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Originally Posted by mineistaken
My perspective is that junkies COST to society. Meaning EVERYONE pays for their treatment, for their inability to work and so on and on. Not to mention some addicts actually steal or hurt in order to get the dose.
That are the reasons to prohibit it.
Same logic - some people say that safety belts should not be enforced as it is HIS/HER own life. Do you agree with that?
I do not because losing those lives actually COST to society (one less person to contribute etc etc). That is why they are enforced, even though it is his/her own life...
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the cost of enforcing such laws that everyone is going to break anyways costs a lot. the "war on drugs" has cost billions and achieved basically nothing. millions of productive people use pot medicinally and recreationally. addicts will be addicts no matter what laws you make up. using the word junkie when talking about weed is laughable. abuse of legal medication is probably the biggest problem out there. kids here in my quiet little burb are ODing left and right on fentanyl.