legalization. We're a country that can barely handle a free-market debt system -- I don't even want to know what we would do with a liberalized drug market.
Then again, I am one of those people who doesn't do drugs, drink, smoke, or eat processed foods, because I understand that it's extremely expensive (in that you lose long-term quality of life / life expectancy - the single most important non-renewable resource for a living creature); I am obviously a minority...
- jacoblyles 18y ago>"We're a country that can barely handle a free-market debt system -- I don't even want to know what we would do with a liberalized drug market." There are a ton of packaged assumptions and a nice non-sequitir in just this one little sentence. That's sloppy rhetoric. It would take a page to unpack and discuss them all with clear thinking. >"Then again, I am one of those people who doesn't do drugs, drink, smoke, or eat processed foods" Probably most of the people that advocate drug legalization aren't regular users, and many of them have never used drugs. Rather, they support legalization because of the effects of prohibition on society. I wouldn't impute selfish motives to people that disagree with you without understanding them first.