PHIL 120W Chapter Notes -Walter Block, Alternative Medicine, Antiemetic

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Stats say that alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than others; it"s only because they are legal and accessible. Imagine what it would be like if hard drugs were legal. Marijuana is probably the softest illegal drug out. Legalize it: yes, it is hard on your lungs, probably less than cigarettes (carcinogens). But you don"t smoke 20 joints a day like with cigarettes: medicinal qualities, holistic health, benefits for cancer, crohn"s disease, etc, anti-inflammatory, anti-emetic, etc properties. Utilitarian considerations: costs with current drug laws prison, enforcement, etc, profits for drug traffickers equals ~-50 billion per year violent crime! If it was legalized, it would free resources, reduce illegal drug crime, etc. Drugs legal = cost = use = health = non-drug crime. However, this is uncertain so therefore we should keep our current drug laws. Marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol are about the same. Heroin, cocaine, and other hard drugs (i. e. , ecstasy or crack) are not the same as them.

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