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Yeah, the purpose of drug laws is to placate conservatives who want to decide how others lead their lives. If there was a country without them I would move the

• rayiner 12y ago
  I don't think that's a fair characterization. Isn't it liberals who are always saying we're part of a society? Normalizing drug use, just like the normalization of drinking, affects everyone. You can choose not to drink, but when your kid gets into high school, society's normalization of drinking forces you to deal with the social ills that result--their being pressured to drink, their friends drinking around them and the resulting behavioral changes, people driving drunk. That's a legitimate criticism of conservatives in some areas, but not with regard to drugs. You don't have to look any further than alcohol use to see how drug use can have externalized effects.