People's children become addicts now, thats the whole point - criminializing drugs isnt working, because they are still so easy for anyone to get. However, the quality is poorer, they cost more and often drive people to crime, and violent and organised crime becomes involved in their distribution.
A child should not be allowed to inject heroin anymore than they should be allowed to drink vodka - the fact is in the real world it is very hard to prevent them from doing either if they are determined to.
A consenting adult should be free to do anything to themselves that they wish, the state and the community does not have the right to tell me I cannot harm myself.
There is also no sane argument I can understand against prostitution being legal - again, it is widespread and the laws against it dont work - legalising it makes it safer, protects the people in it (by installing health and safety standards) and removing violent pimps from the equation.
If two free and consenting individuals wish to exchange money for sexual services, why in the hell does the state have the right to tell them they cannot? A woman (or a male prostitute) owns her own body, and she can sell it to anyone she wants to.
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