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[–]robo1p 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'll take a contrary position to many here. Ban it. Banning degeneracy does work. Even 'muh prohibition' caused alcohol consumption rates to dip so low that they only 'recovered' in the last decade. What about countries with low drug abuse rates? People like to claim portugal fixed it by legalizing all drugs, when in fact their drug useage rates are still shit. The countries without big drug abuse problems are Singapore and Japan, which are super harsh. I see no reason not to apply it to other aspects of life.

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That is basically my position, harsh prohibitions have generally been shown to work. I think bans only fail when they're in name only and not seriously enforced, like many of the western drug use laws.