>>>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.
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>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.
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>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.

In an esoteric analysis, I guess you might be right. In reality, I don't see how you can separate them. Then again, I won't hardly even take an aspirin, so you might guess my feelings on drugs.