One of the common proposed solutions to the issue of drugs is that they should be legalised. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to briefly look at some of the arguments that are used in favour of drug legalisation over the course of a couple of days or weeks in a series of posts - identifying each of the main arguments individually and discussing them.
I want to look at the main issues surrounding each of the arguments for drug legalisation and explore the strength of each point.
This is not an exercise in “proving” one point or another - to be perfectly honest my current view is that both drug hardliners and harm reduction theorists have some pretty flawed reasoning for applying their respective views accross a large segment of society.
I simply want it to be a mapping out of the argument and what I hope to be a reasonable assessment of each minor point - kind of like a mini map within the context of Rehabology.
So, stand by and feel free to tell me I am an idiot, a genius or anything in between.