Drug Policy

[Dystopia]

By your logic then there'd be absolutely no use in buying a car from a reputable dealer instead of a backstreet garage. Or getting an uncertified electrician to come round to your house instead of one who's got all his credentials. Or buying, as Pyrrho says, "bathtub gin" (whatever that is) when they can buy a regulated product..

But people are not really addicted to (most people anyway) getting cars all the time or electricians unless the power is out. People do get addicted to drugs, and they do anything (even hurting others) to get a tiny piece of it. I don't see how's comparable to bathub gin, it sounds like something a comedian would say.

Maybe I'm a person who has consumed drugs for X time and I'm really used to this dealer - Maybe that person is a known acquaintance, or friend (from my experience most young people smoking weed do this), so why bother paying more for the government's product? Or do you honestly think the government would make a cheaper price than street dealers?~


Answering to the other part - Well marijuana is not as addicting as people make it so it does not apply, and I'm not arguing against legalization of marijuana specifically. I'm talking about heavy drugs. I haven't smoked weed in a while, but when I did I would be fine without smoking it if I had no money to buy more weed - I didn't get withdrawal symptoms, I just missed the high. I think if I was addicted to heroin my reaction would have been different