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What are the pros and cons of legalizing all drugs?
Should all drugs be legalised? This entry maps the debate over full drug legalisation, setting out the opposing positions that legalising all drugs would benefit society, and that it would harm it.
Position 1 of 2
Read this position →Legalizing all drugs will benefit society
The position that ending prohibition outright would leave society better off, holding that criminalisation is itself the source of the black market, the unsafe supply and the mass imprisonment it was meant to prevent, and that regulation would replace them.
Position 2 of 2
Read this position →Legalizing all drugs will harm society
The position that removing legal prohibition would increase the damage drugs do, holding that legal availability raises consumption and addiction, that regulation cannot contain the resulting harm, and that the deterrent effect of the law is worth keeping.