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Continuing to play devil's advocate with the moral objectors: While these surely _are_ dangers of someone ingesting some substances, which of these dangers is p
by halfcat 12y ago
Continuing to play devil's advocate with the moral objectors: While these surely _are_ dangers of someone ingesting some substances, which of these dangers is prevented by making them illegal? On the whole, none are prevented. Those already addicted will use regardless of legal status. Those not yet using illegal drugs are doing fine putting others in harms way by casual use of legal substances like alcohol. The dangers you mention are in fact dangers, but the risk factor to others doesn't change much with legalization.
I do agree there are many who will object on these moral grounds though.
- Natsu 12y agoI don't think of "prevented" as a binary status. It's clear that at least some are prevented and the others are simply taken off the streets, making some of the aforementioned issues smaller, with certain other tradeoffs. I do not expect there to be a perfect solution any which way society goes about this. I have not seen much debate well informed enough to give more than opinions about the actual magnitude of many of the costs and tradeoffs, though I am interested in some of the talk about decriminalization (which is sometimes confused with legalization) combined with expanded addiction treatment programs.