Including legal drugs makes this interesting and provocative. More people are harmed by legal than illegal drugs now.
Maybe the pope should take on BigPharma.
What many people don’t seem to understand is that outright legalization would not only mean that the traffickers down south would become legitimate businessmen, but that Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, and every beer and rum maker would also be free to produce and market their own “safer” brands.
It is true that many people would just go ahead and kill themselves by drowning in their drug of choice. But things like marijuana - today’s marijuana is not the 60’s weed - cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine as well designer drugs and of course, diverted pharmaceuticals used inappropriately create their own demand, enslaving their users forever.
Put in another way: entropy happens, and it will happen whether we attempt to control it or not. But we don’t have to help entropy, not when a human soul is at stake.
+JMJ,
~Theo