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Is Pepspice better for you than weed?Is Weed bad? The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world. [1] Drug abuse impoverishes every community where it exists. It diminishes human strength and moral fibre. It undermines esteemed values. It destroys the will to live and to contribute to a better society. Drug abuse is indeed a scourge, just as much as a famine, a drought or an epidemic. Every year it reaps an increasing harvest of human lives. [2] Every year billions of dollars are controlled by criminals instead of by legitimate traders and the government. This black market funds global terrorism, as well as enabling the control of prostitution by pimps, sexual slavery, illegal munitions trade and other appalling crimes... We should take all recreational drugs under state control to be sold in shops, taxed, and controlled by legislation. [3] Nobody’s ever been able to explain to me why we waste prison cells on drug addicts. Drug addiction is a consensual crime, it’s a 'crime against oneself.' How can we justify letting violent criminals go because of overcrowding, when there are so many people behind bars whose only crime is they’re addicted to something? [4] Drug prohibition has not reduced the number of addicts appreciably if at all and has promoted crime and corruption. If we cannot destroy the drug menace, then it will surely in time destroy us. I am not prepared to accept this alternative. [5] All drugs should be decriminalized. Drugs should be distributed by any adult to other adults. There should be no controls on production, supply or purchase for adults. [6] Does drug prohibition reduce drug usage? Drugs are very dangerous but there's a lot of things that are very dangerous. The question is, should we regulate danger? Should we take responsibility for ourselves or should the government take care of us? I don't believe in the nanny state. [7] Driving without prescription glasses can result in accidents as well, however you are not bound by law to wear them all the time when you are not driving. Similarly, you should not be prevented from consuming drugs when you are in situations in which you cannot harm others, i.e. in the privacy of your home. While smoking is directly harming other people inhaling second hand smoke, and therefore inflicting harm to others, alcohol and drug abuse can lead to indirect harm through, for example, intoxicated driving. Is there a fundamental difference between alcohol addiction, smoking addiction, and drug addiction? The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. There are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise. [8] Is the health risk of a psychoactive drug a legitimate reason to make it illegal? Drugs legalization pros and cons.