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There are all sorts of restrictions on alcohol and tobacco. In the US alcohol would be illegal if the government hadn't tried and failed to make it illegel.
All sorts, except the sort that applies to all the rest of the drugs. It still makes no sense.
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Forget your answer. Stop and ask this question: Why do we as a society need more and more and MORE stimuli to cope with life? Seriously. Is society headed in the right direction if almost everyone needs some type of external influence just to get through the week? I already have a answer. Problem is, every time you fire up a computer or a phone or a TV, you're seeking a stimulus which is going to fire off chemical si…
Sure. Food and spices are the same as heroin and marijuana. Ha ha. You're funny.
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Sources?
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... Key findings, page 1 > Around 1 in 12 (8.6%) adults aged 16 to 59 had taken an illicit drug in the last year. This equated to around 2.8 million people. This level of drug use was similar to the 2013/14 survey (8.8%), but significantly lower than a decade ago (11.2% in the 2004/05 survey). Cannabis, page 3 (The chart on that page is pretty clear.) > As i…
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/nationwide-...
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Sure. Food and spices are the same as heroin and marijuana. Ha ha. You're funny.
Ha ha. You're ignorant. They're stimulants. If tomorrow all sugar and salt were banned, you'd have the same sort of violent cartels importing them illegally.
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> What about the fact that drugs are incompatible with the lifestyle we want our society to have? Isn't it better instead of legalizing them to find the root cause which is forcing these people to seek escapism from reality in psychoactive substances? Should we be fighting all forms of escapism? Movies, books, comics, computer games? Daydreaming? If not, why are "drugs" different? Does this apply to all psychoactive…
It's ridiculous and juvenile to make these kinds of comparisons. Do people escape through books and movies? Not usually to the point that they become dangerous. Let's be adults here.