| Nautilus said: Its kind of a bit the same reason every country has laws.If you dont estabilish rules and punishment for things that can potentially destroy yourself/others, the world would just descent into chaos.So yes, war on Drugs on ANY country is important. |
That last bit is very disingenuous when you consider that the Netherlands has outright supplied its addicts with drugs (namely heroin) to give them a safe place to use, and that this has completely curbed new users of the drug. They use, can't hurt anybody while using, aren't using something that may be laced or even more dangerous, and they don't spend their money on this. And it doesn't cost much in terms of taxes - last I heard the lack of dangerous overdoses and the medical cost of said overdoses has more than offset the tax burden on this program.
Criminalizing drugs tends to make things even more dangerous for anybody involved. I know that's a slight generalization but it's held true enough times for it to be a valid one.
Source on Netherlands:
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