re: RE: legalizing recreational drugs and selling them in shops

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Hey man, if you want to be a junkie, who am I to get in your way? I can't stop you from becoming an alcoholic. Why should this be any different?

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Compassion, public health, and rising health premium costs for all.

Weed is fine, but legalizing heroin is inviting hepatitis C-- and other transferable diseases comorbid with hard drug abuse-- to become a national health crisis. What would that do to families?

I hear heroin abuse is lower in Amsterdam where it is legal, but I would definitely want to read more research on their success before making such a risky policy decision.

I'm all for maximizing individual liberty, but when your indulgences translate into others having to deal with rising health care costs, and increased risk of contracting diseases that could be demonstrated to directly result from the aggregate of individuals utilizing their their liberty in this way isn't an argument to just be dismissed.