Alcohol and tobacco already cause serious problems for society; how would legalising more drugs be beneficial?
Legalising drugs is the best way to reduce the harm they cause to society. Handing over the production and supply of dangerous drugs to criminal gangs does not protect us from the problems these drugs present; it actively increases them. The problems we face with alcohol and tobacco are in part due to mistakes that have been made in regulating or, as in most cases, failing to regulating them. Both of these drugs have been subjected to decades of aggressive marketing, advertising and sponsorship and the regulation that does exist for these drugs is weak and rarely enforced. Prosecutions for selling alcohol to drunk people or tobacco to underage children are rare. Unlike illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco cause very few problems at production and supply level. Their production and supply is largely free from violence and they do not have the same corrupting affect on government producer and transit countries. Effective regulation of tobacco (including recent bans on advertising and smoki
Legalising drugs is the best way to reduce the harm they cause to society. Handing over the production and supply of dangerous drugs to criminal gangs does not protect us from the problems these drugs present; it actively increases them. The problems we face with alcohol and tobacco are in part due to mistakes that have been made in regulating or, as in most cases, failing to regulatethem. Both of these drugs have been subjected to decades of aggressive marketing, advertising and sponsorship and the regulation that does exist for these drugs is weak and rarely enforced. Prosecutions for selling alcohol to drunk people or tobacco to underage children are rare. Unlike illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco cause very few problems at production and supply level. Their production and supply is largely free from violence and they do not have the same corrupting affect on government producer and transit countries. Effective regulation of tobacco (including recent bans on advertising and smoking
