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I particularly support legalization to full extent of any recreative psychoactive drugs, even ones deemed evil. Drug users are often more vulnerable to external factors not related to the drug itself, such as bad drug quality (drugs mixed with elements that are way more harmful to health), violence and diseases, which happens just because the illegal status. Take crack for example, cheap and highly addictive. Users are more likely to die from external causes such as homicide or HIV infection than die from overdose [1].

Legalization would greatly reduce deaths caused by external factors and would free the government to actually take care of the addicts as they actually need.

On the other hand, antibiotics, which should be controlled tightly, gets overlooked.

1 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516...

Edit: formatting.

Edit II: typos.

Edit III: pointing out antibiotics getting overlooked.



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