Why Should a Drug be Illegal or Legal? Part Two: Harm to Others

Lone Candle
17 min readMay 30, 2022

I’ve investigated the self-harm of different drugs and determined that the self-harm isn’t so great to ban the drugs I looked at. At least when only considering self-harm, I concluded that we should legalize drugs as dangerous as heroin, and let freedom reign!

But what about harm to others? Is the harm to others great enough to justify banning?

The drug-caused harms to others can be split into a few categories: harm to others that the drug induces a user to directly commit, harm done by impairment…

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