LeftFielder.org
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- Drug legalization (and I will include the addictive mood altering chemicals tobacco and alcohol here as well) is a hard question. On the one hand, it’s not really government’s job to protect people from themselves. On the other hand, issues like addiction, second-hand smoke, “roid rage”, public financing of emergency rooms, drunk driving, competitive disadvantage, etc. can both take choice away from individuals and pose problems of negative externalities that effect all of society–and that makes it government’s business. In that sense, I have no problem with stringent government regulation of extremely dangerous drugs (like most narcotics), highly addictive drugs (like heroine or tobacco), or drugs that make people prone to harm others (like steroids). But I have serious problems with the assumption that any and every mood altering drug ought to be banned.
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