Encyclopedia of Opinion
Question
What are the pros and cons of legalizing all drugs?
Position‹2 of 2

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.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. Legal availability increases use, and the harm scales with the using population
  2. A legal market cannot be designed for substances whose ordinary use is the harm