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This is in reference to <74799l$t5h$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, in which a
one st...@dds.nl wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> > Heroin usage? OK, let us legalise Class A drugs for suicide since that is
> > what it amounts to.
> 
> Well not necessarily.  There are people out there who can take heroin
> responsibly.  It's less addictive than nicotine.

If all those drugs got legalized, the amount of people who can use them 
responsibly would be miniscule compared to the number of people who would
hurt someone or themselves or some animal or some piece of property, etc.

And what does that even mean, to use them "responsibly"?  Would they get high 
or not?  If not, what would be the point?  And if so, then they are likely to
do something they wouldn't do otherwise. 

> > But ignoring this obvious conclusion to the poor soul
> > taking the shit, the problem is financing the habit, hence the crime rate
> > related to drug abuse.
> 
> And if it were legalized and could be sold over the counter the crime rate
> related to the black market would disappear.  

Yeah, and if you made everything you could think of legal, crime rate would 
disappear.

> There would be a greatly reduced rate related to people stealing trying to
> get money for their next fix, because it would be cheaper (the main reason
> why drugs are so expensive is because it's a high-risk trade for the drug
> barons - if that risk was gone, there would be no justification to charge so
> high).  

Even if it were cheaper, there still would be lots of people who spend all 
their money on it.  These people's lives would be worse, because now they can 
get more drugs and consequently do more damage.

> There would be less drugs on the street which were dud - less rat poison in
> coke, less bicarbonate of soda in ecstasy, a precise measure of how many
> micrograms were on your tab of acid, and so on.  If people know exactly what
> they're putting inside of themselves, they can prepare for it alot better.
> Right now it's like buying a bottle of drink which you don't know whether
> it's 50% alcohol or 10% alcohol or if it's even alcohol at all.
> 
> This is one of those issues which can drag on longer than warez is bad.  It
> happenned over the space of about 3 months on alt.music.techno a year or two
> ago...  To be honest completely do not understand anyone who is against the
> legalization of drugs.  There are so many positive sides to it - the only
> argument against it is based in the stigma our society has cultivated over the
> last 75 years or so.

Basically, I don't think drugs should be legalized because there are too many 
bad effects (these aren't side effects, these are actual causes) and no 
advantages other than a "nice feeling" that lasts a few minutes.  It's not 
worth it, and it's not right to let people go out and buy something that 
does nothing but give them brain damage.

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