Heroin is illegal because it allows the government to take unprecedented action to curtail rights, these actions to curtail these rights (no knock raids for example) seem to be supported by many Americans of both major parties due to misinformation about the actions taken by those who run the black market, the same black market created by the very laws that were supposedly made to "protect" people.
If you want to take away the power of a black market you regulate and decriminalize the items most often sold in the black market. There is no other way. We have a great example of this with our prohibition experiment back in the 20s. Nobody is shooting people in the streets to protect territories where they sell people alcohol any longer.
Last edited by Damocles; 02-18-2018 at 01:50 PM.
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- -- Aristotle
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- -- The Buddha
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