"Legalization of Drugs: The Myths and the Facts," by Robert L...

on 2008-12-13 by lampertina

If you accept this, then that means there isn't a convincing argument to be made for proceeding to accept drug use through legalization. It occurs to me that a key objection to legalizing hard drugs (or marijuana that has been 'doctored' to increase its potency) is that it implies *acceptance* of drug use. But given the dangers of addiction and of the fact that these drugs alter the user's brain chemistry (for the worse), *accepting* their use would be like accepting alcoholism or drunkenness or the nicotine-stained chain-smoking cigarette addict. We have laws around public drunkenness or around where you can smoke - why pedal backwards on drugs by making hard drug use legal (and thereby acceptable)?