Change of position - All drugs should be legal

[Aegon]

An addiction to Candy Crush has a very small chance of emptying your bank account, making you lose your job, making you lose your home, and / or killing you. An addiction to heroin, on the other hand...

I used smartphone games as an example - People have been known to become addicted to videogames and it can greatly affect their lives. Alcohol and gambling can have the exact same effects, but are not banned activities/substances - Just regulated.

Yes, but drinking and gambling are acceptable recreational activities in our society. It's normal to go to the bar with your co-workers at the end of the day; it's not so normal to shoot up with them at the end of the day. There is a negative stigma associated with hard drugs (and weed, in America's case.) Do you think that there shouldn't be a negative stigma around them? Regardless, there is. And it's near impossible IMO to get rid of it, especially with all those cocaine and heroin horror stories in existence. As long as that stigma exists, it doesn't matter. So the point that drinking and gambling can be just as damaging is irrelevant when the negative stigma surrounding drugs is so strong.