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Why are 'drugs' illegal?

Simple question! Apparently it's a personal choice, we are all grown ups with responsibility and accountability for ourselves, so why should they be illegal. Why not just an age gate maybe and some centralised pertinent guidance?

(And you know which I'm taking about)

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Lostpoet · M

Because somepeople can't handle it and they ruin it for the rest of us. I lot of drugs were legal in the beginning.

SW-User

@Lostpoet how do they ruin it for the rest? Why not legalise and control like alcohol?

Lostpoet · M

@SW-User Because you really can't control how much and when people us drugs and you don't know how certain people are going to react to certain drugs.

SW-User

@Lostpoet true, what about alcohol, cigarettes, fumes and pollution from industry and cars, poverty, homelessness, losing your job, sht processed food etc. What do you envisage if a free market with say, a quality control aspect was introduced? For the illegal drugs.

Lostpoet · M

@SW-User I totally get you on that. I don't smoke, and I quit drinking two years ago. (Big mistake.)

But living in utah and working at a factory is way worse on my lungs than cigarettes or a lot of drugs. I'm a vegetarian so I only really only eat fresh foods. There is just isn't any system that I can think of that could make using drugs safe. They way drugs work in general means that affects the use of the drug. People can start out with small amounts but then it gets bigger to have the same affects. We live in a drug culture that is highly regulated though just look in anybodies medicine cabinet. If you want drugs than go to the source: go see your doctor.