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One should be allowed to put whatever they wish into their own body without fear of going to jail. One can not be less free in any sense of the word if that simple truth is bypassed or ignored.
Forget the right wind reasons, forget the junk science, and forget the whole concept of taxing it. Fact of the matter is the Government makes more money from it being illegal than it ever would being legal. We are talking about all the jobs it creates, the prisions it keeps open, the advertising propaganda, the fines, the siezures, and of course the value of having something to demonize when they wish. Of course this is just the tip of the finacial iceberg that prohibition brings. It is a figure that is not measured in the budget for the war on drugs.
Another important element to criminlization is that it allows for the easy removal of individuals rights, specially those of a either a racial or economic group.
As many have said. Drugs will always sell at any price, because they work.
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