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> Quite a few over-the-counter drugs can kill you, or at least severely cripple you, if used improperly. Do you think outlawing them is a good idea? No, of cou

> Quite a few over-the-counter drugs can kill you, or at least severely cripple you, if used improperly. Do you think outlawing them is a good idea? No, of course I don't: making something illegal because it is dangerous when misused or used contrary to its intended purpose is silly. I'm not arguing that. What I am arguing is that a substance that is created to be used in a specific manner, and causes known substantial harm when used in that manner should not be tolerated by society. That's what a cigarette is: it's this thing that is made to be used in a way that has been shown without a shadow of a doubt to contribute to many fatal ailments in a major way. I put heroin and meth in that category: dangerously addictive substances that are known to cause substantial harm when used as intended.

gnaritas 13y ago
You've confused drug use with drug abuse. You've demonized recreational drug use and decided people shouldn't be allowed to decide for themselves what they put in their own bodies. You are the reason we're having this ridiculous drug war and you are the problem with this country.
- jcalvinowens 13y ago
  > You've demonized recreational drug use and decided people shouldn't be allowed to decide for themselves what they put in their own bodies. There's an enormous difference between prohibiting individual use of a dangerous drug, and allowing somebody to manufacture and sell a dangerous drug for profit. The latter troubles me deeply, and that's what I'm talking about. Profiting off of human suffering is not something society should ever tolerate. > you are the problem with this country. Oh boy! Do I get a sticker?
  - gnaritas 13y ago
    > There's an enormous difference between prohibiting individual use of a dangerous drug, and allowing somebody to manufacture and sell a dangerous drug for profit. No there isn't, if it's acceptable to consume, it's acceptable to sell; you can't allow one without the other and claim any sort of logic behind it, it's simply stupid. > Profiting off of human suffering And once again confusing use with abuse. Drug users are not suffering.

gnaritas 13y ago

You've confused drug use with drug abuse. You've demonized recreational drug use and decided people shouldn't be allowed to decide for themselves what they put in their own bodies. You are the reason we're having this ridiculous drug war and you are the problem with this country.

jcalvinowens 13y ago
> You've demonized recreational drug use and decided people shouldn't be allowed to decide for themselves what they put in their own bodies. There's an enormous difference between prohibiting individual use of a dangerous drug, and allowing somebody to manufacture and sell a dangerous drug for profit. The latter troubles me deeply, and that's what I'm talking about. Profiting off of human suffering is not something society should ever tolerate. > you are the problem with this country. Oh boy! Do I get a sticker?
- gnaritas 13y ago
  > There's an enormous difference between prohibiting individual use of a dangerous drug, and allowing somebody to manufacture and sell a dangerous drug for profit. No there isn't, if it's acceptable to consume, it's acceptable to sell; you can't allow one without the other and claim any sort of logic behind it, it's simply stupid. > Profiting off of human suffering And once again confusing use with abuse. Drug users are not suffering.