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The fact remains Drug use can (and often do) lead to abuse and harm, and that potential is justification for it's banning.
However before you say something benign or ridiculous such as "Well Cars can kill people, should we outlaw them?"
No because the potential for danger is staggeringly small compared to there average use to make the danger negliable.
As compared to say...Meth.
Well, lets be honest then, banning drugs doesn't stop drug abuse. The issue with the banning them because they have the potential to cause harm, is it's implying that banning drugs is a strong enough measure to stop abuse. It's not, and the historical data reflects this. Making drugs illegal hasn't worked at stopping drug abuse. Drugs are more prevalent, and cheaper, then ever before. Abuse is rampant, and we don't have the programs in place to mitigate it. Lets look at cigarette smoking, despite being legal the rate of people smoking has dropped dramatically since the 60's. People aren't stupid, and thinking that government banning something is going to restrict access or demand has shown not to work when it comes to drugs.
I would rather have drugs legalized, and instead of spending as much as we do on incarceration and effectively trying to limit the supply (which has failed) focus on things like rehabilitation clinics, and other better targeted abuse prevention programs.
Once you Legalize something, you are saying that it's ok to do it, and that the thing you are legalizing is moral or correct.
Drug use is not...so you should not legalize.
I've heard nothing but a biased view from you. This is supposed to be a country or "world" where we can have all kinds of views, regardless of how extreme or lopsided. I think anyone has any right to do whatever they want to their body, harmful or not. Just because you don't have the same view, don't try to restrict mine, or change mine. As, I'm not doing it upon you.
The entire world thinks their right, some of us are, most of us aren't, but there isn't anything
moral about changing everyone's right to do it. The government was put into place so we can thrive and survive without immediate danger, not to give us morals, or a popular point of view. Gay marriage is illegal, are the gays immoral? Maybe, depending on the person. But unless we want an entire biased government, that can vary from extreme catholic, to the ability to kill or rob abyone legally. Now, let's be progressing mature adults and think about this. Should the government tell us it's illegal to go around bodying everyone? Yes, should they tell us what our passtime should be? No.
Some people have games, religions, sports, or drugs. If something really interests us that much, it's up to us to decide if it's worth it, and what the risks are. ALL of those have risks, and drugs aren't the biggest hobby that have the biggest risks. Most people use drugs because they have pain, some don't. Someone needs good help for the former, though, and they might not seek it because it's too difficult with the risk to be criticized and crucified.