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Originally Posted by noidea
the people taking them and won't harm anyone aside them, smoking should be forbidden and taking drugs allowed IMO And I'm not saying this because I support drugs, because I don't, I just support freedom.
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Are you really serious? To say drugs don't harm anyone other than the person who uses it...
I'm sorry to say, but it's a demonstration of great ignorance over the matter. Legal or illegal, drugs destroy families and can have devastating consequences, not only on the individual who does it. In society, things are deemed illegal if they cause harm to it. Drugs do that. If we were to support freedom just for the sake of supporting it, I'd pretty much say people should be free to kill other people. That would be "freedom" but it would be wrong. A world where everyone is free to do whatever the heck they want is not an ideal world, because someone's freedom can mean taking over somebody else's freedom and this is the reasons why laws exist, so, no, people shouldn't ever be free to do whatever they feel like doing, there's a limit to that.
The majority of drugs cause severe judgement and behavior impairment. When such people do that and go out driving vehicles, or they are carrying something that can cause ahrm to another person (a gun, a knife) they're more likely to commit an accident or a criminal act, because the drug will definitely impair their decisive capabilities. To say such a thing only affects the person who does them is seriously out of reality. A lot of the criminal who rob and kill here often do it after they drug themselves so that they can have the courage to commit the act. It's also a serious public health problem. we are already facing the ocnsequences of free alcohol and tobacco use, what to say if we were to let everything else free.
I'm glad Japan is strict with this matter and doesn't take it lightly. (though there are hypocritical things they do that I don't like, like the Ami suzuki and Koda Kumi matters). Other countries should definitely follow Japan's example when it comes to drugs
