• bobman@unilem.org
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    1 year ago

    So… if people are going to do drugs anyways, why make them illegal?

    Seems like you’re simultaneously saying that drugs should be illegal because it ‘limits the number of people who do them,’ yet there will always be people who do drugs no matter what?

    Wouldn’t it still make sense to make drugs legal so the resources wasted on enforcing drug laws can be better spent somewhere else? That way we actually reduce the amount of people who resort to drug use out of misery. The people who you say will do drugs ‘no matter what’ are going to be doing them whether they’re illegal or not. So it doesn’t really make sense to make them illegal because we’re not actually reducing the number of users.

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      1 year ago

      I was just adding info to the ‘people only do drugs when they’re down’ part. Personally, I don’t really care. People find new and fun ways to kill each other anyway, why waste resources making something illegal when you could instead collect tax money from it.

      I’m on the legalise everything side, I just disagree about it only being people down on their luck.