>>>>Drugs like heroin are inherently dangerous without any help from regulation, but it's regulation that creates the atmosphere for murder and drug dealers.
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>>>Yeah, crystal meth and crack cocaine have really helped people to achieve their "highest good".
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>>I repeat, the drugs are inherently dangerous. But their mere existence does not cause people to kill each other. Oh, there may be the odd case. But it's the fact that they are illegal that makes them valuable enough for dealers to feel they are worth killing over.
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>>It's no different from anything else that people want. Make it illegal, and you create a climate in which ruthless people become rich and even more ruthless.
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>Some things need to be illegal. Those we've been discussing are some of them. In no way should we even be contemplating unleashing more devastation on our citizens by legalizing more drugs than we already have. I've seen too much of the carnage caused by people using and selling this stuff.

I'm not disagreeing. I'm just pointing out that when you start talking about murder and drug dealers, you are no longer talking about what the drugs themselves do to people, you are instead talking about the atmosphere created by the fact that they are illegal.

So, maybe in a list of which drugs are the most dangerous, it is not entirely wrong to omit the murders etc, since those aren't really attributable to the drugs.