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Originally Posted by Stuart C
OK. The government makes no money from drugs. If that was the reason they are banned, do you not think they would just legalise and tax them?
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people will gorge on a couple of allowed pleasures. if everything were allowed, I doubt people would be that bothered by it all. take the English who go to Amsterdam as an example. They go crazy in the coffee shops, where as the Dutch around them are not too bothered about smoking a spliff. they can take it or leave it because it's always available.
If you control the content and the flow, then you have more power over the effects. like a water dam. all that water is there which we could just drink, but by directing and controlling the flow, it's much more effective at being useful in other ways at the same time (ie, creating electricity, increasing land area, etc.). In this case, tobacco and alcohol are seen by many as more a dependency than a recreational thing. their own dependency on the drug is hightened because they are effectively only drip fed those 2 'pleasures'. if there were more available to them, the appeal and in some cases, the need, would be much less.