Drugs fuck with your mind. That's the main issue. They make you do things a normal being usually don't do.
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Drugs don't fuck your mind.
Users fuck their mind when they use drugs without responsibility.
I know/knew SO MANY drug addicts (most are dead by now).
ALL OF THEM had a fucked up childhood (sexual abuse, No father, alcoholic father, beatings, you name it).
You can't ban drugs (there are drugs even in totally controlled environments like prisons).
You can just stop criminalizing them, so price goes down, quality goes up, Cartels loose their selling point.
A drug addict will take anything, when all is banned they just take alcohol.
They all have a problem BEVORE they go drugs, they take drugs to make life bearable.
It's not on people to decide what other people do with their own body.
Just stop robbing people ('taxes') and redistributing it to 'people in need'.
Remembe when cocaine was still legal? Remember when that stuff was inside CocaCola?
They all gone mad as hell, right? Oh wait - they didn't.
They just bought some Coke and Heroin ('Cough Sirup') and enjoyed live.
I agree. However, Ross Ulbricht knew he was breaking the law in his country. He should have either moved to another country where his website would be considered legal or refrained from doing it altogether. That was my point at the start of this conversation.
Well, I don't think Ross signed a contract or anything.
These "laws" he broke are worth nothing, they are imposed one-sided from "the government" and you can't opt out.
This is totalitarian.
He is a native american, born in texas. Why should he move?
Censoring a marketplace is the same as censoring free speech.