So if it's OK to legalize (or not) based on danger, what's wrong with a danger scale?
I never said that. In fact, my point is just the opposite.
I have no problem with a person saying that a drug is dangerous. Or that a drug is not dangerous. Or that one drug is more dangerous than another drug.
"what's wrong with a danger scale?"
When it comes to drug legalization, however, I'm saying that a "danger scale" is irrelevant. Using such a scale says non-dangerous drugs are legal and very dangerous drugs are illegal, and somewhere in between we go from legal to illegal based on some arbitrary danger point.
For starters, this method would make the drugs used in chemotherapy illegal. Also, it ignores other factors, such as those listed in my post #86. It attempts to quantify something (danger) that is subjective as it's sole criterion.
Every time you post that "alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, yet alcohol is legal and marijuana is not", you're using a "danger scale" that I will not recognize.