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Humans indulge in activities that alter both the content and the experience of their own consciousness. Drugs are a means for achieving a number of particular, often recreational, changes in conscious experience. However, drugs are also a large contributor to, and facilitator of, human suffering and health problems. The best health advice anyone can give to most people most of the time regarding recreational drug use is this: “Do not use drugs”. Many people however, including me, do not find this advice particularly attractive, or even sensible. Assuming that a person wants to enjoy the mind-altering effects of psychoactive substances, two questions follows: which drugs are dangerous to use? And, more importantly - how can one know which drugs are more dangerous than others? The answer to both questions, of course, can be found through the illuminating lens of the scientific method.  

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Legalize drugs, regulate them, tax them, distribute clean needles. End drug wars. End the spread of disease. End black markets. End killing, suffering, and wasted money.

The anti-drugs laws do not work. Anybody, even as young as elementary or middle school students, has relatively easy access to a wide variety of drugs. If it’s not working, fix it.

And why not make money off the those already doing drugs? Taxes.

The United States of America wastes money and lives everyday fighting our “drug war,” but legalized drugs would actually turn those drugs into a profit.

Land of the free? Then how can you tell me what substances I can or cannot posses?

Legalize all drugs.