Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?

[CapnAwesome]

I used to be a hardcore libertarian who believed that all drugs should be legal. Now I'm torn on the issue largely for the reasons that you say and because of the nations Meth problem. I'm not really sure that many of the libertarianesqe arguments make sense. Keeping drugs illegal definitely reduces the use and some of the effects of Meth and other hard drugs are not just harmful to the individual but harmful really to everyone. It's not just a matter of individual choice. I agree that we should all have the right to put what we want in our body but the next time you are in a major city and some crazy homeless person who's brain has been addled with meth gets in your face or steals some of your shit, you just can't say that the only effect is on that person.

However that's only what one side of my brain tells me. The other says that the only real way to end the drug war, which quite possibly is even worse for society than drug use, is to legalize drugs. So I don't know. I guess count me as an agnostic on this issue.