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Drugs are not the problem, prohibition is.

In the first half of the 20th century, heroin was completely legal in the UK and regularly prescribed by doctors, and there were only a handful of addicts in the entire country. It was only after it was outlawed that it started to become a problem.

Legalising recreational drugs has two major positive effects. It makes them cheap, which eliminates most of the social problems associated with drug addiction, and it makes them clean, which eliminates many of the health risks. It also takes control of the industry - one of the most lucrative in the world - out of the hands of criminals. It is no coincidence that the golden age of organised crime was in the US during the 1920s.

A weed ATM? Awesome! Too bad you have to be sick to use it.