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In reply to the discussion: It's his position against the drug war that makes Ron Paul so volcanically controversial here on DU. [View all]phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Regulated does not mean illegal.
And I'm a lot more worried about a pharmaceutical company putting out an irresponsibly tested medication for diabetes or arthritis and people take it and end up dying from some unforeseen side effect. In his view, the government wouldn't do any of that kind of oversight work.
Alcohol is a drug. But you can't kill yourself from taking a shot of whiskey, unless you already have cirrhosis or some other liver problem that makes you alcohol intolerant. Use some common fucking sense here. Long term alcohol abuse and drunk driving and stuff like that is a problem, but heroine is still way worse. You can kill yourself on one bad dose of heroine. You can easily kill yourself. You can more easily die from attempting to quit heroine. Its way worse and thus should be illegal. Any drug of that nature should be illegal to sell, under penalty of prison.
Libertarian drug policy is just as insane as the zero tolerance, war on drugs nonsense. People would fucking die because of it. Keep it the fuck out of my country.