Answering the Libertarian argument for drug legalization

[AceArcher]

Originally Posted by hawgsquatch

The best thing in the world that could happen in my community would be to legalize marijuana and deregulate the whole thing. My question is where do we draw the line? There are heroin activists and probably even meth activists (you can tell by the cool neck tats). So at what point is an addictive substance acceptable? We have caffeine alcohol and chocolate. What is the limit?

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People that want to kill themselves will. Truth is if you look at cases like portugal, there will always be hardcore abuse, but post legalization the amount of the hard and soft abuse went down. Why... simply because the systemic issues were addressed. Getting tough on drugs got them to almost 10% of there society addicted. Decriminalization of everything has dropped the abuse rates there dramatically... check on page 1,2 or 3... i linked studies conducted in portugal and netherlands.