So, you like to make decisions for yourself do you? That's interesting because you seem to want to take away everyone else's capacity for making this same decision, by keeping all drugs illegal.
Maybe we should make Penicillin illegal next because my mum is allergic to it.
Penicillin is a bad example to use because it is controlled in many countries and places where it isn't are having problems which will cause severe trouble world wide.
I can't make every decision for myself, as it's not possible unless we go back to caves. So I contract some out to society which has experts to do the job for me to some degree. They know which side of the road is best to drive on and they know (because they fund research on the matter) what things fuck up a society.
Drugs is one.
And yes I'm quite happy for this decision to be made for people.
The allergic to penicillin is a stupid comment. I'm allergic too but thanks to public funding and study, there are alternatives. If we had to put public health funding into addiction related problems, perhaps there wouldn't...
Also when drugs are legalised, what is to stop a pharmaceutical company trying to provide a superior experience with addiction so you come back (nicotine v2)?
where does the ethical line lie? Right at the start.
So, you like to make decisions for yourself do you? That's interesting because you seem to want to take away everyone else's capacity for making this same decision, by keeping all drugs illegal.
Maybe we should make Penicillin illegal next because my mum is allergic to it.