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Dec

2008

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

Maginnis marshals arguments against the legalization of drugs. First, he presents arguments from all sides (pro & con), then skewers 8 myths around the alleged benefits of legalization. Bottom line: drugs do harm and cause social disorder, and since "There is no 'civil right' to do what is wrong or harmful to yourself, your family, or your society," there isn't a convincing argument to be made for proceeding to accept drug use through legalization.

www.sarnia.com/...myths.html

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There is no "civil right" to do what is wrong or harmful to yourself, your family, or your society.
- Yule Heibel on 2008-12-13
  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)?
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