What’s the greatest evil drug prohibition or drug addiction?

kNOTaLIAwyR
#1. May 30th, 2009, at 8:08 PM.

Drug Addiction – Endangerment and Burden to Society

hooper5446
#2. May 30th, 2009, at 11:51 PM.

Who cares? Let’s get high.

gandalf
#3. June 3rd, 2009, at 12:21 AM.

Both are not evils. Drug addiction is not an evil it is a problem. If drug prohibition is lifted then prices come down and every1 will be able to buy ,now only those with enough money can get it. In turn if prohibition is lifted and people get it freely then more people get addicted and demand increases resulting in prices rising and people who are addicted and cannot buy them resort to violence, only then there will be more drug related violence than now. Drug related violence increases if prohibition is lifted.

Stoic fool
#4. June 4th, 2009, at 4:21 AM.

I believe the greater issue is prohibition. Whatever the intention of legislating what substances people can or cannot use, the primary affect is the denial of choice. Most of it is meant well, but it still amounts to the limitation of peoples rights. Most now illegal drugs were at one point legal and in common usage. For them, it wasn’t their effects on people that was their downfall, it was that their usage was considered sinful or distasteful.