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An Argument for the Legalization of Drugs, Based on John Stuart Mills' "Revised
Harm Principle"
An Argument for the Legalization of Drugs, Based on John Stuart Mills' "Revised
Harm Principle"
The question of whether or not to legalize certain drugs has been
debated for decades. Although opponents have thus f ....
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for the buyer. This can have a devastating effect on his family, his lifestyle,
and his career. The effects on society as a whole include more crowded jail
cells (prompting politicians to demand more jails be built), higher taxes to
support these jails, and the loss, or at least diminution, of a productive
citizen. In order to buy drugs illegally, the user may be forced to expose
himself to the fringes of the criminal world--something he would never do under
any other circumstances. If drugs were legalized, the criminal stigma would be
removed from their purchase, pos ....
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