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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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MethDozer · M

Drug enforcement and prison is big business. That's why. Drug prohibition has been a repeated and proven failure with nothing but destructive results and to cause more problems than the drugs and drug use themselves.

SW-User

@MethDozer prisons and law administration are big business, especially now its moving more and more into the private sector.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP

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MethDozer · M

@SW-User It's also political scapegoat gold. The easiest way to make yoursef look concerned with saftey, law, and order is to pointlessly focus on drugs and drug use. It's an easy bust and investigation to up the numbers of crime enforcement while ignoring more serious but harder to prosecute crime.

Police wouldn't need all their military style trucks and toys so those sales would be lost.

THe money around the business of prohibtion is huge and is all over in many layers.

BoobooSnafu

@MethDozer Not to mention, that low end street drugs suppress and eventually eliminate an otherwise expensive problem - the undesirables in society - the poor, the crazy, and other misfits.

It's an easy answer to many unsolved issues in society, and wonderfully redirects blame away from our governments.
Plus...the employment spin offs from it's affects on society is quite expensive.
Not effective, but expensive.