“Why again do the libertarians want to legalize this poison, increasing the available supply and lowering the price?”
1. There is no Constitutional authority for the Feds to make it illegal.
2. Making it illegal inevitably creates a flourish in black market run by really, really bad people.
3. Laws can’t change human nature. A certain percentage of the population will ingest mind altering substances regardless of its legality.
4. Legalizing it will actually make it more difficult for minors to obtain it.
Those will do for a start.
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“Making it illegal inevitably creates a flourish in black market run by really, really bad people.”
1. Making it legal would open up an even larger black market due to the acceptance of the drugs. And the bad people can always make it cheaper and more deadly
“Laws can’t change human nature. A certain percentage of the population will ingest mind altering substances regardless of its legality.”
2. An even larger percentage of the population would become addicted if they were legal.
“Legalizing it will actually make it more difficult for minors to obtain it.”
3. see #1
The more people that are exposed to addictive drugs, the more people will become addicts and more people will die from overdose.
Funny, when you read the history of the legal opium trade in China not a single one of those things is true which is why the government moved to outlaw it only to have the Brits use their military to force the Chinese to keep it legal.