Re: I\'m joining NORML.
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So, what about heroin or cocaine? People who use those drugs are similarly making a personal decision to use them. Do you think these, and every other hard substance, should also be legalised because it's a 'personal decision'? If your answer is no, then while your premises may be true, your argument is flawed.
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For harder drugs, the positives of enabling personal freedoms do not outweigh the negative externailities of more widespread use. For weed I think they do. This is a very subjective value assesment (how does one compare personal freedom to economic DWL and more personal externalities?) but for the vast majority of controlled substances the answer is intuitivly obvious, imo, once an extensive analysis is complete.
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